The warship of the Tamarians, or Children of Tama, which meets the Enterprise-D at El-Adrel IV in 2368 under Captain Dathon and holds the two captains on the planet below.
The Tamarian starship appears in the fifth-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Darmok. In 2368 it waits in orbit of El-Adrel IV, sending a signal towards Federation space, and the Enterprise-D is sent to try once more to open relations with a people whose speech no one has managed to understand.
Its captain, Dathon, beams himself and Picard to the surface, and the ship then projects a scattering field in the planet's ionosphere so that neither transporter can bring them back. When Worf takes a shuttle down, the Tamarians disable it with a carefully limited shot.
After Dathon is killed by the creature on the planet, the Enterprise fires on the Tamarian ship to break the field and the two vessels exchange fire. The larger Tamarian ship has the better of it until Picard, back aboard, speaks to its first officer in the Tamarians' own metaphors.