Disclaimer: I absolutely do not own Star Trek Voyager or anything else related to it! I just play with the characters...
NOTE: This was originally written around 2004 and is one of the first stories I transcribed on a computer. I was inspired by several episode novelizations to write one for the seventh season two-part episode, Workforce. It isn't complete, but enjoy.
Star Trek: Voyager "Workforce"
Tucked away in the main hospital facility overlooking a large polluted river in Quarra's capital, Doctor Kadan's office was the perfect place to research the latest in neural-pathology. He always enjoyed coming up with new ways of dealing with his world's labor shortage problem. His latest accomplishment was a sure way to relieve his world's plight and lucky for him, it was funded the government.
Kadan, a skilled neural pathologist, discovered a way to resequence memory engrams so the new workers would "forget" their past lives and occupations and add to the labor force thus curing the plight. The new workers would have "Dysphoria Syndrome," an illness that he fabricated so they would be cured by him resequencing their memories.
However, the only way to make his plan work is to illegally take aliens while they were passing through the system and the only way that would happen is if he had help. He also needed a place for the new workers to work and he knew the main power facility supervisor. Other governmental officials, the people who funded his project, were also under his beck-and-call which added security to his plan.
Kadan's plan would be classified to anyone other than he, the Director of Investigations, the Power Plant supervisor and Coyote. They would meet tonight on how to acquire the unknown ship just entering the system.
Kadan was at his desk reviewing the preliminary information gathered about the unknown ship when two men entered.
"I have an opportunity to get you over 130 new workers." Kadan explained with some enthusiasm. His eyes danced around the PADD he was reviewing. "They all are humanoids, mostly of the same species. They are on a large starship entering the system."
The Power Plant supervisor, who appeared to be ten years younger than Kadan, nodded with satisfaction. "I have many job openings to be filled. They shall have good jobs in the Power Plant." He looked at Kadan as if Kadan was holding precious gems and ready to get them to him.
Kadan pressed a button on his desk which revealed a young man only familiar to Kadan and the Director of Investigations. This man used to be a criminal before he was treated by Kadan. And now, he works for Kadan. Coyote had a talent for obtaining ships, weapons and anything else Kadan wanted. Kadan knew Coyote could obtain the unknown starship and its crew.
"I have a new job for you, Coyote." Kadan invoked a grin from the young man on the other side of the viewscreen which pleased Kadan. "There's a ship entering our system from Nar Shaddan space. The Starship Voyager." Kadan was reading his PADD. "There are over 130 people on that ship that could help in our labor shortage." Kadan then made direct eye contact with Coyote. "Place a tetrion-based subspace mine in the ship's path. That should disable the ship and crew. Then wait for them to eject their escape pods and tractor them to Quarra. I will handle the rest. You may have the ship." Kadan the waited for a response from Coyote.
"How do you know they will use their escape pods to abandon ship?" Kadan almost rolled his eyes at Coyote's naïve question, but then remembered the Coyote was inexperienced in using tetrion based weapons. "The subspace mine would release toxic amounts of radiation poisoning that if they remained on board, they would die. And their ship won't be able to get them away from the radiation. The only way for them to survive is to eject the pods." Kadan explained in lay-men's terms with his voice sounding very impatient. "Proceed with your job and get me their crew." Coyote nodded and ended the comm. channel.
Kadan to proceeded toward his two visitors with shear confidence and glee. His white hair became incongruous to his new proclaimed excitement. By the end of the week, the labor shortage on Quarra will diminish by 130 workers and Kadan was going to be compensated nicely for it.
He approached the power plant supervisor who seemed as excited as he was. "By the end of the week, expect 130 new workers to your plant. From my understanding, they already work with advanced technology so training them would be very easy. They will need units in the employee housing complex and clothing." Kadan had it worked out to the letter. This was not the first time he acquired workers, but this was the first time he acquired over 100 at the same time from a ship of unknown origin. This was the first time Kadan had Coyote to help him, because this was the first time Coyote had access to ships and weapons.
Kadan turned to the Director of Investigations. "I hope I can trust you back up our plan. If we have any problems, we'll need your support." Kadan shook hands with the director who gave Kadan a nod of agreement and left. The Director of Investigations was a military man who rarely gave any emotion to anything or anyone and Kadan knew that trying to read him would be difficult. The director's loyalties would only be known if Kadan's plan failed or was discovered.
Kadan turned to the power plant supervisor and discreetly told him that they would be in contact within days. "I will let you know when your new workers are ready to start their new jobs. In the meantime, make sure housing and positions are available. We need this to be seamless thus not to draw too much attention to what we're doing." Kadan then motioned for the supervisor to leave.
Kadan then secretly informed one of his nurses of the probability of receiving an influx of sick aliens within a couple of days and to be ready for it.