A human inhabitant of New Eden on the distant planet Terralysium, whose family has kept alive the belief that his people came from Earth, as seen in the 2257 episode New Eden.
Jacob is played by Andrew Moodie in the second-season Discovery episode New Eden. His community descends from people who sheltered in a church during the Third World War in 2053 and were carried across the galaxy by what they call a red angel. They have since blended Earth's religions into one faith.
His family alone has passed down the scientific view that Earth survived. When Pike, Burnham and Owosekun arrive posing as travellers, Jacob sees through them, has them shut in the church cellar and takes their equipment as proof.
Bound by General Order 1, Pike at first denies everything. He later beams back alone, admits the truth and trades a power cell, which relights the church, for an old soldier's helmet camera that recorded the angel.