Ogron
- This article concerns the species. For the organisation, see OGRON.
Ogrons were strong, lumbering, ape-like humanoids who speak in stilted, simple sentences. They had obedient, stoic personalities. The Ogrons lived in scattered communities on a planet on the outer fringes of the Mutter's Spiral, far from the central space-ways. The dominant lifeform on their home planet was a monster which preyed upon the Ogrons,yet they prayed to it, with worshipful reverence. (DW: Frontier in Space).
Ogrons are often hired mercenaries. Those who employed their services include The Master (DW: Frontier in Space), the Daleks (DW: Day of the Daleks, Frontier in Space, BFA: Return of the Daleks) and The Remote (Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two).
On some Human worlds, Ogrons were employed as police officers, usually led by a mentally augmented leader, such as Garshak, on the planet Megarra. (NA: Shakedown) who later employed himself as a private detective (NA: Mean Streets).
One source said that they were only able to fly spacecraft via their powerful sense of mimicry, and that Ogron speech used subsonic frequencies. They were more intelligent than they might appear to be from their audible speech alone. (EDA/PDA: Interference - Book One, Interference: Book Two (The Hour of the Geek)).
Some ogrons were captured in a miniscope. (DW: TheCarnival of Monsters)
Notes
Some sources give the Ogron homeworld the name Braah. Because of rapid changes in Braah's climate, the evolutionary path the Ogrons were on got confused, resulting in them having a mixture of primate and carnivore instincts.(MA: The Romance of Crime, PDA: Mission: Impractical). Another source named their homeworld as Orestes. (NA: So Vile a Sin).
Frobisher mentioned that his wife fell in love with him when he was in the shape of an Ogron in The Holy Terror.
Behind the Scenes
Different writers have obviously had different ideas of the intelligence level of the Ogrons. Their original television appearance in Frontier in Space portrayed them as simple minded. Some of the Doctor Who Magazine appearances have showed as somewhat more intelligent. In the Interference duology deliberately subverted expectations by portraying them as in reality equally as intelligence as Humans, though covertly.
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