Category: Star Trek: Voyager

Synopsis: The crew of Voyager find a micro-sized wormhole that allows them to communicate with the Alpha Quadrant. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung calls a complex, which is one way that the Logos-driven rational conscious ego can access bit of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious.… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 1, Episode 7: “Eye of the Needle”

Synopsis: Voyager’s crew mistakenly identifies an alien life form as a nebula. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what happens when we privilege the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, and its needs above those of the Eros-driven irrational unconscious and the messages it sends us. In “The Cloud” there is a direct reference… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 1, Episode 6: “The Cloud”

Synopsis: Aliens desperate for survival steal Neelix’s lungs. This episode can be seen as a confrontation between the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, here embodied in Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew, and the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, represented here by the Vidiians. In “Phage” while surveying a rogue planetoid, which might have deposits of raw dilithium… Continue reading Star Trek Voyager – Season 1, Episode 5: “Phage”

Synopsis: The crew of Voyager investigate an explosion that destroyed all organic life on a planet. If the first two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager can be interpreted as an analogy of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s analytical psychological concept of the union of opposites then this episode, much like the third episode illustrate how this… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 1, Episode 4: “Time and Again”

Synopsis: Captain Janeway and B’Elanna Torres work together to solve an issue affecting the Voyager and her crew. If the first two episodes can be interpreted as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s analytical psychological concept of the union of opposites, as when bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious are integrated into… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 1, Episode 3: “Parallax”

Synopsis: Captain Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager are sent to find a Maquis ship that has disappeared. This episode can be interpreted through the analytical psychology concept of the union of opposites. Carl (C. G.) Jung developed this theory in order to describe what happens when bits of material from the Eros-driven… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2: “Caretaker, Part I and Part II”