Deidre Hall Takes the Melodrama into Star Trek, and Telenovela Fans Will Understand Exactly Why It Works - INTERVIEW

For decades, Deidre Hall has made television's most unbelievable moments feel oddly possible. Her 'Days of Our Lives' alter ego, Dr. Marlena Evans, has survived possession, kidnapping, comas, memory loss and more family shocks than a telenovela writer's room could fit into one season. So when Hall arrives in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' as Enterprise psychiatrist Dr. Elanor Chivers, it feels less a stunt casting choice than a tiny, perfect piece of television destiny. For her it was an unexpected adventure, as she said in this interview.