>>(b) Is the anti-pon farr drug readily available to Vulcans in
>>the UF-verse? Or if not, why not? It seems like the sort of thing
>>they'd embrace with great (yet decorous and logically-justified)
>>relief.
>
>It's around, but as you may gather from its lack of a name (well, I'm
>sure it has one, a long and complicated chemical name which Gryphon
>cannot remember), it's not something that gets talked about a lot.
>Reproduction is a biological duty, after all, and ducking the
>responsibility in this fashion is a bit... wimpy. Not that a Surakite
>would ever put it in those terms, but that's what it amounts to. :)

I would very much expect that the drug mostly exists as a 'failsafe', in case the plak-tow can't be broken by the usual means, perhaps because of the death of the intended mate before the ceremony, but after the fever has hit.