A science officer from the USS Enterprise who comes aboard the USS Discovery with Captain Pike in 2257 and is killed on the mission's first away assignment.
Lieutenant Evan Connolly is played by Sachin Sahel in Brother, the second-season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. He transfers over with Pike and Commander Nhan when the damaged Enterprise hands the investigation of the red signals to Discovery.
Confident to the point of condescension, he lectures Michael Burnham on a subject she knows well and brushes off her corrections. He joins Pike, Nhan and Burnham in flying single-seat landing pods through a debris field towards the wreck of the USS Hiawatha, which lies on an asteroid.
Ignoring Burnham's warning that his calculations are off, Connolly is struck by a rock fragment and his pod is destroyed. Burnham and Pike go on to rescue Jett Reno and the survivors.