American actress who played Ensign Melora Pazlar, the Elaysian cartographer from a low-gravity world, in the Deep Space Nine episode Melora.
Daphne Ashbrook is an American actress whose television work stretches from the 1980s onwards. She holds the unusual distinction of having major guest roles in both Star Trek and Doctor Who, playing Dr Grace Holloway in the 1996 Doctor Who television film.
In Star Trek she appears in the second-season Deep Space Nine episode Melora as Ensign Melora Pazlar, a Starfleet stellar cartographer whose species evolved in low gravity and who must use a wheelchair and braces aboard the station.
The episode follows Melora's prickly independence, her romance with Julian Bashir and her decision not to go through with a treatment that would let her walk normally but would cut her off from her home.