Voldemar H. Guerta, also known as Brak, is a former space pirate and one time member of the Council of Doom. Although he grew up in a nice, suburban household, with a loving mother and step-father, Brak fell into a rebellion phase, led astray by his classmate, Zoltar. Deciding to become a villain, Brak amassed a small army of followers and traversed the cosmos as a feared pirate in pursuit of treasure and galactic conquest.
Following a defeat at the hands of the heroic Space Ghost, Brak’s space ship was overtaken by a storm of cosmic radiation. He barely survived the encounter and it left him cognitively altered. His intellectual faculties were diminished, yet he was rendered with a happier and sunnier disposition. He no longer sought conquest and dominion, but rather wanted to make friends and have people be happy.
He returned home to live with his parents and continued on to have many adventures. He has additionally appeared as a recurrent guest on Space Ghost’s late night talk show as well as the co-host of the cartoon anthology, Toon:FM.
Brak was originally voiced by actor Keye Luke in Space Ghost; actors C. Martin Croker and Andy Merrill have voiced the character in his subsequent appearances on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Cartoon Planet, The Brak Show and Toon:FM. The villain turned good guy first appeared in the 14th episode of Space Ghost, airing on October 22, 1969.