A Starfleet admiral who leads the reinforcements to the binary stars in 2256 and dies when a cloaked Klingon ship rams his flagship, the USS Europa.
Admiral Brett Anderson is played by Terry Serpico in The Vulcan Hello and Battle at the Binary Stars, the opening episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. Contacted by hologram after the Shenzhou finds T'Kuvma's ship, he orders Captain Georgiou to hold position and dismisses Michael Burnham's advice to fire first.
He arrives aboard the Europa in the middle of the battle, takes the crippled Shenzhou in a tractor beam and hails T'Kuvma with an offer of a ceasefire. T'Kuvma seems to accept, then has a cloaked vessel ram the Europa and slice through its hull.
With his ship lost, Anderson has it destroy itself, taking the attacker with it. His death is one of the first great losses of the war that follows.