Characters / Star Trek: Prodigy

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Character page for the Star Trek: Prodigy.

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U.S.S. Protostar crew

In General

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• Audience Surrogate: Like the target demographic, the crew has no familiarity with the Federation or Starfleet until Hologram Janeway brings them up to speed.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • These kids are nowhere near as skilled or experienced as the crew of the Enterprise, Enterprise-D, Defiant, Voyager, Enterprise NX-01, Discovery, or even the Cerritos—they're all a bunch of kids and teenagers who are trying to escape from a hellish nightmare from a villain who's desperate for their ship, and only just started to be able to understand each other. Fortunately, some good Character Development helps them to grow, showing they have the potential to be as good as Starfleet.
  • They're also vastly different from the crew of the U.S.S. Valiant. Both of them are ships commanded by younger protagonists, all of them equally inexperienced and stressed out by the horrors they're facing, but the Protostar crew learns to overcome their challenges, while everyone in Red Squad blindly follows their captain's orders in spite of how incredibly stupid and egotistical they are and...well, they're all dead, Jim.
• Kid Hero: Dal and Gwyn are the oldest at seventeen years old.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The Diviner has worked to keep them and the rest of his slaves ignorant of the universe beyond Tars Lamora — including the Federation and Starfleet. Thus, Hologram Janeway has to fill them in.
• Ragtag Band of Misfits: This isn't a highly trained Starfleet crew. This isn't even the Bunny-Ears Lawyer crew of the Cerritos. This is a group of kids who commandeered an abandoned starship they have no idea how to fly in a desperate attempt to escape a cruel tyrant.
• Ship Tease: Dal and Gwyn get plenty of this.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: All of them don Starfleet uniforms (or a similar paintjob, in Zero's case) in "A Moral Star", reflecting their change from merely trying to survive to actively helping others, just like any member of Starfleet would. They switch back to normal clothing when the crisis is resolved.
• Two Girls to a Team: Gwyn and Rok-Tahk are the two female characters in the team. Though with Zero being genderless and Murph being a Blob Monster, the genders are more equally distributed than in most occurrences of this trope.

Dal

Warrant Officer Dal R'El

Voiced by: Brett Gray

17 years old and an unknown species (later revealed to be a genetically-engineered hybrid of numerous species), he fancies himself a maverick, who even in the toughest times, holds strong onto his unwavering hope. He eventually serves as the ship's captain.

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• Alien Hair: In addition to normal hair, he has a short tentacle growing from the back of his head. It's prehensile, as we see him hand Gwyn a tool with it in "A Moral Star, Part 1".
• Aliens Speaking English: In the two-part season finale, Dal is noted to speak Federation Standard (English), which is a bit odd when one considers he was raised by a Ferengi.
• Badass Driver: In the pilot, he tries to escape Tars Lamora in a loading vehicle, performing several stunts and nearly managing to jump it off the asteroid using an ore chute, only failing because the Diviner disabled the anti-gravity system to stop him.
• Bio-Augmentation: Dr. Jago reveals that Dal is a human augment composed of the recessive DNA of 26 alien species (With those confirmed being Proto-Organian, Klingon, Vulcan, Tellarite, and Andorian).
• Break the Haughty: He accidentally discovers the Kobayashi Maru simulator and figures he can ace it just fine. To his horror, he loses dozens of times and on his last attempt he nearly beats it but foolishly causes the Bird-of-Prey to destroy the Enterprise-D, which causes him to fall into despair. It's only when the hologram of Spock tells him the true purpose of the simulation does Dal finally realize he's messed up by doing everything by himself and not considering the rest of his crew.
• The Captain: He appoints himself captain of Protostar, even though he's less experienced than a first-year cadet. He slowly grows into it.
• Character Development: He's a far haughtier and ego-driven character at the start of the series, a self-appointed Captain, and someone who's dismissive to his crew at best. The series has him grow out of this, slowly realizing that The Needs of the Many outweigh the needs of the few, and he can't act so half-cocked if he wants to keep those he cares about alive. As Spock's hologram, whose words helps him realize this, puts it:
  Holographic Spock: You’re the Captain of this ship. You haven’t the right to be vulnerable in the eyes of the crew. You can’t afford the luxury of being anything less than perfect. If you do, they lose faith, and you lose command.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Unlike many Captains from previous Trek series who are experienced officers, Dal is the opposite: being an inexperienced officer, let alone much more inexperienced than a first-year Starfleet cadet, who is reluctantly thrusted to be the Protostar's Captain chair after Chakotay's disappearance. Character Development prevails, however, when he slowly becomes more skilled in his duty as one, but had to learn from much more different methods of captaincy, being that he didn't go to Starfleet Academy, to be on equal footing to his predecessors.
• The Cynic: Years of living on Tars Lemora have soured him on any sort of authority. His first instinct upon learning of the Federation is to point the ship the other way, simply because he can't believe that any organization could be as selfless as Janeway describes them.
• Didn't Think This Through: His main flaw. While he has the drive and vision to escape where others see only despair, he lacks foresight and tends to fly by the seat of his pants.
• Heinz Hybrid: He's revealed to be genetically engineered from a mix of over 20 species.
• Humble Hero: Some of the time anyway. He tries to downplay saving Gwyn as something Janeway made him do, when he actually insisted on it.
• Hypocrite: Dal dismisses Janeway's exposition of the Federation under the belief it's sweet words to veil more self-serving authority like they've been getting on Tars Lamora. After assuming the position of Captain, he dismisses the question that he could be as self-serving and proceeds to throw around his authority while enjoying the perks, It's only through a narrow brush with death via a collapsing star that he drops this trope.
• The Kirk: He wants to be this, but his lack of experience tends to make his more Kirkesque personality traits a liability. Even more telling is that, when he's given the choice to recruit the James Tiberus Kirk for his Kobayashi Maru simulation, he dismisses him because "we already have a captain".
• Leader Wannabe: Fancies himself the captain, but the group doesn't know each other well enough for any sort of formal leadership. When he does take charge, his recklessness proves a serious flaw and he nearly gets everyone killed. Having to ask Janeway for help forces some humility onto him, but he's clearly a long way from proper leadership. It takes him failing the Kobayashi Maru simulator so close to actually beating it to realize that he needs their help.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He tends to do things without thinking them through.
• Mysterious Past: Dal is a genetic hybrid of over 20 species (including human), engineered by the disciples of Arik Soong. The question is why they designed him, and how he wound up abandoned and in the care of a travelling Ferengi.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Dal doesn't trust Holo-Janeway at first, believing the Federation to be another example of a self-serving organization like the Diviner mining operation. His response is to find the brightest red spot on the map and point the ship at it, refusing to heed her warnings, simply for the sake of being contrary. This in turn caused him to nearly fly the ship into a collapsing star.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Zero states that unlike most of the other prisoners, he has been able to keep hope and believing he will escape one day.

Gwyn

Gwyndala

Voiced by: Ella Purnell

A 17-year-old Vau N'Akat who was raised on her father's bleak mining asteroid, Tars Lamora. She grew up dreaming to explore the stars, but is torn by her loyalty to her father and his mysterious plans.

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• Action Girl: She is shown to be quite skilled in combat in the pilot, briefly taking down the much larger Rok-Tahk.
• Alien Hair: Her "hair" appears to be tentacles that glow from within when using her psychic powers.
• Anti-Villain: She spends most of the first five episodes as an antagonist even while sympathetic to the slaves, believing her father's cause to be just. Him abandoning her in favor of the Protostar is the wake up call to join the good guys in earnest.
• Badass Adorable: A very pretty and endearing Green-Skinned Space Babe who's the fiercest fighter on the team.
• Bioluminescence Is Cool: The lines on her skin glow whenever she's communicating with telepathy, or when she is particularly angry.
• Broken Pedestal: The Diviner ditching her for the Protostar in "Terror Firma" ends any respect she had for him.
• Co-Dragons: She initially shares the role of dragon with Drednok.
• Designer Babies: Is apparently this, having been grown directly from her father’s genetic material with no apparent mother. It is currently unclear if this is how Vau N'Akat typically reproduce.
• Dub Name Change: She is called Gwen/Gwendala in the French dub, probably because Gwyn sounds like "gouine", a derogatory term for lesbians.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Starts off as this, being the loyal daughter of the Big Bad, she's taken hostage in the crew's escape and kept in the brig throughout the first few episodes.
• Friend to All Children: When a slave trader brings a Caitian child to Tars Lamora, Drednok takes the offer but Gwyn threatens the slaver, saying that, should he ever bring someone so young again, he'll be enslaved instead. Gwyn is later seen showing the young Caitian a linguistics hologram.
• Heel–Face Turn: Officially undergoes this in "Terror Firma". After her father chooses capturing the ship over saving her life, she later helps the crew escape him.
• Hostage Situation: Does not join the Protostar's maiden voyage by choice — she was taken hostage by the crew to escape Drednok and his forces.
• Last of Her Kind: Gwyn and her father belong to a mysterious race called the Vau N'Kat, and he states they are the last. It turns out that he is from the future where he was the last and their race is alive and well in the present.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The Diviner hid his search for the U.S.S. Protostar from her, not wanting to risk the Federation influencing Gwyn in a way that would impede his plans.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: She seems to fall into this, being the daughter and a reluctant dragon of the series' first Arc Villain, the Diviner.
• Malaproper: Despite her mastery of countless languages, certain words and phrases escape her. She accuses Dal of being in "cat boots" with Zero when she means "cahoots". She also thinks that a formation of stars is a "constipation" instead of "constellation".
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Her love for her father overrides any concern she might have for the crew, up until her father leaves her to die in favor of securing the Protostar. When Dal rescues her even though he could have ditched her, she turns against her father completely.
• Morph Weapon: The metallic lattice she wears on her arm is a shapeshifting metal that she controls by thought, willing it into whatever shape she needs. She's demonstrated blade and shield forms when fighting Rok. Besides using it as a weapon, she has also used it as a splint when she broke her leg and as a rope when Dal rescued her from the vines. She can control it over long distances, allowing her to summon it to her even when isolated in different rooms. She could even reassemble it when it is shattered into small pieces, albeit with some difficulty.
• Omniglot: Speaks an enormous variety of languages, without the aid of a universal translator. This makes her a translator for Tars Lamora, although she notes a redundancy here in that Drednok has the programming to do the same.
• The Paragon Always Rebels: The most noble of her father's enforcers, and makes her Heel–Face Turn by the end of "Terror Firma".
• Psychic Block Defense: Gwyn is resistant to telepathy, a trait which seems to be inherent to the Vau N'Akat species. This evidently has limits though, since it wasn't enough to stop the superorganism on "Murder Planet" from reading her mind and figuring out her greatest desire. Presumably, its spores physically infiltrating her body allowed it to bypass the defense.
• Spanner in the Works: While the crew's hostage, she has proven to be this more than once.
  • While the crew is attempting to escape the gravitational pull of a dying star, she drains the ship's power using the vehicle replicator for her own escape.
  • While the others are exploring an alien world, she escapes, takes control of the ship, and contacts her father. Her attempt to escape while the vines have the ship ensnared is unsuccessful and she winds up marooning herself and the other children.
• Statuesque Stunner: Taller than even Hologram Janeway.
• Tyke Bomb: While taking control of the Protostar in episode three, she realizes that her father had been specifically training her in the use of the ship’s controls and technology.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: Is able to see through an illusion of her father when it tells her it is proud of her.

Rok-Tahk

Warrant Officer Rok-Tahk

Voiced by: Rylee Alazraqui

A shy, eight-year-old Brikar who loves animals. Acts as the ship's science officer.

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• Animal Lover:
  • This trait is what led her to bring Murf along on the escape, though she had assumed Murf was capable of communication at the time.
  • The superorganism in "Dreamcatcher" uses this to manipulate her by luring her into a trap with the image of dozens of cute fuzzy animals cuddling against her.
  • When the crew's recreational holoprograms get mixed up, her elements are from children's holonovel/game based on a vetinary clinic for adorable alien animals.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Being eight years old, she is the youngest member of the crew.
• The Big Guy: The biggest, toughest, and strongest of the crew by a wide margin, and willing to use it in defense of her friends. Jankom lampshades it in the second episode when Dal sends her to apprehend Gwyn. This becomes a problem in "Time Amok", when everyone figures her as the security officer for this reason, despite her objection.
• Canon Immigrant: She is the first on-screen appearance of a Brikar.
• Cute Giant: She's a Gentle Giant Rock Monster with Innocent Blue Eyes and the voice of an excitable kid.
• Face of a Thug: She knows she's scary-looking to smaller humanoid races at first glance, and she doesn't like it.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She has large, blue eyes, and is the youngest and more innocent member of the crew.
• Meaningful Name: She's a rock that can talk.
• Mighty Glacier: Strong and tough, but not particularly fast. Gwyn easily dances around her when they fight in the pilot, even though she can't damage Rok in turn, and Rok only manages to stop her because the sudden movement of the ship knocks Gwyn off balance, allowing Rok to grab her. Their second fight plays out similarly, with Gwyn having to stall until she can find a way to counter Rok's impenetrable defense, and the fight ends as soon as Rok can pin her down.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: A truck-sized boulder dropped on her head does absolutely nothing, and Gwyn's blade deflects harmlessly off her rocky skin.
• Samus Is a Girl: Dal initially mistakes her for an adult male before they encounter the U.S.S. Protostar and her translation devices.
• The Slow Path: Thanks to a temporal anomaly both slowing time and halting her ageing, she spent weeks, months, possibly even years alone on the ship, learning the necessary disciplines to solve the threat of the week.
• Smarter Than You Look: Despite being both young and a rock monster, she is smarter than people tend to give her credit for, though naive. In "Time Amok", she ends up spending years learning various scientific disciplines while stuck in a temporal anomaly that causes her to experience time very slowly.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The pink skin and shape of her face are the main ways of identifying her gender, other than the Vocal Dissonance.
• Took a Level in Badass: In “Time Amok”, her time is slowed down by a temporal anomaly, forcing her to teach herself advanced programming, engineering, and mathematics to save Janeway and repair the warp core.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Rok's upper body is huge, but she has stubby little legs.
• Vocal Dissonance: Has a giant, stoney body… and the voice of a child. That said, this appears to be a function of the universal translator, as her voice without it is still the deep, craggy voice you'd expect from a large rock monster.
• Wrestling Monster: She used to be the monster in a "Hero versus Monster" staged fight arena, but after she got sick of being huge and scary, she turned one show into a slapstick farce. It pleased the crowd, but not her owners, who sold her to Tars Lamora in punishment for going off-script.
• Younger Than They Look: Despite being the largest of the crew, she is also the youngest at eight years old.

Zero

Warrant Officer Zero

Voiced by: Angus Imrie

A Medusan—a noncorporeal, genderless, energy-based lifeform—who wears a containment suit to stop others from going mad at the sight of them. They serve as the ship's pilot and medic as the need arises.

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• Ace Pilot: Seems to have real skill at piloting, a trait stated to be common among their species when they were originally introduced. Downplayed, as unlike their counterpart in The Original Series, they have to figure out the controls on the fly, instead of having someone experienced with the controls to piggyback off of.
• Brown Note Being: Zero's unfiltered true form causes irreversible madness in almost all sentient beings who look upon them. This is a step down from the last time there was a Medusan in the series, who also caused death soon after exposure. Somewhat justified as it was stated seeing the Medusan true form would do that to humans. Some species, like Vulcans, were capable of viewing Medusans, but only with the use of a specially filtered visor. Zero is also a fair bit younger than the one Spock encountered, which might blunt the effect.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Possibly the most civil member of the crew, but is more than willing to Mind Rape the evil overlord who’s been keeping them captive for years...
• Brutal Honesty: Zero has no filter whatsoever.
• The Bus Came Back: The first on-screen appearance of a Medusan since the species' debut in an episode of the original series.
• Canon Immigrant: Zero's name and character concept as a non-corporeal alien in a containment suit seems to be lifted straight from the unrealized "Star Trek: Final Frontier" cartoon.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Manages to build a functional containment suit out of random scrap that can also hover and emote to an extent... without hands or even a corporeal form.
• Hive Mind: They mention in "Kobayashi" that being taken from a Medusan hive mind was sad for them.
• Little Green Man in a Can: Zero wears a containment suit to prevent other people from seeing their true form.
• Mind Rape: The Diviner used them for this against their will, exposing slaves to their true form to render them compliant.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Zero takes great satisfaction in forcing the Diviner to see their true, unshielded form, but they're horrified and immediately retreat to the containment suit once they realize that Gwyn has caught the reflection.
• Nightmare Fetishist: They find everything in the galaxy absolutely fascinating, even the stuff that's trying to kill them. Especially the stuff that's trying to kill them.
• No Biological Sex: Medusans are neither male nor female.
• Non-Action Guy: Zero's body isn't built for combat. Their one attempt to fight a security drone hand-to-hand was met with a No-Sell, and their aim with a phaser is terrible. They do have one potent weapon but they're understandably reluctant to use it... most of the time.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: Zero flat out states they don't have a gender due to having No Biological Sex, though the dialogue seems to go out of its way to avoid addressing them with pronouns most of the time.
• No Sense of Personal Space: In a telepathic sense. Zero has no problem casually reading the minds of the rest of the crew, and even sees the fact that they're friends as a reason to do so, rather than having any expectation of privacy. Having grown up in a Hive Mind that didn't have regular contact with sentient species, Zero sees this as typical behavior.
• The Smart Guy: Zero is the most scientifically-knowledgeable of the crew when they first come together. In "Time Amok", they have already figured out the temporal anomaly and how to correct it within minutes of it happening.
• Telepathy: Zero communicates telepathically and can read minds, which allows them to get around the lack of a universal translator. Zero's suit also appears to have some means of projecting their voice, however, since Zero can be heard over comms.
• Verbal Tic: "Hoot hoot" seems to be Zero's way of expressing excitement and/or amusement.

Jankom Pog

Warrant Officer Jankom Pog

Voiced by: Jason Mantzoukas

A 16-year-old Tellarite who always plays devil's advocate. Acts as the ship's engineer.

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• Artificial Limbs: His right hand has been replaced with a prosthetic multi tool.
• Bait-and-Switch: "How is this even a debate? Rescuing the miners is a bad call...that Jankom Pog couldn't be happier to make with you dumb-dumbs!"
• Big Eater: The second he learns that the replicators don't require money, he orders a massive plate of Tellarite cuisine.
• Commander Contrarian: Argues simply for the sake of it, even pointing out that it's better to have someone giving an opposing viewpoint than an unthinking Yes-Man. Dal lampshades that it's typical for a Tellarite.
• Extendable Arms: Can launch his prosthetic hand via grappling wire.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Manages to get the Protostar flight-worthy inside a day, reasoning that if you've seen one starship, you've seen them all.
• Humans Are Ugly: The Holo Janeway is the first image of a human he's ever seen, and he expresses disgust at her appearance. Janeway gets a good dig in response, which he approves of.
• Insult of Endearment: He sometimes calls his crewmates "dumb-dumbs". No surprise coming from a Tellarite.
• Percussive Maintenance: Explicitly names the trope as part of his technique.
• Really 700 Years Old: He was born before Tellar even joined the Federation, having been preserved as a teenager through cryostasis.
• Sleeper Starship: Jankom was part of a pre-Federation deep space expedition, wherein orphans were gathered up and launched into deep space in hibernation.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He starts putting on airs after learning his people were a founding member of the Federation, claiming it makes him "practically royalty". However, when he finally meets another Tellarite, he's not only mocked for this attitude, but told that his last name means "runt" and that he's pretty much at the bottom of the social ladder.
• Third-Person Person: Almost always refers to himself in the third person. We eventually learn that this was a habit he developed as a result of having to deal with a maintenance robot that could only understand him if he gave his full name.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Not as extreme as Rok, but he's built rather stout with a disproportionate upper body.
• Younger Than They Look: He's listed in official materials as being 16 but, being a Tellarite and all, he looks like a 30- to 40-year-old by human standards, to say nothing of the time he spent in stasis on a sleeper ship as a child. In terms of birth date, Jankom is older than the entire crew combined, having been born before the Tellarites even joined the Federation.

Hologram Janeway

Captain Kathryn Janeway (Emergency Training Hologram)

Voiced by: Kate Mulgrew

A holographic AI of Kathryn Janeway, one of the most decorated Starfleet officers ever, acting as the Protostar's emergency training program. For tropes relating to the original Kathryn Janeway, see here.

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• Costume Evolution: In "A Moral Star", she switches from the original Janeway's Deep Space Nine/Voyager era uniform to the Prodigy era uniform when the rest of the crew suits up for the first time. Then she has an Evil Costume Switch when Drednok reprograms her.
• Deadpan Snarker: Janeway's wit is clearly integrated into the program, as seen when she trades barbs with Jankom.
• Hard Light: At first, this is averted, even though Starfleet holograms usually have the capability. Gwyn adds the functionality to her program in "A Moral Star".
• Heroic Sacrifice: She sacrifices herself to destroy the Protostar and the Living Construct, saving the rest of the crew and all of Starfleet.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Her memory files have been intentionally corrupted, leaving her unaware of her past time with the Protostar when it was actually crewed by Starfleet. All we know is that Drednok and the Diviner were somehow involved, though Drednok denies being responsible for her memory loss.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Dal and the others initially didn't inform her of their true status as refugees escaping the Diviner. Subverted in Episode 8 when he finally admits it to her.
  • She is not aware of the huge chunk of Classified Information in the Protostar's computer until Gwyn decodes it.
• Loyal to the Position: She immediately switches sides to serve Gwyn, after Gwyn rewrites her programming to recognize Gwyn as the captain. Subverted when Drednok rewrites her, as she seems to be on Drednok and the Diviner's side but is in fact in appearance only and still fully loyal to the Protostar crew.
• Manchurian Agent: Unwittingly has been against the crew from the very start due to having been influenced by the Construct, culminating in her taking over the ship and steering it directly to the Dauntless and Federation space. The real Janeway purges the infection which also restores her memory of what happened to Chakotay and the Protostar.
• The Mentor: Acts as one to the fledgling crew. As she explains, she only maintains the lower-level systems, while operation of the ship as a whole falls on the crew.
• Ms. Exposition: Introduces the children to the world of Star Trek as a whole, specifically the Federation, Starfleet, and the values they represent. She also has a tendency to introduce the theme of the episode.
• Must Have Caffeine: A trait inherited from the original Janeway; she'll generate a cup of coffee out of thin air, despite being a hologram.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She's horrified when she realizes that she was secretly programmed to hijack the ship and get it to the Federation if the crew wavered and deactivates herself in remorse. When the real Janeway shows up, she says she knows exactly how bad the holo-Janeway is beating herself up.
• Mythology Gag: When discussing the holodeck with Dal and Jankom, she mentions having a preference to a Jane Eyre-like program, which the flesh Janeway used on Star Trek: Voyager.
• Projected Woman: Not the true Janeway, but a hologram with her form and personality. She is aware that she is a facsimile of Janeway.
• Super Gullible: Janeway takes the crew at their word that they're cadets after drawing that conclusion herself, despite it being a fairly transparent lie the real Janeway no doubt would have seen right through. She's genuinely shocked when Dal admits the truth. Presumably, like the Doctor, she would have to be in service for a while to develop beyond her base programming.
• Token Human: Token image of a human, at least. So more like the closest thing to a human.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "A Moral Star", Gwyn upgrades her program with security protocols to prevent her from being reprogrammed and the ability to make her projection solid, allowing her to fight.
• Trigger Phrase: The word "help", regardless of context, summons her program, though she can also respond to her name and is apparently consistently "on" even if her avatar is not physically present.
• What Would X Do?: During "Terror Firma" when the planet's vines are attacking the ship, holo-Janeway considers what the physical Janeway would do to defend the ship.
  "Clean house."

Murf

Warrant Officer Murf

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

A Mellanoid slime worm. Acts as the Team Pet (and after a metamorphosis, de facto security officer).

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• Batman Can Breathe in Space: A minute or two in the vacuum of space has no effect on him.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Feeds on metal, can survive in a vacuum, is so tough that he can contain a compressed protostar in his stomach, and undergoes a chrysalis in the latter half of season 1 that transforms him into a bipedal form.
• Blob Monster: And an adorable one to boot!
• Extreme Omnivore: He loves to eat metal, devouring whatever tools or metal objects he can get his mouth on.
• Hidden Depths: Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to jazz singer Mr. Murfy No Shoes!
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Eating a box of photon grenades doesn't harm him at all. Gives him gas, though.
• No Name Given: His species was not named in an intelligible language onscreen until "Asylum" at which point he is identified as a mellanoid slime worm.
• Rubber Man: Shows some of these traits in his more humanoid form.
• Team Pet: Acts as this, as he plays no real part in the running of the ship. After his "metamurfosis", however, he becomes a more active combatant and security chief.
• The Unintelligible: Translator Microbes have no effect on his language and no one can understand it, assuming he even has a language.

Captain Chakotay

Chakotay

Voiced by: Robert Beltran

A Starfleet officer turned Maquis rebel turned Starfleet officer again. Formerly the first officer of U.S.S. Voyager under Captain Janeway, then commanding officer of U.S.S. Protostar. Currently MIA. For his original appearance, go here.

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• Rank Up: He's become a Captain since his return from the Delta Quadrant.
• Uncertain Doom: The Protostar ran into a temporal anomaly that shot it into the future after Solum's devastating civil war following first contact with Starfleet. The ship was captured and rigged as a Trojan Horse against the Federation, but Chakotay sent it back to the past on autopilot before the Vau N'Akat could board it. What happened to him after that isn't revealed. Things are further muddled by the creation of a second anomaly that leads to a point in the timeline prior to Chakotay launching the Protostar, so there's an iteration of Chakotay that is definitely still alive and a later one that may or may not be.

U.S.S. Protostar

U.S.S. Protostar (NX-76884)

An experimental Federation starship that wound up in the Delta Quadrant under unknown circumstances.

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• Cardboard Prison: Gwyn escapes the brig two episodes in a row because of the obvious limitations of the Force-Field Door.
• Cool Starship: Naturally. She draws traits from quite a few Starfleet vessels: a compact size reminiscent of the Defiant, a hull design similar to the Nova-class like the Equinox, and nacelles that move during protowarp like Voyager. In addition, she has a third nacelle hidden in the engineering hull that emerges during protowarp.
• Critical Staffing Shortage: Zero estimates that the ship would likely be crewed by twenty people under normal circumstances. It's presently crewed by five whose qualifications lag far behind actual Starfleet officers.
• Driving Question: How the Protostar ended up buried beneath Tars Lamora, and what happened to the original crew, is the mystery that drives the first season.
• Dyson Sphere: Played with. The Protostar has a compressed protostar powering its protowarp engine.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Zig-zagged. As revealed in "Preludes", during her original mission under Chakotay, the Protostar was pulled through an unstable temporal rift and ended up fifty years into the future, where it was captured by the Vau N'Akat. After they installed the Living Construct onboard, Chakotay was able to remotely send the ship back through the rift to keep it from being used against Starfleet. The ship ended up in the 2360s and buried beneath Tars Lamora, where it remained until found by Dal and Rok in the pilot episode (set in 2384). The Protostar has thus managed to wind up back to a point after it was declared lost, just with some troubling future tech and a missing crew.
• Force-Field Door: Like many vessels in Star Trek, the brig uses a force field door to keep prisoners in. Like many vessels in Star Trek, it can't keep a prisoner contained when it loses power.
• The Heavy: With the Diviner defeated and not as big of a threat (despite remaining as the Big Bad for the second half of Season 1) the ship and its systems (including Hologram Janeway) become the biggest threat when the crew discovers its true nature as a Trojan Horse against Starfleet.
• Hope Bringer: Zero describes the ship as a reason for hope and its first flight in the hands of the crew results in cheers from the other enslaved workers at Tars Lamora, by the time of "Starstruck", the Diviner and Drednok have had to suppress an uprising. Even the Diviner himself calls the ship "salvation", just for a different reason.
• Hour of Power: The protostar reactor can shoot the Protostar 4,000 light years across space in just a few minutes, but then immediately powers down and needs time to become operable again. Dialog in "A Moral Star, Part 1" indicates that this takes around ten minutes if a rapid recharge sequence is activated, and presumably a fair bit longer if the ship can't devote all its resources to the task.
• Ludicrous Speed: The ship's protostar reactor allows the ship to achieve protowarp, speed far exceeding regular warp drive. Spending mere minutes in protowarp allows the Protostar to travel 4,000 light years. To put that in perspective, Voyager would have taken 75 years to travel 70,000 light years, so at normal warp speeds a distance of 4,000 light years would equal a journey of slightly over four years.
• MacGuffin: The Diviner covets the ship for some reason, and even knowing what it is capable of, it is not readily apparent why. It turns out that the ship itself isn't as important as the fact that Starfleet will want it back, which is why the Diviner intends to use it as a Trojan Horse.
• Matter Replicator: In addition to standard food replicators, the Protostar has a vehicle replication bay that can assemble an entire shuttle in under an hour.
• Non-Standard Character Design: The Protostar is unusual among Starfleet ships in that her navigational deflector is mounted on the underside of the saucer instead of the engineering hull. Its shuttlebay mounted forward instead of aft as is common in Starfleet design, seemingly to accommodate the retractable third nacelle which takes up most of the engineering section, which is presumably also why the navigational deflector had to be relocated. Finally, she's rather small for her design, seemingly meant for a crew in the double digits, and is heavily automated on top of that for ease of use.
• No Ontological Inertia: A technological variant. Once the Living Construct is taken out of the vicinity and destroyed, the virus it spread to the Starfleet armada ceases its effect and the ships return to normal.
• No OSHA Compliance: The vehicle replicator will keep replicating while there are people on the floor, hanging off the fabrication arms, or even inside the unfinished vehicle as it's being constructed.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: She's rather small for a Starfleet vessel, comparable in size to the Defiant. Like the Defiant, she's overpowered for her size, possessing two warp cores and a third reactor containing a protostar, hence the name. The former are required to stabilize the latter, which requires half the ship's power at any given moment. She's also capable of impressive Beam Spam, firing multiple simultaneous phaser beams from one array.
• The Power of the Sun: The protostar reactor contains a compressed protostar, used as a high-tech booster rocket to give the ship a huge boost of speed in protowarp.
• Starship Luxurious: Downplayed. It's relatively spartan, befitting such a small vessel, with communal bunks and a single mess hall. However, the captain's quarters are huge, with a double bed, terminals, and plenty of storage space. It also has space for a holodeck.
• Trojan Horse: The Diviner hid a device on the ship that uploads a virus to any Starfleet vessel that the Protostar establishes an uplink with. Once infected, the systems go haywire, to the point of causing any available weapons systems to either self-target the vessel and cause it to destroy itself, or target nearby Federation ships if that isn't an option. A deep space communications outpost the crew stop at, once infected, destroyed itself in minutes once the virus took hold.

Holodeck Characters

Characters who make appearances in the holodeck.

Kobayashi Maru Crew

Voiced by: Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Nichelle Nichols (Nyota Uhura, archive recordings), René Auberjonois (Odo, archive recordings), Leonard Nimoy (Spock, archive recordings), James Doohan (Montgomery Scott, archive recordings)

A crew assembled for Dal’s attempt at the Kobayashi Maru simulation, comprised of some of the finest officers in Starfleet history. For tropes related to their original appearances, please see their respective pages.

• Spock
• Uhura and Scotty
• Beverly Crusher and The ''Enterprise''-D
• Odo

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• Fake Shemp: Spock, Scotty, Odo, and Uhura’s dialogue are composed of audio recordings from their respective series and films.
• Internal Homage:
  • The Enterprise-D is used as the base ship for the test, while the Klingons use Birds of Prey. At the time the episode aired, the D had been destroyed in battle with the Klingons (to be more precise, her stardrive section suffered a warp core breach after a narrow victory while the saucer crash-landed and was no longer spaceworthy). Star Trek: Picard revealed in Season 3 that Geordi had secretly rebuilt her.
  • Scotty is seen wearing a naval-style uniform from the later TOS-era films, while the rest of the cast wear their uniforms from their respective shows.
• The Mentor: Spock takes on the role at the end of Kobayashi to give Dal crucial advice.
• The McCoy: Crusher fulfill this role in the Kobayashi, advocating that they should save lives, despite the potential political consequences.

Tars Lamora

The Diviner

The Diviner

Voiced by: John Noble

The mysterious and tyrannical ruler of the Tars Lamora prison colony and Gwyn's father.

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• Abusive Parents:
  • Of the emotionally cold variety. So awful is his treatment of his daughter that an illusion of him mildly praising her is an immediate red flag.
  • One episode later, he (albeit with some remorse) chooses claiming the Protostar over rescuing Gwyn from the vines.
• Arc Villain: Set up as the primary threat the children will face. Rules Tars Lamora with an iron fist and desires the U.S.S. Protostar for mysterious reasons. Is ultimately defeated in the first mid-season finale.
• Big Bad: Of the first season.
• Broken Pedestal: He was actually on the pro-Federation side during the controversy that erupted following first contact, excited by the promises they offered. However, when the debate turned into a destructive civil war and the Federation refused to take sides, he saw this as a betrayal, which developed into a fanatical hatred for them after the war almost wiped his people out.
• Dark Lord on Life Support: Spends much of the pilot in a tank of some sort. He trades the tank for a suit in the following episode. It has lines full of some kind of vital fluid; when one is severed, he's weakened and sputtering.
• Evil Is Petty: When he forces a Hostage for MacGuffin scenario on the crew, his intention is to leave them on the asteroid with no way to escape. When they instead barter for the Rev-12, he accepts, only to destroy its power generator on his way out so they'll all die, just because he has that much contempt for his slaves.
• Evil Old Folks: A frail old man who is nonetheless a brutal slave driver and a vile racist.
• Fantastic Racism: Views anyone not of his own species as a lesser being. His plan would save his race at the cost of many others even though diplomacy would work just as well, just because he doesn't care if they live or die.
• Fate Worse than Death: He's driven insane by exposure to Zero's true form, and reduced to a prisoner within his own damaged mind as a result. He eventually recovers, albeit after being amnesic for some time.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: Is faced with one in "Terror Firma": claiming the Protostar or rescuing his daughter. He chooses the former, though he at least has the decency to regret that decision when Gwyn calls him out on it later.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: The Protostar is integral to his plans in some fashion, to the point he won't even risk damaging it.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Is beaten the first time when Zero, the being he used to Mind Rape miners into submission for years, turns their power against him.
  • He's ultimately killed at Asencia's hands with the very weapon he gave Gwyn.
• Hope Crusher: Flat-out states that "hope has no purpose" on Tars Lamora.
• Hypocrite:
  • He thinks the Federation are hypocrites and liars for preaching about a better future. Pretty rich coming from a guy who is everything he accuses them of being and worse. This goes double when his true plan is revealed. He sees the Federation as having ruined the future of his people through first contact, when he and others like him rejecting their ideology of coexistence is what led his people to ruin.
  • As Gwyn points out, rather than talk to the Federation about how First Contact will cause a devastating civil war that will end up destroying his homeworld in the future, he plans to use the Protostar as a Trojan Horse to destroy the entire Federation, causing mass death and devastation on an even grander scale than what happened on Solum, trading one catastrophe for another.
• I Owe You My Life: He releases Admiral Janeway (actually Dal in her body) from her restraints after entering the room with the apparent intention to kill her and explains that while he is not abandoning his mission, he is still humbled by her kindness and feels it necessary to repay her for saving his life.
• It's All About Me: He only cares about himself and his mission, and will exploit anyone he has to in order to accomplish it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Every time he shows signs of Hidden Depths, such as expressing concern for his daughter's safety, he promptly throws it away in pursuit of his goals. And that goal is to save his own people by destroying another.
• Lack of Empathy: His daughter and maybe Drednok are the only beings he shows any regards for, and even the former is highly conditional, as is shown when he abandons her for the Protostar. His ultimate plan to use the Protostar as a Trojan Horse to make Starfleet tear itself apart would cause far more devastation than what happened on Solum, and he rejects Gwyn's point that he could just talk to the Federation to prevent the disaster because he seemingly has that little regard for any beings not his own species.
• Last of His Kind: He claimed to have been the last of the Vau N'Akat until he created Gwyn. The truth is more complicated: he comes from an alternate future where First Contact with his people by the Federation caused a division between those who wanted to join and those who didn't, devastating their world. He and ninety nine others traveled back in time to use the Protostar to destroy Starfleet before that could happen, though his companions were lost in transit and presumed dead. So his species still exists in the present, but as far as he knows he's the last future Vau N'Akat. Until he was found by Asencia.
• Never My Fault:
  • He blames Starfleet for the destruction of his people, as they tore themselves apart in a civil war over isolationism vs acceptance. Everything we've seen of the Diviner suggests people as regressive as he is now are the reason his people destroyed themselves. This is made even worse by the fact that the Diviner is keenly aware that the worst elements of his society are the reasons it crumbled, as he was on the opposite side of the conflict until there was barely anyone left.
  • His rationale for Gwyn betraying him is "She met a boy." Even if one were to be extremely charitable towards Dal as a positive influence, Gwyn's Heel–Face Turn was a Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal brought on by the Diviner prioritizing the Protostar over her, a fact he even acknowledged in the mid-season finale. At best, it was Dal's kidnapping of her that put her in a position where he had to choose his mission over her.
• Non-Action Big Bad: He's not much good in a fight, and relies on Drednok to bust heads on his behalf.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims the Protostar to be the salvation of his people, but his actions demonstrate a contempt for others that sails past disregard into actual malice. He causes pain and suffering because he can, not because he feels it's necessary. "A Moral Star" reveals his people destroyed themselves in a civil war after first contact with Starfleet, and the Diviner traveled back in time to destroy the entire Federation just to safeguard the future of his own people, showing no regard for the lives he would ruin.
• Ominous Floating Castle: His base of operations on Tars Lemora, the Rev-12, doubles as a starship.
• Powered Armor: His life support armor seems to compensate for his physical weakness, allowing him to make an impressive leap in "Terror Firma" when escaping the vines.
• Psychic Block Defense: He is resistant to telepathy, a trait which seems to be inherent to the Vau N'Akat species. Zero is only able to divine a basic intent from attempting to read his mind, without any specific details. Like Gwyn, this doesn't protect him from the spores of the telepathic organism on "Murder Planet".
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: The life support suit he dons in "Starstruck" certainly gives off this vibe, as does the design of his starship base.
• Redemption Equals Death: He tries to save Gwyn from the Vindicator and is killed for it.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: He is from the future, from a time where his people destroyed themselves in a civil war after learning that they weren't alone in the universe. He intends to prevent the civil war by preventing first contact. Unfortunately, his solution to that problem is to destroy the entire Federation.
• Start of Darkness: He was actually in favor of joining the Federation and bringing Solum into the interstellar community until the civil war went out of control. His resentment of Starfleet not intervening lead him to believe that they were liars and traitors.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Confirmed by the writers to be one of Khan Noonien Singh, as a powerful tyrant who's trying to save his people. He also has a lot in common with Nero, being the Last of His Kind from the future who seeks revenge on the Federation at any cost.
• Truly Single Parent: He created Gwyn as an Opposite-Sex Clone of himself to complete his mysterious mission if necessary after his death.
• Villainous Cheekbones: His are quite pronounced, and he's most definitely a villain.

Drednok

Drednok

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Voiced by: Jimmi Simpson

The Diviner's main enforcer.

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• Arch-Enemy: He seems to have a specific hatred of Dal. He bullies him while Dal is a prisoner on Tars Lamora, tries to kill him during their escape attempt, and aims for him first when attempting to gun down the crew on the vine planet.
• Arm Cannon: His hands can turn into blasters.
• Combat Tentacles: Armed with a pair of these on his back.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Drednok is also the name of his "species". Each Vau N'Akat that went back in time brought one along.
• The Dragon: He's the Diviner's second in command and enforcer, though he initially shares this role with Gwyn.
• The Dreaded: Everyone on Tars Lamora is terrified of him, and for good reason.
• Evil Overlooker: He looms over the Protostar in the opening credits.
• Flat Character: The Vindicator's Drednok, having not been active as long as the Diviner's and forced to stay in hiding for most of that time, lacks the sadistic edge of the original, being a mere bodyguard/muscle for the Vindicator.
• The Heavy: Keeps the Diviner's slaves in line and is capable of going up against a freaking starship.
• Love Is a Weakness: Shown to believe this in a flashback to Gwyn's birth. He attempts to discourage the Diviner from creating a child by arguing that his emotional attachment to her could be used against him. He directly tells Gwyn that creating her was the Diviner's greatest mistake.
• Mecha-Mooks: One of many Killer Robots built by the Vau N'Akat during their civil war.
• Morph Weapon: His body can shift into a starship-grade particle weapon.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name sounds a lot like dreadnought, and boy does he live up to it.
• Off with His Head!: Decapitated by the Caitian child, of all characters, in "A Moral Star, Part 2".
• One-Winged Angel: Drednok normally looks vaguely humanoid, but when he's forced into battle in the pilot, he reveals himself to actually be a quadrupedal Starfish Robot armed with two Combat Tentacles and various ranged weaponry.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are red and he is dangerous.
• Remote Body: Simply knowing where the Protostar is allows him to transmit a copy of himself to the ship to be assembled by the vehicle replicator, even when he's thousands of light years away.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Traveled back in time with the Diviner to recover the Protostar and use it against Starfleet.
• Shout-Out: The "Dreadnoks" are a villainous outlaw biker gang turned mercenary troupe in G.I. Joe.
• SkeleBot 9000: Design-wise, he's a cross between a Terminator and General Greivous.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Barely ever raises his voice, and is a nasty piece of work.

Caitian Child

Caitian Child

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (pre-translator), Rania Sharkawy (post-translator)

A juvenile Caitian sold into slavery on Tars Lamora.

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• Badass Adorable: Leads a slave revolt to save Rok and Jankom in "A Moral Star, Part 2" and is the one who delivers the killing blow to Drednok.
• Cute Kitten: She's a young felinoid alien, and she's adorable.

U.S.S. Dauntless crew

Admiral Janeway

Vice-Admiral Kathryn Janeway

Voiced by: Kate Mulgrew

The commanding officer of the U.S.S. Voyager-A, and the person on whom Hologram Janeway's personality and appearance are based on. Formerly commanded the U.S.S. Voyager and the U.S.S. Dauntless.

For tropes on her original appearance, see Voyager.

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• The Ace: She's commanding a Dauntless class starship, has an entire compliment of elite officers at her side, and manages to persuade the Federation into letting a group of alien refugees join her as Warrant Officers to rescue one of her oldest friends by successfully arguing before the entire Federation Council about the Protostar's crew's efforts to save an organization they never knew existed for so long. Not only that, but she manages to launch another starship lineage from her original vessel by commissioning a new Voyager— a distinction not afforded to any other vessel besides the Enterprise before her.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • Of Janeway's character on Voyager. Sure, Janeway was always championing Starfleet principles, and is indeed one of their most exemplary officers, but she made a lot of hard calls to protect her crew during the seven-year-stay in the Delta Quadrant. It might have worked out for her then, but back in Federation space, those hard calls don't fly anymore. In her mission to rescue Chakotay, her crew has to reign her in from literally inciting a war when she's prepared to violate the Neutral Zone with the Romulans in order to catch the Protostar, hellbent on getting answers the crew quite literally can't give without bringing the Dauntless down.
  • This one gets Played for Laughs, but her Must Have Caffeine tendencies are hit with a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome. Doctor Noum puts her on a tea diet because all that coffee is affecting her health.
• Determinator: She's deadset on rescuing Chakotay from whatever befell him in the Delta Quadrant.
• Famed In-Story: One of Starfleet's most famous and decorated captains.
• The Fellowship Has Ended: Her original crew from Voyager left on different paths since they returned from the Delta Quadrant. Tuvok, Tom Paris, and B'Elanna Torres are still serving in Starfleet, Chakotay is lost in time, Seven of Nine quit to form the Fenris Rangers when Starfleet wouldn't accept her on account of her being an ex-Borg, Neelix is still in the Delta Quadrant at the Talaxian homestead, and Harry Kim's status is currently unknown. At the very least, The Doctor will be joining her again in Season 2 to find Chakotay.
• Four-Star Badass: Last seen in Star Trek: Nemesis sporting a set of admirals pips after her triumphant return from the Delta Quadrant, Prodigy wastes little time reminding returning viewers and introducing new ones to exactly why she is a Vice Admiral in Starfleet. As her hologram counterpart puts it:
  Hologram Janeway: The real me is hunting us with a quantum slipstream Dauntless-class starship? Heh. Good luck with that.
• Hero Antagonist: She serves as this to the Protostar's crew during the second half of Season One, as she believes them to be responsible for the theft of the ship and Chakotay's disappearance, and is determined to track them down by any means necessary. The moment she realizes they're not criminals but a bunch of kids escaping slavery, she becomes suspicious of the bounty put on them, starting the process of her turning to their side.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The kids on the Protostar have no way of explaining themselves since contacting her ship will trigger the Trojan Horse set up by the Diviner. She gradually starts to unravel the situation from various clues in their behavior, as well as other details like the bounty put out on them by the Diviner. Eventually she gets the whole story when she winds up in Dal's body through a telepathic mishap, which gives the kids the opportunity to explain everything properly.
• A Mother to Her Men: It doesn't matter if you served under her before or currently; if you're in danger, she will raise hell itself to rescue you. It's given somewhat of a Deconstruction, as Tysess has to remind Janeway not to dive into trying to save Chakotay so recklessly when she's willing to take greater risks to get him back.
• The Mentor: Now that the prodigies have made it to Earth and Holo Janeway is gone, the real Janeway takes the kids under her wing as Warrant Officers.
• Must Have Caffeine: Judging from the size of her mug, Janeway's love for coffee hasn't waned in the slightest since the events of Voyager. Unfortunately for her, she had to switch to tea on doctor's orders. She wants a second (i.e. pro-coffee) opinion.
• Patrick Stewart Speech: She may not be the Trope Namer, but she gives one that could give Picard a run for his money by convincing the entire Federation Council to accept the prodigies as Warrant Officers, noting how they went from not even knowing about Starfleet in the first place to saving the entire organization all on their own merits.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Once she makes contact with the crew of the Protostar she starts having doubts about her mission to capture them, noting that they're just kids rather than the thieves she was expecting. In the season 1 finale she successfully goes up against Starfleet Command over letting Dal join Starfleet with the rest of his friends since being a genetically modified human makes him inelligible.
• You Have to Believe Me!: After Dal's bizarre behavior in her body gets her removed from command and locked in the brig, she begs the security officer to understand that she's herself again and that she has vital information. The security officer happens to be someone she rescued in the Delta Quadrant, but she doesn't release Janeway quite soon enough to prevent disaster.

Commander Tysess

Commander Tysess

Voiced by: Daveed Diggs

Janeway's Andorian first officer.

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• Number Two: Janeway's current second-in-command, since Chakotay was promoted to captain and assigned to command the Protostar.
• The Spock: Although he's an Andorian and not a Vulcan, he acts in the same capacity and with a similar thought process, urging Janeway not to let her emotions drive her to recklessness to save Chakotay.

Doctor Noum

Doctor Noum

Voiced by: Jason Alexander

Janeway's Tellarite medical officer.

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• Doctor Jerk: Has a very abrasive personality. Justified in that he's a Tellarite, for whom this is a cultural trait.
• Insufferable Genius: He makes sure that everyone around him knows that he's a brilliant doctor and they'd be lost without him.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When he meets Jankom, he begins interacting with him as he would any Tellarite—starting an argument. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that Jankom has had very little experience with his own culture, and unwittingly says something that legitimately upsets Jankom. As a result, he and Admiral Janeway lose a chance to learn about the Diviner's plan before it's too late.

Ensign Asencia

Ensign Asencia

Voiced by: Jameela Jamil

Janeway's navigator. Though she appears to be a Trill, she's actually another Vau N'Akat called the Vindicator working undercover.

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• Ensign Newbie: In her Trill guise, she behaves as a plucky young ensign willing to go above and beyond.
• Evil Brit: While she has an American accent in her Trill disguise, she speaks with a British accent once her antagonistic role is revealed.
• The Mole: She infiltrated Janeway's crew to find the Protostar.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: The Vindicator does whatever she can to fulfill her goal. She jump-starts the Diviner's memory to get him back on track, sets their plan to bring the Dauntless in contact with the Protostar while removing Janeway from the picture, gets Jellico's authorization to answer the fatal hail, and kills the Diviner when he proves to be more attached to Gwyn than vengeance.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: She manages to escape the Protostar with her Drednok after mortally wounding the Diviner.
• Viler New Villain: Unlike the Diviner, the Vindicator has no mercy for Gwyn, dismissing her as a burden and not a truly one of the Vau N'Akat, and doesn't hesitate to mortally wound the Diviner when he tries to save his daughter.
• Would Hurt a Child: She has no compunctions about killing Gwyn, regardless of the Diviner's sentiments.

U.S.S. Dauntless

U.S.S. Dauntless (NCC-80816)

A Federation Dauntless-class Quantum Slipstream starship commanded by Admiral Janeway.

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• Defictionalization: In-universe, the original Dauntless was an alien vessel made up to look like an advanced Starfleet prototype by an alien seeking revenge on Voyager (see VOY: "Hope and Fear"). For whatever reason, Starfleet or Janeway specifically decided to make an almost identical version of the ship and put it into service. According to Janeway's Instagram logs, B'Elanna Torres is responsible for building it. The producers would later clarify as to why Starfleet decided to make the U.S.S. Dauntless a reality. Here's an example:
  Aaron J. Waltke: VOY took detailed scans of Arturis' ship, stem to stern — enough that they were able to build their own partially working quantum slipstream with their limited resources in the [delta quadrant]. When experimenting with QS to perfect it, Starfleet reverse engineered designs they knew worked!

U.S.S. Voyager-A Crew

The Doctor

The Doctor

I'm a doctor, not a butler.

Voiced by: Robert Picardo

A sentient Emergency Medical Hologram Mark 1 designed by Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, who was previously assigned to the U.S.S. Voyager when it was stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Having been forced to assume the role of Chief Medical Officer due to the death of much of the ship's medial staff during the unexpected transition, he grew beyond his programming to become an integral part of the crew.

For tropes on his original appearance, see Voyager.

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• The Bus Came Back: Season 2 marks The Doctor's first appearance since the end of Voyager.
• Character Aged with the Actor: Zig-zagged. Physically, the Doctor's appearance is unchanged from VOY — which makes sense, given the EMH Program's default avatar template is, for all intents, ageless (and also benefits from Picardo not having to reprise the role in live-action). Vocally, however, Picardo (much like Kate Mulgrew and Robert Beltran) hasn't played the Doctor since the early 2000s and his voice has unsurprisingly aged and changed in that interim.
• Costume Evolution: He's wearing the 2384 Type B uniform for his return appearance, after having last worn the original Deep Space Nine uniform on Voyager.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He's the spitting image of Robert Picardo.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In the preview for Season 2, the Protostar crew drops their baggage right in front of his feet, leading him to proclaim he's a doctor, not a butler.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Downplayed. He still fits in the show's overall art style, but his uniform bears his mobile holo-emitter on his left arm—something the other characters obviously lack given they're not sentient holograms.
• Uncertain Doom: The show's second season takes place around 2384, but very shortly, Starfleet will ban sentient A.I. because of the terrorist attack on Mars, meaning he'll likely be shut down.

U.S.S. Voyager-A

U.S.S. Voyager (NCC-74656-A)

A Lamarr-class vessel, the second ship to bear the name Voyager in Starfleet and a successor to the Intrepid-class Voyager previously commanded by Captain Janeway. She has begun the second biggest legacy next to the Enterprise herself as she heads the mission to rescue Chakotay and the crew of the Protostar from the temporal anomaly.

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• Composite Character: While she's the heir to the Voyager name, and features at least two of her previous crew, she has some design elements borrowed from the Sovereign class made famous by the Enterprise-E, including a slimmer set of nacelles and a more integrated, trimmed secondary hull. Her elongated shuttle bay also calls to mind the Discovery.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: She's the first of the Voyager legacy previously established by Discovery's Voyager-J.
• Shout-Out: Her class is named after actress and scientist Hedy Lamarr.
• Superior Successor: She's decked out to the nines with all the latest bells and whistles that her predecessor wished they had in the Delta Quadrant, including a larger crew compliment of 800, and two school facilities onboard, not to mention she practically dwarfs the original Voyager.
• Uncertain Doom: Star Trek: Picard revealed that in 2401, a Pathfinder class Voyager-B is set to be placed online, so it begs the question of what fate befell her in between this series and Picard season 3. That said, in the same season, the latest iteration of the Enterprise was being retired despite obviously being still spaceworthy, so Starfleet may simply have adopted a more regular rotation of their most famous vessels to keep up with the latest advances.

Beings of the Universe

Unknown Plant Organism

Unknown Plant Organism

Voiced by: Kate Mulgrew (as Janeway), John Noble (as the Diviner)

A mysterious plant life-form native to an unnamed planet in the Hirogen System in the Delta Quadrant. Its spores allow it to read the mind of any organism that breathes them, and then project that organism's greatest desire into their mind so that they are more willing to stay and be absorbed by it for sustenance.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: The vines live to consume whatever they can, and only communicate to the extent this facilitates capturing prey. Zero's attempt to communicate with the vines telepathically is completely rebuffed; the crew is food to them, nothing more.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: It communicates with Dal through an illusion of Janeway, since it can't find anything to manipulate him with in his memories.
• Genius Loci: According to Zero this organism is the planet it inhabits. It can rearrange the topography at will and even control the weather.
• Hostile Weather: It can create acid rain, which is basically this organism's equivalent to stomach acid.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: Lures and traps its victims with illusions of their greatest desires.
• Out-of-Character Alert: This is how Dal and Gwyn manage to recognize its illusions.
  • When it appears to Dal as Janeway, he remembers that the hologram Janeway can't leave the ship, though it was forced to be more direct since Dal wasn't being fooled by its illusions.
  • When it appears to Gwyn as the Diviner, it tells her that it is proud of her… something Gwyn immediately recognizes as something her father would never do.
• Spanner in the Works: The superorganism ends up breaking the emotional control the Diviner has on Gwyn and any loyalty she has towards him by tricking the Diviner into coming towards an illusion of the Protostar while it consumes Gwyn close by. That the Diviner walks away from his daughter's pleas for help makes her realize just how much more he desires the ship over her.
• Villain Ball: While it can read the minds of its victims well enough to cast highly convincing illusions, with Dal and Gwyn it uses things which both teenagers cannot accept as real and helps them break the illusion.
  • With Dal, it's how while he wants to know about his parents and people, his lack of knowledge of them means there is little to build their appearances on.
  • With Gwyn, while she desperately wants her father's approval and the organism has the fake Diviner say as much, Gwyn also knows in her head her father would never actually say those things.
• When Trees Attack: The vines are able to read the minds of prey and reproduce their greatest desires in order to capture and feed upon them. They're even strong enough to restrain the Protostar.
• Would Hurt a Child: More than willing to absorb and kill the crew, the youngest of whom is eight, for sustenance.

Daimon Nandi

Daimon Nandi

Voiced by: Grey Griffin

A Ferengi con-woman who took in and mentored Dal before selling him into slavery. Like most known Ferengi, she is fixated on profit and the “Ferengi Rules of Acquisition”.

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• Broken Pedestal: Becomes this to Dal after she lets it slip that she sold him to the Diviner.
• Establishing Character Moment: Is first seen faking a distress call with a fake burning ship and fake baby before recognizing Dal and abandoning the ruse.
• Evil Mentor: She raised Dal and taught him most of what he knows before she sold him into slavery. Later, she betrays him along with his crew after they agreed to help her.
• The Fagin: Taught Dal everything he knows about smooth talking and “The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition”.
• Failed a Spot Check: She didn't notice the combadge attached to the crystal she was holding, her fingers inches away from it. This causes it to be beamed away.
• Hate Sink: Any moments of sympathy she might have had goes out the window when she reveals she's a double-crossing scumbag who sold her own adoptive son into slavery for extra profit.
• Treacherous Advisor: Was Dal’s mentor before selling him into slavery for a profit.

The Cymari

An advanced race of ethereal beings who communicate entirely through vibrations. Despite not yet meeting the requirements for First Contact, Daimon Nandi convinces the crew to meet with them for a “diplomatic mission”.

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• Dishing Out Dirt: The species has the ability to control sand, molding it into solid structures and back into dust, through electromagnetic frequencies focused by their remalite crystals.
• Starfish Aliens: Are more visually distinct from most of the franchise’s races, being these ethereal, translucent beings.

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