| “ | You may be fluent in many tongues, Young Progeny, but only I am to speak for Our Diviner's dealings. Do not overstep your boundaries. | „ |
| ~ Drednok to Gwyndala. |
| “ | The mission will not be stopped. Our Divider will prevail. | „ |
| ~ Drednok's last words. |
Drednok is the secondary antagonist in Season 1 of Star Trek: Prodigy, the tenth television series of the Star Trek franchise.
He is a war robot serving as an advisor and right-hand man to the Vau N'Akat from the future known as The Diviner as well as one of the leaders of the chimerium mine penal colony on Tars Lamora in the Quadrant Delta. Along with his master, Drednok attempts to destroy the United Federation of Planets through the USS Protostar following repercussions from Starfleet first contact in the future which apparently led to the extinction of the Vau N'Akat species.
It's later revealed that Drednok is one of a race of identical robots with most serving as foot soldiers in the second season. One Drednok in the present day was known as the Lorekeeper, although he was described as simply being a library with legs. In the first and second season a second bronze colored Drednok served Asencia's plans.
He was voiced by Jimmi Simpson who also played a young William in Westworld, Skip Tyler in White House Down, Ethan in Solar Opposites and Dr. Royce Hemlock in Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
Appearance[]
Drednok's full appearance.
Drednok is a mechanical looking humanoid figure that resembles a silver robot with red glowing eyes and five-fingered hands. Another form of it has four spider-like legs, two tentacles, a head split in the middle and various red lights.
As Lorekeeper, Drednok's metal was gray in color and his eyes were white.
Personality[]
| “ | Gwyn: You gonna get rid of me, and then take the ship? Drednok II: That is against my master's wishes. He cannot see what I know to be true. You are his greatest mistake. |
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| ~ What Drednok really thinks of Gwyn. |
Cold, cruel, menacing, calculating and devoid of compassion, Drednok is however loyal to the Diviner but much more to the mission of The Order of Vau N'Akat to destroy the Federation. Despite his loyalty to his master, Drednok does not share the Diviner's entire outlook, opposing the creation of his daughter, Gwyndala, as in his view she was an affront to The Order and a weakness. Over the next few years, his disdain for Gwyn only grew, not liking her handling business matters to his place. Secretly, he personally wanted to get rid of her but didn't do it because he knew it would go against his master's will.
As one of the leaders of Tars Lamora's slaves whom he denigrates as Unwanted, Drednok is known to instill fear and does not hesitate to use intimidation or even torture to obtain information. Drednok also has no qualms about buying children into slavery, and Gwyn's compassion for them leaves him indifferent. During his hunt for the Protostar and the young fugitives, he doesn't hesitate to pick on Gwyn after she joins the group, viciously admitting that he only sees her as her father's biggest mistake. Much like his master, Drednok has contempt for all that Starfleet and the Federation stand for, as shown by his interaction with Janeway's hologram.
Despite his robotic intelligence, Drednok proved overconfident of his strength when he attempted to overpower the rebelling Unwanted, only to be overpowered by them himself and ultimately disabled. Even then, Drednok remained confident that The Order's mission will not be stopped by anyone.
As Lorekeeper, Drednok is civilized, courteous and focused on sharing knowledge, far removed from the evil robot he is in the future.
Powers and Skills[]
Drednok possesses legs capable of dividing into four arachnid legs granting him a movement speed greater than that of a human. He can also use it to adhere to any surface and jump over long distances.
Drednok's body is particularly resilient, capable of falling from a great height without sustaining damage, was undamaged by the living planet's roots and can easily withstand a phaser. Its durability however had a limit as Drednok was decapitated by the claws of a young Caitian. He can also generate shock tentacles from his back and blaster cannons from his arms.
Drednok is as strong or even stronger than a Brikar, easily stopping Rok-Tahk's fist. He is also a good fighter, easily defeating Rok-Tahk and Jankom Pog. Drednok can also make use of one hand to make holographic imagery in its right hand and he can remotely control Tars Lamora's sentries.
History[]
Drednok and Diviner go back in time through the wormhole.
Drednok was built on the planet Solum by the Vau N'Akat people at an unspecified time with many other Drednoks like him, initially serving as a Lorekeeper in the Ilthuran's observatory. After Starfleet's first contact with Solum, the people were divided between those who refused to give up their previous way of life and those who wanted to join the United Federation of Planets, eventually resulting in a civil war in which many Drednoks took part and many have been destroyed. Fifty years later, Solum was nothing more than a ruin encountered by the time-displaced ship USS Protostar through a cosmic time anomaly, shortly before a group of Drednok captured the crew, also obtaining the codes of various Protostar programs. The group of Vau N'Akat survivors now known as The Order and their Drednoks planted a weapon called the Living Construct in an effort to destroy Starfleet before first contact through the anomaly. Before the Vau N'Akat took flight aboard the Protostar, the Starfleet's captain Chakotay was able to activate the launch of the uncrewed ship into the breach, putting the Vau N'Akat's plans in jeopardy. The Order sent thousands of ships through the breach with a Vau N'Akat and a Drednok at their side to find the Protostar through time, but only Ilthuran now known as the Diviner and Vindicator's ship were able to reach the other end while the others perished in the wormhole collapse, only for the two starships to get lost in two different time periods, with The Diviner and Drednok arriving in 2363.
At the Diviner's request, Dresnok proceeds to create Gwyndala.
In 2366, The Diviner began to weaken after years of searching for the Protostar in the mines of Tars Lamora where it had landed after going through the wormhole, so Drednok placed him in a regeneration vat and then was ordered by his master to create a descendant of him from his blood. Drednok objected, judging it out of defiance of The Order and too much emotional responsibility but Diviner angrily claimed The Order would mean nothing if the Vau N'Akat died out, reluctantly pushing Drednok to design a female clone that the Diviner would see as his daughter, Gwyndala. Drednok was also present when the Medusan prisoner Zero was brought to Tars Lamora.
Season One[]
Drednok interrogates Dal'Rel.
In the two-part pilot, Lost and Found, Drednok and his sentry droids search for the fugitive Zero who had recently escaped. After questioning a few miners, he asks Dal R'El if he's seen Zero, only for the cheeky youngster not to gibberish for nothing. Losing his patience, Drednok grabbed Dal with a tentacle and ominously interrogated him about his species before nearly electrocuting him when he deduced that Dal had sighted Zero. The Medusan watching the scene from an antenna which it sabotages, causing an explosion which draws the intent of Drednok and his minions as Dal takes the opportunity to flee.
"Do not overstep your boundaries."
Later, Drednok and Gwyn encounter Pilot Kazon who usually delivers slaves to them. While Drednok accepts the pilot's offer to only pay half the price for the child Caitian he brought, Gwyn threatens the Kazon with being sent to the mines if he brings another orphan so young. Drednok states that although she is good at speaking several languages, he alone takes care of business on behalf of their Diviner. Gwyn asks him why her father wants her to translate when Drednok is provided with a translation program, only for Drednok to tell her to have trust as the Diviner has a plan for her.
After that, the Diviner assigns his daughter to interrogate Dal whose failed escape attempt to find Zero and as long as she doesn't get anything Drednok will take over. When Gwyn leaves, Drednok notices that Diviner still hasn't told his daughter their true mission, to which Diviner replies that Gwyn isn't ready yet and that he's counting on Drednok to get the boy to talk with his own methods if Gwyn can't do it.
Time passes and Drednok invites himself into Gwyn's quarters as she teaches the female Caitian language culture only to inform herm that Dal is no longer at the Northwest Crevasse where she had sent him to find Zero. Accompanied by sentries, they descend into the uncharted region where they finds Dal coming their way with a seal of Chimerium crystals. As the boy has not found Zero, Drednok loses patience and has Dal taken to work on the surface where the chances of survival are nil. Gwyn protests until Drednok explains that the Diviner ordered this. When Dal manages to escape after a landslide but it turns out to have been planned by Drednok to lead him to Zero.
Drednok about to finish off Dal.
Accompanied by an army of sentries, Drednok and Gwyn ambush Dal's party of Zero, Rok-Thak and Jankom Pog as they repair the Protostar which Drednok is delighted to see after so many years of searching. Unfortunately for him, the youngsters rebel and manage to beat a retreat in the Protostar whose loss Diviner refuses and obliges Drednok to order the sentries to stop taking advantage, but not soon enough not to break the columns that held the ship. Pursuing the fugitives, Drednok climbs onto the Protostar's hull and confronts Dal trying to bring the shields back online but the robot grabs him before he can reactivate them while saying that he had been waiting for a while to be able to execute it. Zero flips the ship around, briefly causing Drednok to let go, only for him to charge back and launch a deadly aerial attack on Dal. Luckily, the shields reactivate in time, separating Dal from Drednok who slides off the ship.
Surviving his fall, Drednok turns his arms into a cannon but before he can fire, the Diviner reminds him not to damage the Protostar, which Drednok had already figured out before firing the surface exit, causing it to collapse multiple rocky debris that even the Protostar's shields cannot protect fleeing. Despite Drednok's attempt to stop them, the gang managed to flee from Tars Lamora with Gwyn now as their captive.
"Agreed. Shall The Unwanted continue to extract chimerium?"
In Starstruck, Drednok goes to see his master coming out of his healing box who asks him for a report on the riots. Drednok claims that regaining control of the Unwanted only cost a minimum loss but the Diviner reacts furiously to this statement as losing the Protostar and his daughter is not a minimum. Drednok then asks if the extraction of the Chimerium should continue, to which the Diviner decides to cruelly amp up the Unwanted's work so that their fatigue will prevent another rebellion and to have all of the Chimerium to retrieve the Protostar before ordering Drednok to prepare the Rev-12. Once the massive ship emerges from the ground of Tars Lamora, Drednok and the Diviner set out to chase the Protostar.
In Dream Catcher, Drednok is contacted by Gwyn from the Protostar.
Drednok shoots Gwyn.
In Terror Firma, Thanks to the coordinates sent by Gwyn, the Rev-12 arrives in orbit of the planet Murder where the fugitives are currently blocked. The next day, Drednok faces the gang. Jankom initially mistakes him for an illusion generated by the planet until he fires into the Mek'leh that the Tellarite had in his hands. He congratulates Gwyn for bringing him here then orders her to move away from the fugitives but she intervenes to protect them. Losing patience as Gwyn ignores his final warning, Drednok shoots Gwyn's splint down and is about to shoot the others fleeing when he suddenly gets attacked by the living planet's roots but he breaks free using its arachnid limbs and resumes its hunt, only to pass by the youngsters hidden out of sight.
Later, he is joined by his master who has just escaped a root attack and then informs him that Gwyn has betrayed them, the latter fleeing in the Protostar with the other fugitives after his father abandons her in favor of the ship. They then attempt to capture them during the warp but the tape eludes them once more after they figure out how to activate the Proto-Drive.
In Time Amok, Drednok informs the Diviner of another demand on the reward they placed on the Protostar, leaving his master skeptical since a lot of crooks wasted their time. The interested, a female Ferengi named Nandi who had crossed paths with the Protostar crew recently, gives the coordinates of the Starfleet ship but Drednok says it would take them months to get there. However, the Diviner comes up with the idea of digitally transferring a copy of Drednok's memory from the Rev-12 to the Protostar's vehicle synthesizer which the duplicate uses to make a nearly identical body to the original.
Drednok II infiltrates the Protostar.
The transfer having happened during a tachyon storm causing a fracture of time, Drednok II finds himself in a separate timeline where arrived on the bridge he is confronted with the hologram of Janeway who confuses him with the original Drednok who attacks Chakotay years earlier. Gwyn attempts to stop him but is overpowered by the robot's superior strength before he then erases Janeway using Chakotay's codes, much to Gwyn's horror. After the duplicate retrieves a coupler to prevent the Protostar from exploding, Gwyn assumes he is going to finish her off, to which Drednok replies that it would be against his master's wishes, adding that the Diviner doesn't see the truth the way he does about how Gwyn is just her father's biggest mistake. As he tries to stabilize the reactor, a locked-in engineering Gwyn manages to eject the double into space.
In A Moral Star, Part I, the remains of Dreknok's still functional duplicate delivers a video recording of the Diviner addressing the gang and giving them a one-day ultimatum to return the ship to Tars Lamora, in exchange for which he would release all the Unwanted but that otherwise they will pay the price. Gwyn then stabs Dreknok II through the head to stop the message.
Ultimately choosing to save the Unwanted, the gang sets sail for Tars Lamora where they are towed to the Rev-12's landing pad, with the Diviner and Drednok waiting for them. After the father and daughter exchange their differing opinions on Starfleet, the Diviner changes the terms of the agreement so that his daughter will also be returned to him, a choice which Drednok deems a grave error. Gwyn eventually relents on the deal on the condition that with the miners released, the Rev-12 be given to her friends. Drednok tries to give his opinion on the Rev-12 trade but the Diviner is too blinded by his aim to listen to his right-hand man who he is ordering the Unwanted to release. Drednok, the Diviner, and Gwyn then board the Protostar.
Drednok on the deck of the Protostar.
On the bridge, Drednok reformats Janeway into an evil version loyal to the Diviner who then proceeds on his order to destroy the Rev-12's generators to disable the atmospheric shields and thus leave everyone on Tars Lamora to die. Unfortunately for them, they discover too late that the Protostar's Proto-Core has been taken by the gang.
Drednok's end.
In A Moral Star, Part 2, back on Tars Lamora, Drednok teleports to the Rev-12's engine room to confront Jankom, Rok-Tahk, and Murf who has the Proto-Core inside him. As Murf flees, the duo confront the evil robot but are quickly overpowered. Drednok is then about to finish them when suddenly the Unwanted burst into the room, deciding to settle their score with their former jailer. Despite his efforts, Drednok is overwhelmed and immobilized by the aliens, while claiming that no one stopped the mission until he was decapitated by the little female Caitian with a claw. The dastardly Dreknok goes offline, the former slaves celebrate their victory but the gang discovers that Drednok gave the coordinates of the Proto-Core to the Diviner before being defeated.
Drednok's posthumous act ultimately proved futile after the gang recaptured the Protostar and the Diviner was driven mad by Zero's true appearance before being left alone in the mines now abandoning Tars Lamora. Drednok's remains likely remained aboard the Rev-12 after that.
In Preludes, Drednok appears in flashback, from when the Protostar was captured by The Order and then lost in the time rift. In present time, The Diviner in remission on the USS Dauntless encounters the only other Vau N'Akat to have succeeded in time travel: Asencia the Vindicator and her own Drednok.
In Supernova, Part 1, The Diviner finally abandoned the mission he and Drednok had sworn to each other at all costs, ultimately leading to the Diviner's death at the hands of Asencia before she completes the mission herself with the help of her Drednok, nearly causing Starfleet to go extinct.
In Supernova, Part 2, the gang halts the destruction of Starfleet starships by causing the Protostar to self-destruct with the Living Construct inside, effectively defeating the Order's attempt to destroy Starfleet once and for all.
Season Two[]
In "Into the Breach, Part 2", a number of Drednoks are shown living on present day Solum, including one called the Lorekeeper who serves the present day version of the Diviner, Ilthuran. However, it's unclear if the Lorekeeper and this Drednok are the same one as the Lorekeeper is friendly and is described as simply being a library with legs. Gwyn quickly becomes defensive upon meeting him, before realizing that he is not the same Drednok she knew. Gwyn then asks Lorekeeper how gained the ear of the Vau N'Akat since Asencia deceived the council with the help of her Drednok, so Lorekeeper talks about the dangerous Valu'Ra ritual which once allowed one to be recognized as a true Vau N'Akat in the eyes of the people.
In "Who Saves the Saviors", several Drednoks are guarding the Protostar in the future and have to be drawn away from it in order for Chakotay and Adreek-Hu to launch it into the past. However, time is accidentally altered, resulting in the ship not going to Tars Lamora for the Diviner and Drednok to search for it.
In "Ascension", a Drednok attacks the USS Voyager-A and the Protostar, attempting to destroy them using temporal weaponry stolen from the mind of Wesley Crusher. However, the Drednok and his ship are destroyed by Nova Squadron.
In "Brink", following the uprising launched by Ilthuran against Asencia, the observatory was ransacked and Lorekeeper disconnected following Ilthuran's capture. The gang later inspects the observatory and Gwyn reactivates a damaged Lorekeeper that is unable to tell her where her father was taken. He is last seen when the gang encounters Ilthuran's secret ally, the Asencia of the present. The gang is later captured by Asencia and her Drednok soldiers, but Dal beams Ilthuran and Wesley to Voyager.
In "Touch of Grey'", Asencia's bronze colored Drednok acts as her enforcer during Asencia's attempts to kill the Protostar crew.
In "Ouroboros, Part I", Asencia's Drednok soldiers attack the Protostar crew when they attempt to foil her plans and send the Protostar back in time to Tars Lamora where the Diviner and Drednok would spend so long searching for the ship. Asencia's personal Drednok attacked Dal, Jankom and Murf as they sought to open the wormhole to Tars Lamora while Gwyn fought Asencia herself. In a final struggle, Asencia's Drednok was decapitated by Murf and dropped into a pit of temporal energy that Jankom had earlier stated would "scatter your particles to the next century."
In "Ouroboros, Part II", the Protostar is successfully sent back in time to Tars Lamora, correcting the timeline by ensuring that the Diviner and Drednok would spend decades there. Although their mission to save Solum by destroying the Federation failed, the conflict provoked by Asencia and the efforts of the Voyager and Protostar crews led to a peaceful first contact between the Vau N'Akat and the Federation and them facing a better future together. Wesley Crusher suggested that Ilthuran -- the present day version of the Diviner -- would end up leading his people into a much better future.
Quotes[]
| “ | Drednok: You are growing weaker by the day. Diviner: We... will... find it. Drednok: Many failed before. Years wasted. Even if The Protostar is here... Diviner: Then I will make a Progeny. Drednok: No. We cannot defy The Order. Diviner: And if my species dies with me, what of The Order then? Drednok: An offspring is a liability. Emotions can be exploited. Diviner: It is a chance! We are so close. Please, do this for me. |
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| ~ Drednok in 2366, when he reluctantly created Gwyndala for the Diviner. |
| “ | Diviner: What is the status of the riots? Drednok: We have regained control of The Unwanted with minimal losses. Diviner: Minimal? [Smash a Watcher by frustration] Losing the Protostar and my daughter is not minimal! Drednok: Agreed. Shall The Unwanted continue to extract chimerium? Diviner: Yes. Exhaust them so they're too tired to rise up again. And I'll need every speck of chimerium for trade to get my ship back! Prepare the REV-12! |
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| ~ Drednok reporting the situation after the Protostar was stolen, before the hunt for the fugitives began. |
| “ | Jankom: Which one of you guys thought up this idiot? [Drednok fires at the Mek'eth] Never mind. He's real! Drednok: Well done, young Progeny. You led us right to them. Dal: You knew they were coming. Drednok: Step away from the fugitives. Gwyn: You don't have to hurt them. The ship is close. We can leave them here. Drednok: Step aside, young Progeny. I will not warn you again. Gwyn: Then you'll have to shoot me. |
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| ~ Drednok corners the gang on Planet Murder but is betrayed by Gwyn. |
| “ | Your Progeny betrayed us. | „ |
| ~ Drednok reveals to the Diviner that Gwyn is no longer on their side. |
| “ | Drednok: My Diviner, it would be a mistake to bring her with us. Diviner: The only mistake was not telling her the truth to begin with. |
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| ~ Dreadnok disapproves of Diviner's choice. |
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Trivia[]
- He still addresses Gwyn as "Young Progeny".
- In the first half of the season, First Con-tact is the only episode where Drednok does not make any physical appearance. However, his appearance in Dream Catcher was minor and in Kobayashi was only in flashback taking place before the events of the series.
- System Slayer, the main antagonist of the video game Star Trek: Prodigy - Supernova, shares the same physical appearance of Drednok despite being another robot of the same type.
- Drednok is actually the name of Solum's main synthetic life form rather than an individual name, but all Drednoks were called that during the Civil War.
- At the end of the first season, Gwyndala establishes that her father is still alive as a younger version, implying that Drednok may also still exist as a newer version of himself unless it was not yet built in 2384. The second season confirms the existence of a Drednok in the 2380s, under the name of Lorekeeper and already in the service of the Diviner when he was only Ilthuran.
- However, it's not confirmed that Lorekeepr is the same Drednok as Lorekeeper was described as simply being a library with legs and served no military role.
