Star Trek: 10 Characters That Faked Their Way Into Starfleet

8. Oh, The Zhat Vash

Star Trek Picard Maps And Legends Commodore Oh
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The problem with prophecy, especially the doomsday ones, is that the interpretation always matches the interpreter. And if the prophecy happens to be history, then that only has to repeat itself if you let it. Oh and co. could have learnt something from Captain Janeway when she said, "Fate, Tuvok? I won't accept that." Not all synths were diabolically deadly, and Soji Asha (the synthetic twin or 'Seb-Cheneb') wasn't the prognosticated destroyer. 'Ganmadan,' or the end of the world as they knew it, would simply have to wait.

It was the neuronal misfirings of prophecy, or rather the misinterpretations of ancient synth history not meant for organic minds — the 'Admonition' — that led Zhat Vash operative Oh to fake her way into Starfleet. As Raffi told it in Broken Pieces, Oh, in fact half-Romulan, half-Vulcan, had been sent as a 'mole' to 'burrow' into Starfleet at the time Doctor Noonien Soong began developing his famous androids. Oh then rose through the ranks to become Commodore and head of Starfleet Security.

Set on setting anything and everything positronic on fire, Oh then masterminded the attack on Mars which led to the Federation's ban on synthetic lifeforms. That also had the rather unfortunate side-effect of ending the Romulan evacuation efforts, leaving millions out of options in the path of a supernova. I suppose, on the galactic Ragnarök scale of things, Oh and the Zhat Vash could live with that.

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Jack has been a content creator for TrekCulture since 2022, and a Star Trek fan for as long as he can remember. He has authored over 170 articles, including one of TrekCulture's longest, and has appeared several times on the TrekCulture podcast. He holds a first-class honours degree in French from the University of Sussex, a master's with distinction in Language, Culture and History: French and Francophone Studies and a PhD in French from University College London (UCL). He has previously worked in the field of translation. His interests extend to science-fiction television and film more widely. His favourite series is Star Trek: Voyager, followed closely by Stargate SG-1.