The hologram of Rok-Tahk was created as a holo-duplicate by Jankom Pog, Zero, and Rok-Tahk in order to trick the crew of the USS Voyager-A. A glitch caused her to have the vocal mannerisms and personality of Jankom Pog.
History[]
In order to escape from the Voyager-A undetected, Jankom Pog, Zero, and Rok-Tahk created sentient holo-duplicates of the USS Protostar crew, giving them the ability to interact with physical matter and the personality of their real selves. This was inspired by the plot of The Doctor's holonovel. However, while the programs were fully integrating, a great deal of confusion occurred as the holo-duplicates came to believe that they were the real crew and the others were the duplicates. As a result, the holograms attempted to undertake the mission themselves, which would have failed as they were limited to existing on Voyager. After the two sets of crew battled each other across the ship, the two Roks actually worked together to come up with a solution in which they would overload the ship's holomatrix, resetting the holo-duplicates to the holodeck with no memories of the mission. However, while this was successful, the holo-duplicates ended up glitching, with each one swapping vocal mannerisms and personality with another: Dal and Zero, Rok and Jankom, Gwyn and Murf. (PRO: "Imposter Syndrome")
The holo-duplicates continued their imperfect impersonation of the originals, which was eventually noticed by Maj'el, particularly after Hologram Gwyn vanished. (PRO: "The Fast and the Curious")
Maj'el brought the matter up to Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway, Commander Tysess, and The Doctor, demonstrating the personality discrepancies using a game of Parrises squares on the holodeck. After Hologram Dal mentioned being a fan of The Doctor's holonovel, the three finally pieced together what had happened and Janeway deactivated the holo-duplicates, aside from Gwyn, who had vanished two days before. By this time, a week had passed since the departure of the originals on the Infinity. (PRO: "Is There in Beauty No Truth?")
Notable Events[]
- Before the personality-swap glitch occurred:
- while the others fought their holo-duplicates, holo-Rok and real Rok were the only ones who put their heads together to come up with a way to figure out who the holo-duplicates were, and declared themselves "Team Rok"
- After the personality-swap glitch occurred:
- holo-Rok talked about herself in the third-person, often displayed verbal agression like Jankom, and frequently mentioned percussive maintenance
- in the mess hall, holo-Rok derisively called Admiral Janeway's coffee "dirt-water"
- on the holodeck, while playing Parrises squares, holo-Rok dished out some very Jankom-esque trash talk, and afterwards made an aggressive comment when The Doctor began to scan her with a tricorder