A Tamarian lieutenant who joined the Cerritos as chief of security after the loss of Shaxs.
Kayshon is a Tamarian lieutenant who joined the USS Cerritos as its new chief of security after Shaxs's death, speaking like others of his people in metaphor drawn from his culture's stories. He is voiced by Carl Tart.
On his first mission, cataloguing a dead collector's hoard, the collection's defenses turned him into a rag doll, though he later continued to serve aboard the ship. When a journalist interviewed the crew, his account of having once lived in a cave was among the embarrassing details that made it into her report.