The chief engineer of the Enterprise in the alternate reality, who joins Kirk and Sulu in a space jump on to the Narada's drilling platform in 2258 and dies there.
Olson appears in the 2009 film Star Trek. When the newly launched Enterprise finds Nero's ship drilling into Vulcan, Captain Pike sends three men in pressure suits to dive from a shuttle and disable the platform. Olson, in red, carries the explosive charges.
He is exhilarated by the fall and opens his parachute far later than the others. He comes in too fast, bounces across the platform and is pulled into the fire of the drill beneath it. The charges are lost with him, and Kirk and Sulu have to fight the Romulan crew and wreck the machinery with their weapons.
His death leaves the post vacant, and it is filled by the end of the film by Montgomery Scott. Olson was played by Greg Ellis.