"Blood Fever" is wild!
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What's the age difference?
He could be in his 70s, and she could be a teenager, and you wouldn't have to send them back to wardrobe or make up at all.
What's the age difference?
He could be in his 70s, and she could be a teenager, and you wouldn't have to send them back to wardrobe or make up at all.
Sorry: the age difference between who and who?
Vorik was guilty of forcing a psychic link between him and B'Elanna (you can call it rape if you want), causing her to acquire the blood fever herself. But I don't recall him repeatedly threatening to rape her. I've noticed that he kept trying to woo her, except for that moment when he forced that psychic link between them. I also noticed that hardly anyone ever comment on how B'Elanna tried to force herself on Tom. I think the problem with the response with this episode is that many tend judge pon farr and Vulcans on Human terms. And very few seem willing to accept that underneath their "logical" facade, Vulcans are very volatile beings that have great difficulty in dealing with the pon farr.
Rape can mean "without permission" as a bare minimun.
But Vorrick was winding up to raperape her, but he was crazy and thought that she would give him love and consent, maybe even retroactively, if she stopped being a stuck up #itch (it's weird how men in fiction go straight to the B word from flowers and chocolates.)... Or was he just begging a lot? Sexy sexy begging?
Vorrik is crazy.
The hypothetical age difference.
They are probably exactly as old as they look in human years, because Voyager's authors are boring, but B'Elanna could have been 7 and Vorrik could have been 70, and no changes would have been needed to have been made to their wardrobe or make up, because of what we know about their specieses.
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It's interesting that many are still discussing Vorik's interactions with B'Elanna and not her interactions with Tom.
Well B'Elanna's plan to cure her blood fever was to beat Tom unconscious, and walk away.
No one told us that that was a thing.
Until then we only knew about 3 solutions to blood fever...
1.Boff until some one is pregnant.
2. Ritual combat until some one is dead.
3. Meditation.
If this could have been solved by B'Elanna breaking Vorrik's nose in the first act, then Carey could have a friend to join his survivors group.
Considering Vulcans have punch healing as a thing, maybe the beating wasn't even sexual?
I'm not too up on Klingon ageing to be honest, but I thought they probably had a long life span outside of the Vulcans (unless they're killed in battle of course) and might have been comparative with humans too as we seem to be so much alike! 
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I'm not too up on Klingon ageing to be honest, but I thought they probably had a long life span outside of the Vulcans (unless they're killed in battle of course) and might have been comparative with humans too as we seem to be so much alike!
JB
Worf boned the demonstrable beauty K'Ehleyr in season 2. A year later a 5 year old human actor was playing an almost nearly new born baby "Alexander", soon the part was recast again, and a 10 year old human actor was playing a three year old Klingon a year after that. In season 6 of Deep Space Nine, Alexander, an 8 year old Klingon was the weapons officer on Martok's ship played by a 20-something year old.
Meanwhile that punk shit Toral Duras from TNG Redemption, was played by a 30 year old in season 4 of Deep Space Nine.
I would think that Klingons would mature quickly by their nature. A species that survived by fighting would naturally evolve to spend as little time as possible in a small and vulnerable state. And where B'Elanna is concerned, the condition could be recessive, allowing her to live out a normal childhood.
Yes I do remember Alexander and his different actors playing the role but I assumed that the time gap was a lot larger than it was for us, say two years for us was four to five for them?
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In a novel i think, they mentioned Kor still alive in TNG times. It went something like this...
"So very few Klingons die of natural causes, that not only is their natural life expectancy unknown, but some suspect that they may be immortal."
"So very few Klingons die of natural causes, that not only is their natural life expectancy unknown, but some suspect that they may be immortal."
