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Rok-Tahk, or simply Rok, was a young Brikar female who lived during the late 24th century.

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What role did Rok-Tahk play in the slave show?

Rok-Tahk, a young Brikar, played The Monster in a slave show, where she fought and lost to The Hero in each act. Initially satisfied with her role, she later sabotaged the show, prompting the Bolian owner to sell her to a Kazon slaver.

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How did Rok-Tahk feel about her role as The Monster?

Rok-Tahk was initially content with her role as The Monster in stage performances. Over time, she grew unhappy as she noticed the audience's fear. She attempted to change her role by sabotaging a show to become the hero, but this resulted in her being sold to a Kazon slaver.

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What led Rok-Tahk to sabotage the show?

Rok-Tahk sabotaged the show because she was unhappy with her role as The Monster, especially when the audience showed fear towards her. She wanted to be the hero instead. However, her patron disapproved of this change and sold her to a Kazon slaver, believing that the audience did not want to see a Monster as a Hero.

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Who bought Rok-Tahk after she sabotaged the show?

Rok-Tahk was sold to a Kazon slaver by her patron after she sabotaged the show to portray the hero. The audience's expectation was to see a monster, not a hero.

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What species is Rok-Tahk in Star Trek Prodigy?

Rok-Tahk is a Brikar, a species characterized by their rocky exterior. She is a young female Brikar serving as a science officer and xenobiologist in training with the Federation Starfleet in the late 24th century.

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Biography

Early life

Early in her life, Rok was part of a slave show where she played the role of The Monster, due to her physique. She had to fight and lose to The Hero during each performance. At first, the young Brikar was happy with her lot, but eventually grew dissatisfied with her role as a savage beast. One day, she sabotaged the show, trying to assume the role of The Hero, but was later sold to a Kazon slaver as "people didn't come from all around to see a Monster be a Hero". (PRO: "Preludes")

USS Protostar

Eventually, she was bought by The Diviner and imprisoned as an Unwanted at the Tars Lamora prison colony until she escaped aboard the newly-discovered Federation starship USS Protostar. (PRO: "Lost and Found")

Due to her youth and living as a prisoner for so long, the nutri-goop fed to the Unwanted was the only food she could ever remember eating. (PRO: "Starstruck")

When the crew was exploring an uncharted Class M planet in the Hirogen system, Rok's love of cute fluffy creatures allowed the planet's cilium-like vegetation to trick her using its illusions. Despite almost being eaten by the planet, Rok still wanted to name the planet Larry. (PRO: "Dream Catcher", "Terror Firma")

Rok discovered her passion for science when the ship was overtaken by some sort of temporal anomaly, which caused an oscillating time differential between the sections of the ship. For Jankom Pog, time moved extremely fast, but for Rok, time moved at an extremely slow rate, making ten minutes seem like an eternity. Knowing that Rok was their only hope to fix the damaged warp core, Hologram Janeway tried to talk Rok through it, only for her to panic and shut the hologram down. Later, Rok tried in vain to call Janeway back, only to be told by the ship's computer that her program was gone. Seemingly alone, Rok wandered through the ship and soon discovered a transphasic message from Gwyn, who apologized for pressuring Rok to play the unwanted part of security officer. Gwyn told Rok that she could be much more by digging deep into her potential to save them all. The schematics for the warp matrix were attached to the message, as well as the location of the dilithium coupler. Though Rok insisted that she couldn't do it, she decided to try and used the computer to teach herself about quantum science and computer engineering, and she was able to successfully build a warp matrix and restore Janeway's program. (PRO: "Time Amok")

She continued to prove her mettle as a scientist when she successfully jump-started the Rev-12's disabled engine at Tars Lamora, and again when she successfully calculated the jump from the deteriorating CR-721 relay station to the Protostar. (PRO: "A Moral Star, Part 2", "Asylum") She also assisted Zero in removing Dal R'El's epigenetic dermal implant, obtained at Noble Isle, before his genetic changes became permanent. (PRO: "Masquerade")

Eventually, thanks to the Living construct, which was onboard the Protostar with the intention of destroying Starfleet from within, the Protostar crew no longer had control of the ship, and was headed for the heart of Federation space, where it was met by an armada of Starfleet vessels. When Starfleet vessels, contaminated by the Living construct, began attacking one another, Dal decided that the only solution was to destroy the Protostar. When Pog stated that that would destroy everything in this solar system, Rok countered that it wouldn't if they set the ship to explode as it was going into proto-drive. Unfortunately, since the self-destruct was off-line, the core would need to be detonated manually. Dal volunteered to go down with the ship, but Holo Janeway declared that she should be the one to stay behind.

As Rok and the others escaped on a bare-bones shuttle that Rok built using the vehicle replicator, the Protostar destroyed itself in mid-jump, disabling the Living construct.

A month later, the Protostar crew made it to Starfleet Headquarters on Earth. where they found themselves in front of a Starfleet tribunal where they faced various criminal charges, such as stealing a Federation starship. Vice admiral Kathryn Janeway argued on their behalf that the kids did everything in an effort to warn Starfleet. Thanks to the admiral's impassioned speech, all criminal charges were dropped. Although they weren't allowed immediate entrance into Starfleet Academy as they hoped, the crew, with the exception of Gwyn who'd decided to go to Solum to try to unite her people, would be permitted to serve under the admiral as Warrant officers-in-training.

Starfleet Academy

During her orientation, Rok was encouraged by a Starfleet Academy instructor, Doctor Erin Macdonald, to pursue a career in Exobiology. (PRO: "Supernova, Part 2")

In a classroom discussion (now as a warrant officer) Rok-Tahk presented her finding of a way to prevent Tribbles from multiplying, to the astonishment of both her peers and professors, before being called away by Admiral Janeway on an expedition alongside her old crewmates. (PRO: "Into the Breach, Part I")

USS Voyager-A

Admiral Janeway gave Rok and the other Protostar crew members a mission aboard the USS Voyager-A. Given Rok's interest in xenobiology, she was assigned to Cetacean Ops, much to Rok's excitement. Soon, Rok developed a friendship with Gillian the whale.

On Voyager, their mission was to observe a new wormhole and determine if it posed a threat. Rok recognized it as the wormhole that was created by the destruction of the Protostar. Through the wormhole, Starfleet picked up Captain Chakotay's distress call from fifty-two years in the future on Solum. Rok found the chance to study a temporal anomaly super exciting. Rok realized that Dal had never read "Temporal Mechanics 101," but wasn't able to convince Dal to read it yet.

When the others started to investigate the secrets onboard Voyager, Rok was unwilling to join them because she thought they couldn't afford to break the rules and mess up like they used to do, and she was afraid she may lose her position in Starfleet—the first place that made her feel like she actually belonged. Rok continued to object to the others' investigations, but was unable to prevent some of them from launching the Infinity, an experimental Federation ship. (PRO: "Into the Breach, Part II")

When the others on the Infinity travelled through the wormhole and ended up in a different time, Rok helped come up with a way to communicate with them. Rok was finally able to convince Dal to read "Temporal Mechanics 101". (PRO: "Temporal Mechanics 101")

When the crew was trying to understand what Murf was actually saying, Rok realized that maybe the reason that no one could understand him is because he has to be in water to be understood. Some frequencies can't be heard easily unless they're submerged, such as whale harmonics. Rok realized that Murf's language might be too nuanced for the universal translator, but a whale (like Gillian) might be able to understand him. (PRO: "Observer's Paradox")

Despite her initial reticence to help the others with their investigation, Rok eventually assisted Zero and Jankom to perfect holo-duplicates of the crew, in order to avoid detection when the real crew borrowed the Infinity. When the crew and the holo-duplicates started fighting, both Rok and her holo-duplicate were the only ones who decided to cooperate instead. They reminded everyone that they all wanted the mission to succeed, and their fighting was keeping that from happening. (PRO: "Imposter Syndrome")

After borrowing the Infinity for their mission, when they arrived at the mysterious coordinates, Rok figured out how to remodulate the shields and collapse the superimposed wave function to reveal the hidden planet. When the crew searched the time ziggurat for the mystery person they sought, Rok was the only one who recognized Wesley Crusher after he introduced himself. (PRO: "The Devourer of All Things, Part I")

Return to the Protostar

After Wesley transported the Protostar crew and Maj'el to Ysida, they finally found the Protostar, but they also came face to face with Chakotay and Holo-Janeway, who had been marooned there on a beach since 2374. Rok and the others told Chakotay who they really were and that they needed to return the Protostar to Tars Lamora in the 2360s. At first, Chakotay refused to believe them, but allowed her and the others to come aboard at Holo-Janeway's urging. It took a while, but eventually Rok and the others started to repair the Protostar and the Runaway. When Dal was taken by an Ysidan eel, Rok provided support from the bridge of the Protostar, helping guide the others who took the Runaway to find him. Together, they found Dal, and also Commander Adreek-Hu's body and his Antimatter storage pod.

After giving Adreek a burial on Ysida's vapor ocean, Chakotay told Rok and the others Adreek's plan to leave Ysida. Together, they were able to build a sail for the Protostar to sail on Ysida's vapor ocean. Rok, Murf, and Chakotay used a large lever to move a boulder, allowing the Protostar to disembark into the vapor ocean. As the Protostar sailed, Rok initially helped keep its rigging taut, and later went below decks and helped keep the ship intact during rough weather. After gathering dilithium from a storm, they were able to power up the Protostar's warp core and leave the planet. (PRO: "Last Flight of the Protostar, Part I", "Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II")

En route to Voyager-A, Gwyn, Chakotay, and the others stopped at a planet to find bosonite for the protostar drive. Unfortunately, the planet had a tribble infestation. These tribbles were a result of Dr. K'ruvang's experiments to slow their reproduction cycle. Rok worked with the Klingon scientist to synthesize a retrovirus, and in the process accidentally created a Brikar/tribble hybrid. Maj'el and Gwyn thought it was cute, but Rok was disgusted that she had made a mistake. Since she had introduced an unexpected variable that resulted in the new creature, she started doubting her own work on the retrovirus. The crew gave the tribbles the retrovirus-laden quadrotriticale and ended up retrieving the bosonite, though Rok had to use her strength to prevent Dr. K'ruvang from shooting the bosonite and blowing them all up when they were all surrounded by voracious tribbles. The tribbles were mollified and the day was saved thanks to Bribble, whom Rok was finally warming up to. It turned out that Rok's work on the retrovirus was perfectly fine, it just took longer than either she or K'ruvang had expected for it to take effect. (PRO: "A Tribble Called Quest")

When they finally reached Voyager-A and beamed aboard, The Doctor and Admiral Edward Jellico told them Janeway had died in an accident aboard the Infinity. The Doctor theorized that the crew was experiencing a shared psychosis or was from an alternate reality, and he told Rok, Chakotay and the others that he would meet them in sickbay. Rok and Zero had to take a separate turbolift from the rest of the crew, but the deck they exited on was unexpectedly populated by Enderprizians, who alerted Captain Tuvix. While the rest of the crew ended up in an alternate reality where they were onboard the ISS Voyager-A and were captured by Terran Admiral Janeway and Captain Chakotay, Rok and Zero were able to relax in their alternate reality and enjoy Captain Tuvix's Vulcan-Talaxian fusion cuisine (of which Zero was able to partake thanks to their corporeal body). The entire crew eventually returned to the same reality, and reunited with their own Voyager-A. (PRO: "Cracked Mirror")

Rok was not aboard Voyager-A for long before she returned to the Protostar to help defend against the Rev-1, which was sent by Asencia to destroy both Voyager and the Protostar. After the Rev-1's weapon breached Voyager's hull, Rok guided Zero through manually disabling it, preventing the spread of exotic temporal radiation that was rapidly aging everything aboard the ship. (PRO: "Ascension, Part I", "Ascension, Part II")

Voyager and the Protostar were sent to Solum to stop Asencia from launching a war against the Federation with her new weaponry, a war that the Federation might well lose. Since Rok and the Protostar crew were not Starfleet personnel, and thus were neither bound by the Prime Directive nor likely to spark a war with their interference, they were sent to Solum to find the source of Asencia's temporal weaponry. Rok and Murf created an experimental cloak generator to keep a group of people hidden while infiltrating Solum, though unfortunately it wasn't perfect and Rok was forced to incapacitate some guards. After rescuing Wesley from Asencia's lab, Rok punched a hole in the wall for the crew to escape, just as Wesley had already planned. Unfortunately, although the crew saved Wesley and returned him to Voyager, Asencia captured Rok and the others. (PRO: "Brink")

Asencia brought the Protostar crew to an arena to execute them by feeding them to the Loom. While the crew were fleeing for their lives, Rok realized that the Loom looked sick. She and the others realized that the Loom was just as trapped as they were, and so they looked for a way to free it. Meanwhile, Janeway, Chakotay, The Doctor, and Wesley launched a daring rescue mission for Rok and her friends. Janeway blew a hole in the arena wall to allow the Loom to escape, doubly freeing Rok and her friends. As Solum descended into the civil war that the Diviner had been trying to prevent with his mission, Janeway agreed to help save the planet from Asencia. (PRO: "Touch of Grey")

With Asencia poised to launch an attack on every major Federation base across three quadrants using multiple spacetime rifts, first Wesley and then Rok realized how they could use the technology Asencia had developed to turn Asencia's spacetime rifts into a wormhole that could send the Protostar back in time to its proper place in the timeline, both preventing the invasion of the Federation and fixing the temporal paradox. Rok worked with Wesley, Maj'el, and Zero to locate the correct spacetime coordinates, a task which Zero likened to finding a needle in a haystack, lost in the outer galaxy with only a telescope.

Despite reviewing all the time-travel events and wormholes related to the Protostar, Rok and her companions were unable to find the necessary coordinates. Once Zero realized that the only wormhole out of place was the one that sent the ship to Tars Lamora in the first place, Rok theorized that maybe their present selves were actually the ones who created that wormhole all along, leading to all the other events and wormholes afterward. The team that had gone to the surface of Solum was able to capture Asencia's technology and open the wormhole, which closed the rifts that Asencia had opened, destroying her fleet. Asencia was defeated by Gwyn with the help of the Vau N'Akat, and everyone prepared to send the Protostar back in time, only to have the Loom swarm out of the wormhole. (PRO: "Ouroboros, Part I")

Running out of time, Voyager escorted the Protostar into the wormhole, allowing it to safely pass through. Before beaming to Voyager, Dal left a combadge on the bridge's floor for his and Rok's younger selves to find, and Chakotay had The Doctor copy Hologram Janeway to an EMH backup module so that her program could be saved this time. The Protostar was successfully sent back in time to Tars Lamora, repairing the broken timeline and saving the universe from destruction. Afterwards, Voyager landed on Solum to make peaceful first contact with the Vau N'Akat, leaving the Federation and the Vau N'Akat facing a brighter future together. (PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II")

Serving in Starfleet

In 2385, Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway and Captain Chakotay gave Rok a field commission to ensign. Alongside the rest of her friends, she was posted aboard the new Protostar-class ship, the USS Prodigy, where she served as a science officer. (PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II")

Rok would continue her Starfleet career, eventually reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander. (SA: "Beta Test")

Legacy

In 3195, Rok-Tahk was listed with other luminaries of Starfleet Academy on a commemoration wall in the USS Athena. (SA: "Kids These Days" set decoration)

Personal Interests

Rok enjoyed making friends, cuddly creatures, and solving problems with science.

Rok enjoyed playing a holodeck program called "Delta Heart Magical Veterinarian", in which she cared for creatures such as glittersmooches at Delta Heart Hospital. (PRO: "Ghost in the Machine")

Relationships

Rok became good friends with Gillian the humpback whale while working in Cetacean Ops onboard the USS Voyager-A. (PRO: "Into the Breach, Part II", "Observer's Paradox")

Rok reached a professional relationship with the Klingon scientist Dr. K'ruvang, helping him to synthesize a retrovirus to reduce the appetite and metabolism of mutated tribbles, though neither had thought too highly of the other at first. (PRO: "A Tribble Called Quest")

Rok cared for Bribble, a Brikar/tribble hybrid she had a hand (or a nose) in creating. Rok was initially disgusted that she had created Bribble by making a mistake, but eventually warmed up to the cuddly creature, and also learned to be at peace with unexpected variables. (PRO: "A Tribble Called Quest")

Holograms

• On the Protostar holodeck, Rok watched a holographic recording of herself and the entire Protostar crew trying to solve the fox, chicken and grain problem teambuilding exercise holoprogram. (PRO: "Time Amok")
• An independent Holo-duplicate of Rok was created to fool the USS Voyager-A crew. Due to a glitch, she switched personality and vocal mannerisms with Hologram Jankom before Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway deactivated her program after the deception was discovered. (PRO: "Imposter Syndrome", "The Fast and the Curious", "Is There in Truth No Beauty?")

Appendices

Appearances

Background information

Rok-Tahk is voiced by Rylee Alazraqui when using the universal translator, and by Brook Chalmers when growling in the Brikar language in "Lost and Found", "Preludes", and "Supernova, Part 1".

Her species was initially not stated on-screen, but was revealed on her official Nickelodeon description (see below) as "Brikarian", and later by the showrunners to be Brikar. [1] The latter was later confirmed onscreen in "Asylum".

According to her official Nickelodeon description:

Don't be fooled by her huge, rocky exterior – this uncommonly clever 8-year-old girl is a gentle Brikarian giant. She's mostly shy, except when it comes to her love of animals. Rok-Tahk believes in equality for all and dreams of being a Science Officer. She's on a mission to keep things fair for the entire crew, even though they think she'd make a better Security Officer. [2]

External links

• Rok-Tahk at StarTrek.com
• Rok-Tahk at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works