D'Vana Tendi is a fictional character from the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Lower Decks. She is the first Orion main character in a Star Trek show. Among Orions, she is known as the Mistress of the Winter Constellations.
Noël Wells voices Tendi.
Star Trek: Lower Decks is an American adult animated science fiction television series created by Mike McMahan for the streaming service CBS All Access. It is the ninth Star Trek series and debuted in 2020 as part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe. The franchise's first animated series since Star Trek: The Animated Series concluded in 1974, and also its first comedy, Lower Decks follows the low-ranking support crew of the starship Cerritos in the 24th century.
(L-R) Creator and showrunner Mike McMahan promoting Lower Decks at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con with executive producers Heather Kadin and Alex Kurtzman
The main characters of Lower Decks (L-R): D'Vana Tendi, Sam Rutherford, Beckett Mariner, and Brad Boimler. Creator Mike McMahan wanted them to have a "prime time look" similar to series like The Simpsons, while the uniforms were based on unused designs for the 1994 film Star Trek Generations.