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If a mate is not available, there are other ways to relieve the effects of the pon farr.

The first is meditation, by means of which the Vulcan must overcome the urge to mate through mental discipline.

The second is violence.

This is seen in the Voyager episode " Blood Fever ", when B ' Elanna Torres and Ensign Vorik fight in the traditional Vulcan manner.

The violence ends the pon farr.

The other option is extreme shock ; in the TOS episode " Amok Time ", Spock believed he had killed James T. Kirk, his " best friend ", thus providing sufficient shock to nullify the effects of pon farr.

When he experienced pon farr, Tuvok of the USS Voyager made use of a holodeck simulation of a temporary mate which resembled his wife.

This holodeck simulation was created because The Doctor was unavailable to administer, as the dialog of the episode suggests, a medicine that he had prepared to help Tuvok overcome the effects of pon farr.

Infection is another mechanism writers have used to induce pon farr in Vulcan characters ( such as T ' Pol in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Bounty ").