The High Magistrates of the Tholian Assembly was a title held by ranking political members of the Tholian Assembly. In 2376, after receiving a report from ship commander Nostrene in regards to finding a Tholian artifact on board the USS Defiant, the High Magistrates gave the officer the command to destroy the Starfleet presence in order to prevent the discovery of a prototype web generator experiment that had been abandoned. (SCE eBooks: Interphase, Part One, Interphase, Part Two)