In Hinduism, Ardra is the goddess of bad luck and misfortune.
Great Ardra and Little Ardra are historical places in former Dahomey (nowadays Benin), Africa.
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Devil's Due", the people of Ventax II believed in a devil-woman named Ardra {played by Marta Dubois}. A thousand years before the episode, Ardra promised to solve all the world's problem. In return, the planet would become hers in a thousand years.
A con woman learned of the legend of Ardra and studied it quite thorughly. She then took her ship, which was cloaked using a copy of a Romulan cloaking device. She took the name Ardra, and set up her vessel to perform "magic effects" at her command, which included appearing to change her form through holographic projection, appearing and disappearing at will through transporter technology, and creating tremors through the projection of a low frequency tractor beam on the planet surface.
At the time specified in the contract the original Ardra made with the Ventaxian people, this version of Ardra appeared. Eventually, Captain Picard and his crew were able to discover this woman's deception. She told the Enterprise personnel when she first appeared that she had been known by many names. That part was true, she had at least 23 aliases. With the deception revealed, the contract was dissolved, and "Ardra" was placed under arrest. Her real name has not been revealed.
This is the sixth nakshatra of the zodiac, having a spread from 6°-40' to 20°-00' in Mithuna or Gemini and is ruled by the node Rahu.
The symbol of Ardra is is a tear-drop.
Ardra born people can behave very cooly during the times of extreme hardship and plan their actions accordingly and they get employed in professions that are related with travel and foreign places.
Ardra also has a strange love for objects she finds nostalgic (pay phones, in particular) and a tendency to lean towards obscure or offbeat things when making decisions.
Ardra wears a lab coat everywhere, and the girls are just too freakish, albeit in vastly different ways, for the average person on the street.
Ardra found a suitable "paternal donor" and surrogate mother because, in Ardra's completely scientific view, "Childbirth is really sort of disgusting!" Ardra then conducted the appropriate genetic manipulations to create two super geniuses.
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