Workforce
- Episode aired Feb 21, 2001
- TV-PG
- 43m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
1.9K
YOUR RATING
Almost the entire Voyager crew has been abducted and brainwashed to serve as workers in a severely short-handed industrial alien society.Almost the entire Voyager crew has been abducted and brainwashed to serve as workers in a severely short-handed industrial alien society.Almost the entire Voyager crew has been abducted and brainwashed to serve as workers in a severely short-handed industrial alien society.
Matthew J. Williamson
- Security Officer #2
- (as Matt Williamson)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe story for this two-part episode bears striking similarities to the Stargate SG-1 (1997) episode, Beneath the Surface (2000), which aired a few months earlier. Both are inspired by the silent film Metropolis (1927).
- GoofsWhen Neelix shows B'Elanna around her quarters, trying to help her remember, the bat'leth hanging on the wall is not the one given to her by the Klingons in a previous episode. The one hanging resembles Worf's bat'leth.
- Quotes
Harry Kim: I'm still feeling kinda queasy from that nectar.
The Doctor: I treated you days ago!
Harry Kim: Whatever you did hasn't worked. Maybe all those command subroutines are compromising your medical abilities.
The Doctor: Maybe all that sarcasm is compromising your natural charm.
- ConnectionsReferenced in After Trek: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (2017)
Featured review
A creative way to increase your workforce.
When Chakotay, Kim and Neelix return to Voyager after a mission, they cannot find the ship at first. It's been hidden and heavily damaged--with the Doctor in command and all the crew gone! The Doctor explains what has transpired. Shortly after the three left for their mission, the ship struck a space mine that flooded the ship with radiation. The crew had to abandon ship or die. Then, ships came to scavenge Voyager but the Doctor (acting as Captain) was able to evade them until the three crewmen returned.
Here's the weird part. The crew were rescued and given drugs to destroy their old identities. Now they are workers at some giant refinery- type plant with no recollection of Voyager! So, it's up to the remaining crew to sneak onto this nasty planet and secret the crew back to Voyager and deprogram them. When the show ends, however, a mission to extract B'Elanna isn't going well. She doesn't want to go, the enemy attack Voyager AND Chakotay is about to be captured!!
All in all, a very exciting and original sort of show. I liked the idea of a race who will go to ANY length to get workers for its industries. My only complaint, and it's a very minor one, is that in Tuvak's flashbacks, what you see SHOULD be from his point of view but it isn't! Heck, you can even see HIM during these scenes.
Here's the weird part. The crew were rescued and given drugs to destroy their old identities. Now they are workers at some giant refinery- type plant with no recollection of Voyager! So, it's up to the remaining crew to sneak onto this nasty planet and secret the crew back to Voyager and deprogram them. When the show ends, however, a mission to extract B'Elanna isn't going well. She doesn't want to go, the enemy attack Voyager AND Chakotay is about to be captured!!
All in all, a very exciting and original sort of show. I liked the idea of a race who will go to ANY length to get workers for its industries. My only complaint, and it's a very minor one, is that in Tuvak's flashbacks, what you see SHOULD be from his point of view but it isn't! Heck, you can even see HIM during these scenes.
- planktonrules
- Mar 7, 2015
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Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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