Canadian actor and classical dancer who played T'Pril, the formidable mother of T'Pring, in the second-season Star Trek: Strange New Worlds comedy episode Charades.
Ellora Patnaik is a Canadian actor and a trained performer of Indian classical dance, with a long list of film and television credits.
In Charades, in the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, she plays T'Pril, who comes aboard the Enterprise with her mild husband Sevet for a ritual engagement dinner at which the bride's family formally judges the groom.
T'Pril openly disapproves of Spock's human heritage and of Starfleet, and the ceremony is complicated by the fact that aliens have just turned Spock fully human. He endures her barbs and, restored, reveals the deception to honour his mother Amanda, a speech that wins over nobody but ends the evening on his terms.