Workforce (Voyager episode)
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| Star Trek: VOY episode | |
| "Workforce" | |
 A brainwashed Janeway. |
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| Episode no. | Season 7, Episodes 16 & 17 |
|---|---|
| Prod. code | 262 & 263 |
| Airdate | February 21 & 28, 2001 |
| Writer(s) | Kenneth Biller & Bryan Fuller |
| Director | Allan Kroeker (I) & Roxann Dawson (II) |
| Year | 2372 |
| Stardate | 54518.2 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Prophecy" |
| Next | "Human Error" |
Workforce was a two-part episode broadcast of the seventh season of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, first airing in the winter of 2001.
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[edit] Plot summary
[edit] Part I
Kathryn Janeway happily shows up for her first day of work at an energy plant.
She befriends a man named Jaffen and soon runs afoul of Annika Hansen, the efficiency monitor. Tuvok, a fellow employee, acts weirdly and claims that they don't belong there. A prominent doctor diagnoses Tuvok with dysphoria syndrome and begins treatment.
Tom Paris manages to get himself fired from the energy plant even though there is a labor shortage. He takes a job at a bar, and befriends B'Elanna Torres, a pregnant woman who works at the energy plant.
Meanwhile, Chakotay and Harry Kim return to Voyager to find the ship empty and the ECH in charge. The ECH explains the situation.
Chakotay has himself surgically altered to look different and goes down to the planet and abducts Torres, but he himself doesn't escape.
[edit] Part II
With Neelix's help, Torres begins to remember her life as a starship engineer. On the planet, Chakotay has a tougher time overcoming Janeway's skepticism at his story that she's a starship captain.
A young doctor begins to become suspicious that so many people of the same species have dysphoria syndrome and that almost all of them got jobs at the energy plant. Annika Hansen begins taking Tuvok's rants seriously, and with help from a detective, uncovers the plot.
The Voyager crew returns to the ship.
[edit] Guest stars
- John Aniston as Quarren Ambassador
- Michael Behrens as Coyote
- Robert Mammana as Security Officer #1
- Iona Morris as Umali
- Don Most as Kadan
- James Read as Jaffen
- Akemi Royer as Med Tech
- Tom Virtue as Supervisor
- Matthew James Williamson as Security Officer #2
