Rok-Tahk

Rok-Tahk, or simply Rok, was a young Brikar female who lived during the late 24th century.
== 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 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". ()
=== 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 . ()
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. ()
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. ()
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. ()
She continued to prove her mettle as a scientist when she successfully jump-started the Rev-12s disabled engine at Tars Lamora, and again when she successfully calculated the jump from the deteriorating CR-721 relay station to the Protostar. () She also assisted Zero in removing Dal R'El's epigenetic dermal implant, obtained at Noble Isle, before his genetic changes became permanent. ()
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 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. ()
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 Janeway on an expedition alongside her old crewmates. ()
=== USS Voyager-A ===
Admiral Kathryn 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 , an experimental Federation ship. ()
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". ()
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. ()
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. ()
After borrowing the Infinity for their mission, when the crew ended up in the ziggurat, Rok was the only one who recognized Wesley Crusher after he introduced himself. ()
=== USS Prodigy ===
Rok later received a field commission to ensign and, alongside the rest of her friends was posted aboard the new ship, the . ()
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=== 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 , , and .
Her species was initially not stated on-screen, but was revealed on her official description (see below) as "Brikarian", and later by the showrunners to be Brikar. The latter was later confirmed onscreen in .
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. 
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Category:Brikars
Category:Starfleet enlisted personnel
Category:USS Protostar personnel
Category:USS Voyager (NCC-74656-A) personnel
Category:Starfleet sciences personnel
Category:USS Prodigy personnel