Tal (symbiont)

Tal was a Trill symbiont who lived in the 32nd century. Tal's hosts were loyal to the Federation. (DSC episode: "People of Earth")

Biography[]

One of Tal's hosts was a Starfleet captain, whose starfleet uniform style dated from the 2390s decade. Another was a junior officer whose white uniform had a gold stripe, and the combadge of the 31st to the 32nd century. (DSC episode: "Forget Me Not")

By the 3170s decade, Tal was joined with the Trill Starfleet flag officer Senna Tal. In 3177, the admiral sent a call to bring other Starfleet and Federation loyalists to meet at Earth. Senna died on an outbound ship in 3187. (DSC episode: "People of Earth")

Gray Tal was the next Trill gestalt, but they were only joined until 3188. (DSC episode: "Forget Me Not")

The Tal symbiont was implanted into the Human Adira, who served as inspector in the United Earth Defense Force in the 3180s. (DSC episode: "People of Earth")

By 3189, Tal had been joined to seven hosts. (DSC episode: "Forget Me Not")

In that year, Adira was part of Captain Ndoye's inspection team that visited the temporally displaced Starfleet science vessel USS Discovery. Inspector Adira relied on Tal's familiarity with 23rd century Starfleet technology to quickly sabotage the ship and Ndoye's team.

Revealing their secret to Captain Saru of the Discovery and with leave granted by Ndoye, Adira Tal joined the crew of Discovery. (DSC episode: "People of Earth")

After traveling to Trill, Adira was finally able to connect with Tal properly and gained access to the memories of Tal's former hosts. In addition, Gray Tal began appearing to Adira, their partner in life, as a separate entity, albeit one that only Adira could see. (DSC episode: "Forget Me Not")

Gray was later able to manifest to other people through an elaborate holoprogram, stating that both he and Tal were "stuck." Dr. Hugh Culber promised to find a way to help him. (DSC episode: "That Hope Is You, Part 2")

Culber later found a way to resurrect Gray by unjoining him from Tal using a zhian'tara and then transferring his consciousness into a golem using the Soong method. Before the procedure began, Adira told Guardian Xi that Tal was aware of their intentions and gave his consent. Gray was successfully unjoined from Tal and resurrected in the body of a golem. (DSC episodes: "Anomaly", "Choose to Live")