Ogron


 * This article concerns the species. For the organization, see OGRON (organization).

Ogrons are strong, lumbering, ape-like humanoids who speak in stilted, simple sentences. They have obedient, stoic persnality. The Ogrons live in scattered communities on a planet on the outer fringes of the Mutter's Spiral, far from the central spaceways. The dominant lifeform on their home planet is a monster The Ogrons both pray to and are preyed on, and fear it. (DW: Frontier in Space).

Ogrons are often hired mercenaries. Those who have 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 (Shock Tactic), Interference: Book Two (The Hour of the Geek)).



On some Human worlds, Ogrons are 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 sources says that they are only able to fly spacecraft via their powerful sense of mimicry, and that Ogron speech uses subsonic frequencies. They are more intelligent than they might appear to be from their audible speech alone. (EDA/PDA: Interference: Book One (Shock Tactic), Interference: Book Two (The Hour of the Geek)'').

Behind the Scenes
Different writers have obviously had different ideas of the inteligence level of the Ogrons. Their original television appearance in Frontier in Space portrayed them as simpleminded. 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 inteligence as Humans, though covertly.