Category: Star Trek: Voyager

Synopsis: Voyager is attacked by the Kazon-Nistrim forces, which have aligned with Seska, the former Maquis member who was also once part of Voyager’s crew. This episode can be seen as an illustration of one of the archetypal relationships that James Hillman wrote about extensively. That of the need of the puer, or eternal youth,… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 11: “Maneuvers”

Synopsis: Voyager comes across a colony of Ocampa on a space array and they lead Voyager and her crew to the mate of the Caretaker that sent them into the Delta Quadrant. While there are a lot of things that can be viewed from a depth psychological perspective in this episode, I am going to… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 10: “Cold Fire”

Synopsis: An away team on a moon finds a symbol inscribed into the ground which has significance to Commander Chakotay. While there are a lot of things that can be viewed from a depth psychological perspective in this episode, I am going to explore the idea that by healing one’s own psyche, by making it… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 9: “Tattoo”

Synopsis: A telepathic alien is able to control the minds of the Voyager crew by letting them see and live their hidden thoughts. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego has the ability to confront bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious through what Carl (C.… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 8: “Persistence of Vision”

Synopsis: Lt. Paris and Mr. Neelix are sent on a mission together to gather food, come across an alien hatchling, and resolve the issues that have come between them. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego must confront bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious through… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 7: “Parturition”

Synopsis: Voyager comes in contact with a spacial disturbance ring which reconfigures the structure of the ship. In this episode if Voyager can be seen as a physical manifestation of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, outer space as the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, then the spacial distortion ring that the vessel comes in contact with can… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 6: “Twisted”

Synopsis: Ensign Kim wakes up in a reality in which he is not on Voyager. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what James Hillman calls the acorn theory. The idea that just as within each acorn there is all the information it will need to become a tree, within each of us… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 5: “Non Sequitur”

Synopsis: When Voyager encounters a swarm of space-borne life forms, their energetic vapor causes Kes’s internal biological clock to prepare her for motherhood. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what in his later works Carl (C. G.) Jung would call the theory of the unus mundus. The idea that everything in the… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 4: “Elogium”

Synopsis: Voyager’s Emergency Medical Holographic Program is activated and the doctor finds himself alone on the ship. Or is he? This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung would call Trickster energy. Experiencing this type of energy can be very challenging for the Logos-driven rational conscious ego because it… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 3: “Projections”

Synopsis: Commander Chakotay is in a shuttlecraft performing a ritual to honor the anniversary of his father’s death when he is confronted by a young Kazon. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what James Hillman would call the relationship between the archetypes of the Senex, the wise old man or the king,… Continue reading Star Trek Voyager – Season 2, Episode 2: “Initiations”