Indian actor, known internationally for Life of Pi and English Vinglish, who played Aditya Sahil, the lone keeper of a Federation relay station, in Discovery's third season.
Adil Hussain is an Indian actor from Assam who works in Hindi, Assamese, English and several other languages. His films include Life of Pi, English Vinglish, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Mukti Bhawan.
In the third season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, That Hope Is You, Part 1, he plays Aditya Sahil, who has spent forty years staffing a derelict Federation communications station, as his father and grandfather did, waiting for someone from Starfleet to arrive. Michael Burnham gives him the commission he was never able to receive, and together they raise the Federation flag.
Hussain reprised the part later in the season, including the finale, by which time Sahil is serving as a Starfleet officer.