Enabran Tain is a character in the popular Star Trek series. Played by Paul Dooley, Tain is a Cardassian military leader, and the only leader of the Obsidian Order who lived long enough to retire. After several years of retirement, he planned to return to power after engineering the destruction of the Founders homeworld with an alliance between the Tal Shiar and the Order. However, he was captured by the Jem'Hadar after the fleet he assembled was ambushed and destroyed. He spent the next two years in a Dominion internment camp before dying in 2373. He was also the father of Garak. Throughout his life, Tain had built up a reputation as being a hard, unforgiving man, but on his deathbed he finally admitted that he was proud of his son, who came to rescue him.
Tain became head of that intelligence agency in 2348 and gained a reputation of being a hard, unforgiving man, who considered compassion to be a great weakness.
Tain was believed killed in the incident, although he was actually captured and held at Dominion internment camp 371, on an asteroid in the Gamma Quadrant.
While in captivity, Tain managed to secretly construct a subspace radio transmitter, which he used to alert his son, Garak, to the fact that he and others had survived the failed offensive and were being held by the Jem'Hadar.
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