YMMV / Star Trek Voyager S 4 E 16 Retrospect

• Harsher in Hindsight: Considering how Icheb was butchered for spare parts in Star Trek: Picard, Seven got off incredibly easy here by comparison — possibly even laying the foundations for a nasty case of Survivor Guilt...
• Values Dissonance: 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 Clueless Aesop.
• Values Resonance: ...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 some evidence never happened. It also illustrates the core legal principles of due process and presumption of innocence (the flip side of the #MeToo 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.