The Pendari Champion is an imposing arena fighter in Tsunkatse who beats Seven of Nine in her first bout after she agrees to fight in exchange for medical care for Tuvok.
The Pendari Champion is a competitor in the brutal combat sport of the sixth-season Voyager episode Tsunkatse. He was played by the professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson, then known as The Rock, in an early screen role.
Seven of Nine and Tuvok are abducted by Penk, who stages the matches aboard his ship and broadcasts them across the sector. With Tuvok badly hurt, Seven consents to enter the arena so that he will be treated. Her first opponent is the Pendari, a powerful fighter who shrugs off her attacks and knocks her down, to the horror of Voyager's crew watching on shore leave.
The defeat leads Penk to schedule her for a match to the death and prompts a veteran Hirogen fighter to train her.