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 Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as Enterprise psychiatrist Dr. Elanor Chivers, it is less a stunt casting choice than a tiny, perfect piece of television destiny.
