Fleet Admiral Shanthi in 2368
Fleet Admiral Shanthi was a senior officer at Starfleet Command in the 2360s and 2370s, posted at Starbase 234. During the Klingon Civil War in early 2368, Fleet Admiral Shanthi approved Captain Jean-Luc Picard's plan to blockade the Klingon-Romulan border using a task force to establish a tachyon detection grid. (TNG: "Redemption II")
In 2370, Shanthi was posted at Starbase 247. She was contacted by Captain Picard after the incident involving the USS Pegasus and an illegal Federation interphase cloaking device. She assured Picard that the leading figure in the incident, Admiral Erik Pressman and several other officers at Starfleet Intelligence would face a full inquiry and probably a general court martial. (TNG: "The Pegasus")
Background
- Shanthi was played by Fran Bennett.
- One oddity exists in that she was wearing vice admiral insignia on her uniform despite being referred to as fleet admiral. The script for "Redemption II" identifies her as being the head of Starfleet, possibly suggesting that she is the Commander-in-Chief. There is no direct evidence in the filmed episode to support this, however, and she could only be so if we accept her rank as fleet admiral (as the script/dialog suggests) over vice admiral (as her uniform suggests).
Apocrypha
- She also appears in the Pocket DS9 novel Hollow Men, chairing the first Allied talks with the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians.