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Rashella was a young, female Aldean who was the last of her
species born on Aldea prior to 2364.      Along with Radue, she
visited the USS Enterprise-D that year after the Aldeans had
lured the starship to the Epsilon Mynos system in order to
reveal the existence of their planet, till then considered only
a myth. In fact, the Aldean civilization was millennia old but
despite having survived that long the culture was on the brink
of collapse as a result of radiation poisoning from the
depletion of their ozone layer. The Aldeans had been rendered
sterile from ultraviolet radiation, a condition whose impact
Rashella felt particularly strongly.      Rashella and Radue led
the effort to kidnap the Enterprise's children in an attempt to
repopulate their society. Rashella became particularly attached
to the youngest child, Alexandra, and refused to turn her over
to her unit, the Aldean social