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Revision as of 03:11, 15 December 2011
Ruk was an an ancient android constructed at least one million years ago by the Old Ones on Exo III.
Ruk was discovered by Roger Korby on Exo III in 2261. (TOS episode & Star Trek 11 novelization: What Are Little Girls Made Of?)
He was created in response to The One's sapping of the Old Ones' primary star. The Old Ones placed Ruk on stand-by, for approximately 500,000 years, when discovered by Doctors Korby and Aaron Brown. (TNG novel: Q-Strike)
Other realities
In an alternate reality, Ruk was a member of the Imperial Elite, the super-powered enforcers of the Imperial Planets Science Police. In this reality, Ruk had been reconstructed with one-half of his body built with different technology. With his robotic brain, Ruk was able to control fellow Elite member Validus—a similar arrangement to the way an alternate Validus was enslaved in the reality of the Legion of Super-Heroes. When encountering Ruk, Captain James T. Kirk recognized the android after having encountered him in the primary universe.
When the Legion and a landing party from the Federation starship USS Enterprise were trapped in the Imperial Planets' timeline, Ruk and the Imperial Elite squared off against the time-travellers and were defeated. Ruk in particular was defeated when Captain Kirk tried to lunge the android, allowing himself to be grabbed into a stranglehold—much as he was in his first battle with the other Ruk—giving Cosmic Boy a chance to immobilize Ruk with magnetic power. (TOS - Legion of Super-Heroes comic: "Issue 3")
External link
- Ruk article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Ruk article at DC Comics Database, the DC Comics wiki.