Rylee Alazraqui on the hardest part of being Rok-Tahk on Star Trek: Prodigy

Eleven-year-old Rylee Alazraqui voices Rok-Tahk on Star Trek: Prodigy.

The Star Trek: Prodigy actress, Rylee Alazraqui, brings Rok-Tahk, a Brikar who is roughly the size of a small mountain, to life on the animated series, Star Tre: Prodigy. Now into her second year of voicing the character, Alazraqui spoke with CBR about her experience, and what she finds the hardest to do in her role.

On the series, Rok-Tahk is the Protostar’s new science officer, which means Alazraqui gets plenty of what is affectionately known among Star Trek fans as technobabble. (Some fans have even shared their favorite technobabble scenes.) When asked if that was the hardest part of the job for her, she quickly confirmed that it was.

"That is! I will go into a recording session, get all hyped, and I get Starbucks every time we do it. I come in, I’m ready, and the first line is a huge paragraph of all these words that I don’t know. Brook [Chalmers], who helps me deliver my lines, he really breaks it down and gives me good directions on how to do it, and Kevin and Dan [Hageman] do, too; they really help direct me on how to say it. Even though I don’t know what the heck I’m saying, it makes sense when I do say it because they direct me on how to say it."

Brook Chalmers, Star Trek: Prodigy’s voice director, taught Rylee Alazraqui a trick to use to help her say the words.

As the series goes on, Alazraqui feels Rok is going to become more and more useful to the crew of the Protostar as she focuses on her love of science. That means, of course, that the difficult words aren’t going away. Fortunately, the actress has some help from Prodigy’s voice director, Brook Chalmers.

"It’s definitely the hardest part of my recordings because I don’t have any idea what I’m saying, and they’re big words, too. A trick that Brook actually taught me is that you stick your tongue out and say the lines, and then after you stick your tongue out, you can say it perfectly. That really helps me, but it’s definitely the hardest part of the recordings."

To her credit, though, the words sound effortless when she delivers them. It’s as if she’s been saying them all her life!