Percussive maintenance

Percussive maintenance was a form of repair involving less-than-delicate handling of the repaired device or system. Despite the logically counterproductive methods though, it was often surprisingly effective.
The Tellarite Jankom Pog was an expert in percussive maintenance. He employed it extensively while repairing the newly-rediscovered , and managed to make the disrepaired starship flyable in less than a day. ()
Due to his ambitions to join Starfleet, Jankom later attempted to adopt a more polite personality and as such, he began doing things by the book and discarded performing percussive maintenance. () However, in a moment of frustration, Jankom slipped back into his old habits and hit the console of the , causing the ship to power up, much to his delight. () Jankom subsequently discarded his more polite personality for good. ()
When the crew's holo-duplicates switched personalities because of a glitch, stated that she had some percussive maintenance to do in Cetacean Ops while told Rok he thought that she was going to do a wonderful job and expressed Rok's love for whales. ()
When Jankom used percussive maintenance to get the Runaway working, Captain Chakotay remarked that he liked it. ()
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