When the Romulans used their arrenhe'hwiua telecapture system to fake a Vulcan attack on the major Human colony of Alpha Centauri on July 22, 2155, the DDV T'Jal was one of two Sh'Raan-class combat cruisers sent to destroy the captured Vulcan ships. The T'Jal and its sister ship, the DDV Toth, destroyed the pair of captured D'Kyr-class combat cruisers engaging a Coalition of Planets convoy but did not render aid to the crippled United Earth starship Columbia NX-02, and subsequently departed the system. (ENT novel: Kobayashi Maru)