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the fallout from the metreon cascade suffered metremia, a dead- Talos Star Group. Location of planet Talos IV. (“The Cage,” “The ly blood disease. (“Jetrel” [VGRY]). The Talaxian respiratory system Menagerie, Part |" [TOS]). Is directly linked to multiple points along the spinal column. (“Phage” [VGR]). It is a tradition in Talaxian society to share the Talosians. Dominant humanoid life-form on planet Talos IV. The history of a meal before eating. It was seen as a way of enhancing Talosians were nearly made extinct by nuclear war, and the few the culinary experience. (“Flashback [VGR]). Neelix was Talaxian. survivors clung to life underground, where they became dangerously dependent upon the illusion-creating technology Talbot, St. John. (David Warner). Feder- % developed by their ancestors. By the mid-23rd century, ation diplomatic representative to the the Talosians resorted to capturing passing space travParadise City settlement on planet « elers to serve as sources of illusions. A human woman Nimbus lll. (Star Trek V: The Final Fron- a named Vina was so captured in 2236 when her ship, [P-- « tier). Actor David Warner later played the the 8.8. Columbia, crashed on Talos IV. In 2254, the part of Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek Talosians subsequently captured Enterprise captain I~ ) * VI: The Undiscovered Country as well as Christopher Pike in the hope that he would establish \ ¥ | | the Cardassian Gul Madred in “Chain of | a permanent human community with Vina, but Pike Command, Part II" (TNG) demonstrated that human resistance to captivity was so great as to make his people unsuitable subjects for talchok. Small two-tailed vermin indigenous to Rinax. Talchoks their needs. Nevertheless, in 2266, the Talosians invithad sharp claws and fangs. (“Jetrel” [VGRY]) ed Pike to return to their world after an accident left | him severely disabled. At Talos, illusions made it possiTale of Two Cities, A. Novel written by terrestrial author Charles | ble for Pike to live out the remainder of his life unfetDickens in 1859. The book was a historical story set during tered by the damage to his physical body. (“The Cage,” Earth's French Revolution. Spock gave Kirk an antique hard- “The Menagerie, Parts | and II" [TOS]). Gene Roddenberry, while bound printed copy of A Tale of Two Cities as a birthday gift in forced by production practicality to make the Talosians a humanoid 2285. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan). species (so that they could be played by human actors), nevertheless took the imaginative step of casting women in the roles, while talent night. Evening entertainment program put on by Neelix dubbing male voices for the characters. aboard the Voyager on stardate 50518. The performances included a clarinet solo by Ensign Harry Kim, a reading of Vulcan poetry by ~~ talsa root soup. Soup native to the people of a planet in the Lieutenant Tuvok, and a ballet piece entitled “dying swan” per- Mokra Order. Caylem made talsa root soup for Kathryn Janeway. formed by Kathryn Janeway. (“Coda” [VGR]) “Resistance” [VGRY)). talgonite. Ceramic substance, used in the construction of the Taluno, Kai. Twenty-second century Bajoran religious leader Kataan probe. (“The Inner Light” [TNGJ). who first discovered the Bajoran wormhole. A ship carrying Kai Taluno was damaged in the Denorios Belt. There, he claimed the Tallera. (Robin Curtis). Agent of the Vul- 1 heavens opened up and almost swallowed his ship. Bajoran relican isolationist movement who infil- L ob gious faith holds that the phenomenon was the Celestial trated Arctus Baran's mercenary crew in . - Temple, home of the Bajoran Prophets. (“Emissary” [DS9]) 2370. Tallera also claimed to be a mem- % ber of the Vulcan V'Shar security agency, Talura. (Charlie Curtis). Humanoid female. Talura was the combut this, too, was a cover to conceal v ’ panion of arms merchant Hagath during his trip to station Deep her mission to acquire fragments of the Space 9 in 2373. (“Business As Usual" [DS9)]) ancient Stone of Gol, a psionic resonator, for the Vulcan isolationists. Talvath. Romulan science vessel piloted by Dr. Telek R'Mor. The Tallera was captured and turned over vessel was launched in 2349 on an extended mission. In 2351, Dr. to Vulcan Security Minister Satok. R'Mor encountered a micro-wormhole in Sector 1385 of the (“Gambit, Parts | and II" [TNG]). Robin Alpha Quadrant. He communicated through it with the crew of Curtis also portrayed Lieutenant Saavik in the Starship Voyager, which was in the Delta Quadrant in 2371. Star Trek Ill and IV. (“Eye of the Needle" [VGR)). We never saw the Talvath. Tallonian crystals. Much sought-after crystals that were illegalto ~~ Tamal. (Michael Canavan). Maquis member. Tamal operated the possess anywhere but on the Tallonian homeworld. The smug- port tactical station on the bridge of the U.S.S. Defiant during gler Regana Tosh attempted to sell a Tallonian crystal to Quark on Thomas Riker's unauthorized mission to the Orias system in station Deep Space 9 in 2372, (“Hippocratic Oath” [DS9]). 2371. '(“Defiant” [DS9)). Talmadge, Captain. Commander of the Dorian, a transport vessel. Tamar. (Alan Echevarria). Inhabitant of a planet in the Teplan sysTalmadge's ship was attacked near planet Rekag-Seronia in 2369 tem located in the Gamma Quadrant. Tamar suffered from a fatal while attempting to deliver Ambassador Ves Alkar to that planet disease known as the blight. In 2372, after sharing his last meal In hopes of mediating peace there. (“Man of the People” [TNG]) with family and friends, Tamar drank poison and died. SEE Teplan blight. (“The Quickening” [DS9]). . Talos IV. Class-M planet, formerly om i 4 NC . the home of a thriving, technologi- Tamarian frost. A sweet beverage. Available in the Ten-Forward cally advanced humanoid civiliza- Lounge of the Enterprise-D. (“Hero Worship™ [TNG]). MR tion. Thousands of centuries ago, a terrible nuclear war killed nearly all Tamarians. A humanoid civilization, the planet's inhabitants and nearly first encountered by the Federation 2 rendered the planet itself uninhabit in 2268. The Tamarians were faintly 3 able. SEE: Talosians. The original Enterprise was the only reptilian in appearance, and their Federation starship ever to visit the planet, although the survey spoken language was based almost vessel 8.8. Columbia crashed there in 2236. As of 2266, contact entirely on metaphors drawn from with Talos IV was a violation of Starfleet General Order 7, adeath their culture's mythology. Early penalty offense because of the immense and addictive power of encounters between the Federation *»- the Talosians' illusion technology. (“The Cage,” “The Menagerie, and the Tamarians were without inci- z Parts | and II" [TOS]). SEE: Pike, Christopher. dent, but the two societies were vd