Geleth Pa'Dar

Geleth Pa'Dardar was a Cardassian woman who lived in the 23rd and 24th centuries. She was the widow of Irvek Pa'Dar, mother of Kotan Pa'Dar and grandmother of Rugal Pa'Dar.

She was born to wealthy family on Cardassia Prime in city of Coranum, a select upper-class community. At age thirteen her family's business was ruined when Irvek Pa'Dar, her father's friend and business partner, reported to the Ministry of Agriculture that he was running his replicators below capacity and falsely blaming it on power shortages to drive up prices. Irvek Pa'Dar took over the business and Geleth and her family were forced to spend the next ten years living in the impoverished city of Anaret, where her father was assigned a service position at a food distribution depot. Eventually the entire family perished during a drought save Geleth, and after the drought was over she trekked through several cities in search of the Pa'Dar family. Upon finally finding them she demanded they make amends for her family's troubles and shamed them into taking her in. By the end of the following year she married their eldest son, also named Irvek. She later gave birth to a son, Kotan.

In her old age her health declined and she eventually died when she refused to consume water during a drought. On her death bed during her shri-tal she informed her grandson Rugal that her husband was not the father of her son. Kotan was actually the result of an affair she's had with Irvek's secretary Tirim, who she had falsely arrested by the Obsidian Order as soon as she learned she was pregnant.