Dathon

Dathon

Dathon was a Tamarian captain during the late-24th century.

In 2368, Dathon became the first of his race to successfully establish communications with United Federation of Planets when his ship rendezvoused with the USS Enterprise-D at El-Adrel IV and beamed both himself and Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard down on the planet's surface to hunt an aggressive life form living there in hopes that facing a common enemy would help them learn the communicate. Picard successfully learned to understand the Tamarian's metaphor-based language system, but Dathon was killed by the life form. (TNG: "Darmok")