Security Chief Odo of Deep Space Nine remarked that it was one of the most brutally efficient organizations in the galaxy, being even more ruthless than the Romulan Tal Shiar.

In 2371, under the leadership of Tain who believed that the Central Command was being too complacent about the threat of the Dominion, the Obsidian Order and their Romulan equivalent, the Tal Shiar, allied in an attempt to destroy the Dominion.

The Founders soon learned of the plan, via a Changeling who impersonated Colonel Lovok of the Tal Shiar, and saw it as an opportunity to eliminate the two dangerous organizations.

The disastrous results of this attack crippled the Tal Shiar but more importantly ( and perhaps through fear that the Order had clearly become too independent ) it led to the downfall of the Order.

The Cardassian Obsidian Order kept a fleet of Keldon class starships which were used in conjunction with the Romulan Tal Shiar during the sneak attack in the Omarion Nebula.

Only the Praetor, who heads the Committee, is guaranteed a seat ; others, even the chairman of the Tal Shiar, must compete to be allowed in.

It's possible that army-specific ranks are reserved for the Tal Shiar.

Other senior officer ranks, such as major, colonel and general, are army-style and may often be reserved for members of the Tal Shiar.

The two Romulan generals mentioned in Star Trek canon may or may not have been Tal Shiar operatives.

However, it is possible that the unnamed Romulan general officer who rescued Tasha Yar and fathered Sela ( TNG's " Redemption Part II ") was with the Tal Shiar: without official canon sources, these remain purely conjectural.

Prior to the Dominion War, the Tal Shiar and the Cardassian Obsidian Order secretly worked together to launch a pre-emptive strike on the Founder homeworld.

The plan was initiated by retired head of the Obsidian Order Enabran Tain, and was supported by Tal Shiar Colonel Lovok, who was later revealed to be a changeling, as a result the entire fleet was destroyed.

In the TNG season 6 episode " Face of the Enemy ", Counselor Deanna Troi was surgically altered by a Romulan underground organization to impersonate a Tal Shiar officer Major Rakal.

In the Deep Space Nine season 6 episode " In the Pale Moonlight ", Elim Garak and Captain Sisko successfully fool the Tal Shiar into concluding that the assassination of Romulan Senator Vreenak was carried out by the Dominion.

The Romulan Senate also has the Continuing Committee, which is composed of senators and the chairman of the Tal Shiar and confirms the new praetor.

Sometime in 2374, a 27 member Tal Shiar team commanded by Commander Rekar hijacked the USS Prometheus, an advanced prototype starship to be analyzed by the Tal Shiar.

Two Emergency Medical Holograms, one from the USS Voyager, overthrew the Tal Shiar crew and the ship returned to Federation hands.

In 2371 the Romulan Tal Shiar intelligence agency and their Cardassian counterparts, the Obsidian Order, launched a preemptive strike against the Dominion ; their entire fleet of approximately 4 Warbirds and 12 Keldon class Cardassian vessels, however, was destroyed, and it was revealed that the Tal Shiar officer leading the attack was actually a Dominion agent.

" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

The position that " Christian theological anti-Judaism is a phenomenon distinct from modern antisemitism, which is rooted in economic and racial thought, so that Christian teachings should not be held responsible for antisemitism " has been articulated, among other places, by Pope John Paul II in ' We Re member: A Reflection on the Shoah ,' and the Jewish declaration on Christianity, Dabru Emet .. Several scholars, including Susannah Heschel, Gavin I Langmuir and Uriel Tal the General Synod has affirmed that " the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ is for all and must be shared with all including people from other faiths or of no faith and that to do anything else would be to institutionalize discrimination ".

Chord-melody is often played with a plectrum ( see Tal Farlow, George Benson and others ); whereas fingerstyle, as practised by Joe Pass, George van Eps, Ted Greene, Lenny Breau or hybrid picking as practised by Ed Bickert and others allows for a more complex, polyphonic approach to unaccompanied soloing.

" There is a Tal Faran (" Hill of Faran ") on the outskirts of Mecca.

The name is an homage to the Tal Shaya, a Vulcan method of execution from the original Star Trek series where the neck is broken with a swift stroke for a quick and merciful death.

In 1985 Uriel Tal, in his Foundations of a Political Messianic Trend in Israel, argued that Hess's position is to be contextualised within a totalitarian messianic force, whose process he summed up as follows.

Seated, facing right, is Mikhail Tal, then world champion.

His overall performance in Olympiad play is impressive: + 78 − 1 = 50 ( only one game lost, to Robert Hübner, out of 129 played ), for 79. 8 per cent, the third all-time best performance after Mikhail Tal and Anatoly Karpov.

Petrosian introduced the exchange sacrifice for the sake of ' quality of position ', where the time factor, which is so important in the play of Alekhine and Tal, plays hardly any role.

* " It is to Petrosian's advantage that his opponents never know when he is suddenly going to play like Mikhail Tal.

Furthermore, limestone is still mined at Elbingerode in three large open pits ( Werk Rübeland, Werk Kaltes Tal and Werk Hornberg ).

The Mikhail Tal Memorial is held in Moscow each year since 2006 to honour his memory.

Tal Afar is also a major city within the region.

Unlike other secret police organizations in the Star Trek universe, such as the Romulan Tal Shiar and the Cardassian Obsidian Order, Section 31 is not an actual branch of government.

The particle, discovered first by a Ferengi mining guild, is about to be sold to the Cardassians ; the Tal Shiar sends Admiral Sela to secure it before that happens.

On the first day of Passover, the traditional beginning of the dry season in Israel, a special extended prayer for dew ( Tefillat Tal ) is added.

It's usually reserved for executive officers on Romulan ships ( Tal in TOS's " The Enterprise Incident " and N ' Vek in TNG's " Face of the Enemy "), but in rare cases, subcommanders may captain their own Warbirds ( Taris in TNG's " Contagion ").

They showed them to a high-ranking Romulan senator, Vreenak, who had negotiated the Romulan non-aggression treaty with the Dominion and was vice-chairman of the Tal Shiar, secretary of the War Plans Council, and one of Proconsul Neral's most trusted advisors.

The rogue Federation agency, Section 31, had an agent in the Tal Shiar to safeguard Federation interests feeling that after the Dominion War, the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire would be the only two powers left in the region and would go to war.

It can be considered analogous to the modern-day CIA, or to the Romulan Star Empire's " Tal Shiar " and the Cardassians ' " Obsidian Order ".

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Members of the Cardassian Obsidian Order and the Romulan Tal Shiar intelligence factions plan to eradicate the Founders and their homeworld, but are themselves deceived by a shapeshifter and ambushed.

Following first contact with the Founders, the Obsidian Order – a covert Cardassian intelligence force – ally themselves with the Tal Shiar, their Romulan counterpart, and launch a secret, pre-emptive strike to destroy the Founders ' homeworld, hoping that the Founders and the rest of the Dominion will collapse.

From the bridge, Romulan Subcommander Tal discovers and tracks the signal.

While Spock and the Romulan Commander commune with one another in a spiritualized erotic exploration of the other's hand and face, Tal interrupts and informs his superior of the alien transmission.

Riker is ordered to facilitate peaceful talks between the leading factions, but his mission is placed in jeopardy by the remnants of the Tal Shiar, the feared Romulan intelligence service, who seek to further their own interests.

Constable Odo explains that the Obsidian Order is " the ever-vigilant eyes and ears of the Cardassian Empire ", an intelligence service more ruthless than the Romulan Tal Shiar.