Workforce (Star Trek: Voyager)

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"Workforce"
A brainwashed Janeway
Episode no.	162 & 163
Prod. code	262 & 263
Airdate	February 21, 2001 February 28, 2001
Writer(s)	Kenneth Biller Bryan Fuller
Director	Allan Kroeker (part I) Roxann Dawson (part II)
Guest star(s)	James Read as Jaffen Don Most as Kadan John Aniston as Quarran Ambassador Iona Morris as Umali Tom Virtue as Supervisor Michael Behrens as Coyote Robert Joy as Yerid Jay Harrington as Ravoc Majel Barrett as Narrator
Year	2377
Stardate	54584.3
Episode chronology
Previous	"The Void"
Next	"Human Error"

"Workforce" is a two-part episode from the seventh and final season of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager.

1 Plot
- 1.1 Part I
- 1.2 Part II
2 Notes
3 External links

[edit] Plot

[edit] Part I

Janeway and Jaffen become very friendly.

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 from a short mission away to find the ship empty and the Emergency Command Hologram in charge. The ECH explains the situation. The whole crew has been forced off the ship and taken to the planet nearby.

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] Notes

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The story of this episode shares significant plot elements with an episode of Stargate SG-1 called Beneath the Surface, which aired a year before this episode. Both, however, borrow from the classic film Metropolis.