American actress who played Captain Erika Hernandez, commander of Earth's second warp five starship Columbia NX-02, in three episodes of Enterprise's fourth season.
Ada Maris is an American actress known for the sitcom Nurses, in which she played Gina Cuevas, and for many television guest roles.
In Enterprise she played Erika Hernandez, an old friend and former lover of Jonathan Archer who is given command of Columbia. She first appears in Home, in which she and Archer go climbing together as he struggles with what the Xindi mission has cost him.
Maris returned in Affliction and Divergence, the Klingon augment virus story, in which Trip Tucker transfers to Columbia and the two NX-class ships fly in tight formation at warp so that he can cross between them. Hernandez is among the earliest women shown commanding a starship in the franchise's timeline.