 Quick Facts:
- Former head of the Obsidian
Order, and the only one to live long enough to retire
- Father to Elim Garak, but
kept it hidden his entire life
- Taken prisoner during an
attack on the Founder's homeworld, in which he partnered
with the Romulan Tal Shiar to help lead the attack
Complete Bios:
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The only
head of the Obsidian Order who lived long enough to retire,
Tain was a stubborn, wily survivor who epitomized the
efficiently ruthless agency and thrived on the labyrinthine
intrigue of his people -- a man the regular military's Central
Command dared not challenge. Hoping for a comeback from his
retirement in 2368 to the Arawath colony and Unefra III, Tain
engineered a disastrous joint attack on the Dominion Founders
homeworld three years later with the Romulan Tal Shiar, a plot
doomed early on by shapeshifter infiltrators. He was thought
dead until discovered ailing at Dominion Internment Camp 371
in 2373 by his son Garak, who asked but did not get his
father's deathbed forgiveness.
Tain had
groomed Garak as his successor until the events that led to
Garak's banishment, which left Tain feeling betrayed; he retired
soon after, but on the eve of the Dominion debacle he had even
tried to arrange the murders of Garak and six others who had
information on him. In typical Cardassian irony and obfuscation,
both Tain and Garak had been ready to trust each other anew in
their later years, and Tain aided Bashir's treatment of his
son's fatal degenerative bio-implant. His housekeeper and
confidant of over 30 years was Mila, who oversaw him as an older
man until the Dominion invasion.
First
Seen: "The Wire"
Current Status: Diseased ("In Purgatory's Shadow")
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