Workforce
- Episode aired Feb 21, 2001
- TV-PG
- 43m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
1.8K
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
- TriviaFor the second time in the series, The Doctor is the only one left on Voyager that can do anything, and other crew members are off-ship. The first time was Macrocosm (1996) when the crew was incapacitated.
- 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
Economic slavery in a paranoid thriller
Most of the Voyager crew find themselves living alternate lives working at a power station on a strange planet.
This is a very interesting concept that made me think how people's lives can defined by the jobs they do and role the economy plays in trapping people into lives they might otherwise not lead.
The above is presented in a pretty entertaining and thrilling two part conspiracy story. Part 1 establishes what everyone is doing and how they got they got into the situation and sets things up nicely for part two.
Everything that happens with each character makes sense. It's great how you see the personality traits of some coming out in their current situation. Tom Paris for example is still the same Tom Paris, but without the stimulus of his Voyager adventures and stability of married life you see he's initially back in self destruct mode before someone similar to Janeway takes him in.
The episode's theme continues on board Voyager where The Doctor is in Emergency Command Hologram with another opportunity to command the ship. Does he identify with this more than his intended program?
What about Kathryn Janeway? Is she happier in her new life? If the opportunity comes to return to Voyager will she actually take it?
This one has a lot of intrigue and strong performances. So much so it was the first two part episode in the series that hooked me enough to watch them back to back.
This is a very interesting concept that made me think how people's lives can defined by the jobs they do and role the economy plays in trapping people into lives they might otherwise not lead.
The above is presented in a pretty entertaining and thrilling two part conspiracy story. Part 1 establishes what everyone is doing and how they got they got into the situation and sets things up nicely for part two.
Everything that happens with each character makes sense. It's great how you see the personality traits of some coming out in their current situation. Tom Paris for example is still the same Tom Paris, but without the stimulus of his Voyager adventures and stability of married life you see he's initially back in self destruct mode before someone similar to Janeway takes him in.
The episode's theme continues on board Voyager where The Doctor is in Emergency Command Hologram with another opportunity to command the ship. Does he identify with this more than his intended program?
What about Kathryn Janeway? Is she happier in her new life? If the opportunity comes to return to Voyager will she actually take it?
This one has a lot of intrigue and strong performances. So much so it was the first two part episode in the series that hooked me enough to watch them back to back.
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- snoozejonc
- Aug 8, 2020
Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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