I can understand in a "#MeToo" movement can be wrong, but at least tries to show a complicated idea.
Now, Blood Fever presents rape with fetish ideas, first, the Vulcan tries to do a forced Pon Farr, that rape attempt has no punishment, I mean, Worf was complained for following his traditions, but Vulcans seems to be safe of any complain or repercussion of the ship. I know the idea is of being understable with chemical disbalances, but I was expecting at least one saying "that is not excuse".
Then, almost episode is the sexual tension of Torres with Paris because she got affected by the Pon Farr, and she is like "Stop ignoring me, I want to have sex with you".
Tuvok, pharaprasing, order to: Tom Paris, to laid with B'ellana Torres, "or she gonna die" that porn-plot is delivered with a serious tone quote. Then the vulcan cames back to fight for mating porpuses.
Were the writers horny when they made this up? At least the episode end with Borg drone, giving some plot tension.
My question is, how "Blood Fever" is not as complained as "Retrospect" episode?
And also, sorry my bad english.
EDIT: Oh, and I forget there are aliens in the cave, because it was more of a pretext of sexual stuff.
Retrospect felt ickier to me when I watched it, but then I learned that at the time there was a hack psychologist who used to put false memories into women's minds and convince them they were abused, and the episode was about that. It doesn't make it good, but it helps a bit. Although time certainly hasn't been kind to it and for good reason.
As for Blood Fever, it's pretty bad, but I was glad that Vorik, in choosing someone strong, (inadvertently?) chose someone who could fight him off. Pon Farr really does imply horrible things about the Vulcans. There have been attempts to fix it in beta canon, and I think Blood Fever tries to fix it a little in the alpha canon (for example, nobody had to die this time, contrary to what was said in Amok Time).