A Starfleet fleet admiral who authorises Captain Picard in 2368 to take a fleet to the Klingon border and expose Romulan support for the Duras family in the Klingon Civil War.
Fleet Admiral Shanthi appears at the start of Redemption II, the opening episode of the fifth season. Picard comes to her with a proposal. He is sure the Romulans are secretly supplying the Duras forces, and he argues that the Federation cannot treat the war as a purely internal Klingon matter if a third power is deciding its outcome.
Shanthi is cautious, reminding him that the Federation must not take sides. Picard's answer is a blockade that fires on no one: a line of ships linked by a tachyon detection net, able to reveal any cloaked vessel crossing from Romulan space.
She accepts the argument and gives him the ships, a scratch fleet that includes several vessels pulled out of repair yards. She was played by Fran Bennett.