American actress who plays the long-lived Lanthanite chief engineer Pelia in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Carol Kane is an American actress who won an Emmy Award for the sitcom Taxi and earned an Academy Award nomination for Hester Street, with film roles in Annie Hall and The Princess Bride and a later run on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds she plays Pelia, a Lanthanite who has lived for thousands of years on Earth and who becomes the Enterprise's chief engineer from the second season. Pelia's eccentric humor and vast personal history, along with her collection of historical artifacts, have made her a lively addition to the crew.