Tamarians
Player Race: No
Relation to UFP: Unknown.
Friendly.
ACTDNoteworthy:
- The language
barrier is too significant for a character to be of this race.
Description
A humanoid
civilization, first encountered by the Federation in 2268. The Tamarians were
faintly reptilian in appearance, and their spoken language was based on almost entirely on
metaphors drawn from their culture's mythology. Early encounters between the
Federation and the Tamarians were without incident, but the two societies were
unable to communicate. A breakthrough finally came in 2368, when a Tamarian captain,
dathon, confined both himself and Enterprise-D Captain Picard on the surface of planet
El-Adrel IV (Darmok -TNG).
Star Trek: The
Encyclopedia (1999 edition).