History YMMV / StarTrekVoyagerS4E16Retrospect

* ValuesDissonance: In light of the [=#MeToo=] movement, this episode's moral that believing abuse allegations without waiting for proof ''isn't'' always the right thing to do has been seen as aging poorly. Not helping is that the story is confusingly-written and can seem like a CluelessAesop: it's never clear what exactly Seven's flashbacks were, if they didn't happen.

* ValuesDissonance: In light of the "Me Too" movement, this episode's moral that believing abuse allegations without waiting for proof ''isn't'' always the right thing to do has been seen as aging poorly. Not helping is that the story is confusingly-written and can seem like a CluelessAesop: it's never clear what exactly Seven's flashbacks were, if they didn't happen.
* ValuesResonance: ...However, the episode was at least intended to be an exploration of how much damage the flawed idea of "recovered memories" can do. In the 1980s and 1990s a lot of harm was unintentionally done by social workers and mental health professionals who were not yet familiar with the phenomenon of false memories. The Doctor's attempt to recover the memories creates false ones that not only cause the death of the man accused, they do very real damage to Seven as well by making her experience the emotional burnout of an assault that there's strong evidence never happened. It also illustrates the core legal principles of due process and presumption of innocence (the flip side of the "Me Too" coin), and what can happen if those principles are weakened: in this case a (possibly) innocent man driven to ruin and suicide by what he perceives as a witch hunt.

* UnfortunateImplications: As Website/SFDebris points out in his [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/v885.php review]], the episode's focus on the Doctor forces Seven's trauma (whether from a real assault or false memories) into the background, never to be addressed.

* ValuesResonance: ...However, the episode was at least intended to be an exploration of how much damage the flawed idea of "recovered memories" can do. In the 1980s and 1990s a lot of harm was unintentionally done by social workers and mental health professionals who were not yet familiar with the phenomenon of false memories. The Doctor's attempt to recover the memories creates false ones that not only cause the death of the man accused, they do very real damage to Seven as well by making her experience the emotional burnout of an assault that there's strong evidence never happened.

* ValuesDissonance: This episode ended up ''badly'' on the wrong side of history, with its message that the Doctor was wrong to trust the word of someone who claimed to have been "violated" in an obvious rape metaphor. Especially since it's never clear what exactly Seven's flashbacks were, if they didn't happen.
* ValuesResonance: ...On the other hand, this episode ended up ''solidly'' on the right side of history with its demonstration of how much damage the flawed idea of "recovered memories" can do. The Doctor's attempt to recover the memories creates false ones that not only cause the death of the man accused, they do very real damage to Seven as well by making her experience the emotional burnout of an assault that there's strong evidence never happened.

* ValuesResonance: This episode ended up ''solidly'' on the right side of history with it's demonstration of how much damage the flawed idea of "recovered memories" can do. The Doctor's attempt to recover the memories creates false ones that not only cause the death of the man accused, they do very real damage to Seven as well by making her experience the emotional burnout of an assault that there's strong evidence never happened.

* UnfortunateImplications: As SFDebris points out in his [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/v885.php review]], the episode's focus on the Doctor forces Seven's trauma (whether from a real assault or false memories) into the background, never to be addressed.

* ValuesResonance: This episode ended up ''solidly'' on the right side of history with it's demonstration of how much damage the flawed idea of "recovered memories" can do. The Doctor's attempt to recover the memories creates false ones that not only cause harm to the man accused, they do very real damage to Seven as well by making her experience the emotional burnout of an assault that evidently never happened.

* ValuesDissonance: This episode ended up ''badly'' on the wrong side of history, with its message that the Doctor was wrong to trust the word of someone who claimed to have been "violated" in an obvious rape metaphor. Especially since it's never clear what exactly Seven's flashbacks were, if they didn't happen.