Data strives to feel emotions, and to understand what it's like to be human.Jean-Luc Picard deals with his assimilation (it's a major plot point in First Contact) and the death of his brother and nephew.Worf struggles with being the first Klingon in Starfleet.Julian Bashir comes to grips with being outed as a genetically modified person.
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Star Trek is full of plots that deal with mental health. I can't recall any other episode which specifically deals with mental health. Is there any reference to a character struggling with a long-term mental illness that is openly discussed on the show?
Though slightly disappointed that she sort of "magically" recovers.
Are there other episodes of VOY or any other ST that explicitly deal with mental health/depression/suicide? I was very impressed with how the topic was handled, specifically that grief can cause these symptoms and that they can be handled. However, I can't recall any other episode which specifically deals with mental health. These topics were not widely shown on TV at the time, and as usual, Star Trek was way ahead of its time in showing the effects of mental health. The doctor diagnoses her with clinical depression. I recently re watched S5E03 of Star Trek: Voyager ("Extreme Risk") which shows B'Elanna Torres self-harming to deal with the trauma of discovering that many of her friends were massacred in a battle back in the Alpha Quadrant. Back when the series was produced, mental health was not as widely discussed as it is today.