The mother of D'Vana and D'Erika Tendi and head of a wealthy Orion syndicate family, seen when her elder daughter returns home for her sister's wedding.
Shona is the matriarch of the Tendi family, one of the powerful syndicate houses of Orion. She is introduced in the Lower Decks episode Something Borrowed, Something Green, in which D'Vana Tendi reluctantly goes home with Mariner and T'Lyn for the wedding of her sister D'Erika.
In keeping with Orion custom the women of the family hold authority, and Shona presides over a vast estate and a large household. She and her husband B'Rt are proud of the fearsome reputation their elder daughter earned as the Mistress of the Winter Constellations before she left for Starfleet, a past Tendi would rather forget.
The episode shows that Tendi's discomfort is with the piracy rather than with her parents, who welcome her warmly; the wedding crisis itself, the apparent kidnapping of the bride, turns out to be D'Erika's own ploy to bring her sister back into the fold.