Star Trek: Voyager — 7x17 — Workforce, Part II
Synopsis
Chakotay tries to rescue his lost comrades.
Remarkable scenes
- The doctor outwitting the Quarren ships.
- Remarkable technobabble: "Triaxialating frequency on a covariant subspace band."
- Seven: "More than a hundred skilled employees, most of them the same species, acquired in a single day during a labor shortage?"
- Yerid investigating the conspiracy.
- Ravoc uncovering the conspiracy.
- Voyager coming under attack when they tried to rescue their crew.
- Kim outwitting the Quarren ships.
Review
Not quite as exciting as the first part as we by now well knew exactly what was going on. Watching Ravoc so slowly (ad nauseam) uncover the source of the conspiracy was the weakest use of time yet displayed in the episode. However, the extensive guest character involvement was also still quite to the episode's advantage. I felt we really got to know Qurren well, and it was nice to see the crew's efforts to rescue their comrades finally begin to show some progress after much trial and error. And like part one, part two manages to display more spectacular graphics. Workforce was an unusual episode on any scale, but definitely a surprisingly nice treat and a gem of season seven.