Star Trek: Picard – Season 1, Episode 3: “The End is the Beginning”

Synopsis: Retired Admiral Picard devises a plan to find Bruce Maddox. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what it looks like when the conscious ego, believing that it is correct, acts without acknowledging bits of unconscious material. In “The End is the Beginning” Retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard asks a former crewmember and… Continue reading Star Trek: Picard – Season 1, Episode 3: “The End is the Beginning”

Star Trek: Picard – Season 1, Episode 2: “Maps and Legends”

Synopsis: Retired Admiral Picard devises a plan to find Dahj’s twin sister. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how a cultural complex is created. “Maps and Legends” begins with a flashback to the day that Utopia Planitia on Mars was destroyed by an attack believed to have been made by compromised synthetic… Continue reading Star Trek: Picard – Season 1, Episode 2: “Maps and Legends”

Star Trek: Picard – Season 1, Episode 1: “Remembrance”

Synopsis: Retired Admiral Picard is interviewed on the anniversary of the Romulan supernova and then visited by a young woman who thinks he will keep her safe. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory. The idea that just as an acorn has everything inside it to become an oak… Continue reading Star Trek: Picard – Season 1, Episode 1: “Remembrance”

Star Trek: Short Treks – “Q & A”

Synopsis: On his first day aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, Ensign Spock gets stuck in a turbolift with the vessel’s First Officer, Number One. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the conscious ego may try to suppress bits of material from the unconscious with which it is uncomfortable. In “Q & A,”… Continue reading Star Trek: Short Treks – “Q & A”

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episodes 13 and 14: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I and Part II”

Synopsis: Commander Burnham and Discovery’s crew come to understand what needs to be done to save all sentient life in the galaxy. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s later understanding of the collective unconscious, that it is something that humans are a part of and that it connects… Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episodes 13 and 14: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I and Part II”

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 8: “If Memory Serves”

Synopsis: Commander Burnham takes Lt. Spock to Talos IV for healing. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how sometimes the conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of unconscious material into itself through the use of archetypal Trickster energy. In “If Memory Serves” Commander Michael Burnham and her brother, Lt. Spock, arrive on… Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 8: “If Memory Serves”

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 7: “Light and Shadow”

Synopsis: Commander Burnham travels to Vulcan to find Lt. Spock. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory, the idea that just as an acorn has everything inside it to become an oak tree, we all have inner daimons that have all the information we need to become who we… Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 7: “Light and Shadow”

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 6: “The Sound of Thunder”

Synopsis: A signal from the Red Angel appears over Kaminar and Commander Saru goes back to his homeworld. This episode can be seen as an illustration of a tale told by the nineteenth century Hindu mystic Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa of the tiger and the goats. A tiger was born in a herd of goats and… Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 6: “The Sound of Thunder”

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 5: “Saints of Imperfection”

Synopsis: Ensign Tilly is taken into the mycelial network and the Discovery crew go in it to bring her back. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s later understanding of the collective unconscious, that it is something that humans are a part of and that connects all living things.… Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 5: “Saints of Imperfection”

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 4: “An Obol for Charon”

Synopsis: While traveling to try to locate Lt. Spock’s shuttle an immense sphere stops Discovery and impacts Commander Saru. This episode can be seen as an illustration of projection and the dropping of that projection, which can be one step in the process of the rational conscious ego to acknowledging and integrating bits of unconscious… Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 4: “An Obol for Charon”