Many who attended assumed that since it was a work-organized event, they could charge the time as work hours. But the Commerce Department’s inspector general said in a report released this week that oh no, going to the movies is not work.

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“The OIG concluded that, unlike training events, which are designed to develop professional skills and therefore may be counted as work hours, watching a Star Trek movie offered no professional development opportunities,” according to the report. “Therefore, even if such an event resulted in greater unity or cohesion, the hours spent at the event should not have been billed to the government.”

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The event was planned to boost morale, and 21 employees, including government workers and private sector federal contractors attended. Six federal employees, three NASA, two NOAA, and one Commerce general counsel, and seven federal contractors billed the hours spent at lunch and the movie to the government.

A whistleblower alerted the inspector general to the event, decrying that it “created the appearance of disregard for tax dollars.” Once the inspector general began investigating, the employees’ time cards were adjusted to reflect the non-work hours. And the contractors who worked for Noblis, Booz Allen Hamilton and Aerospace eventually all credited the money back to the government.

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The inspector general concluded that the supervisor should have been more clear about timekeeping, but the investigation was not to suggest that there shouldn’t be team building activities planned.

“However, events like the matinee viewing of the latest “Star Trek” movie held in May 2013 should not be conducted at the expense of taxpayers,” the inspector general wrote.