A lonely Federation liaison who kept a relay station running for decades in hope that Starfleet would return.
Aditya Sahil was a Federation liaison who looked after a seemingly abandoned Federation station in the decades after the Burn, keeping the flag and waiting for a Starfleet officer to arrive. He was played by Adil Hussain.
In 3188 Michael Burnham and Cleveland Booker reached his station, and Burnham, the first Starfleet officer he had seen, gave him an acting Starfleet commission. He tried to help her locate Discovery, which had not yet emerged into the future.