Canadian actor, born in 1974, who plays Admiral Robert April, the first captain of the USS Enterprise and mentor to Christopher Pike, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Adrian Holmes is a Canadian actor born in 1974. His other work includes Nick Barron in 19-2, which won him a Canadian Screen Award, Frank Pike in Arrow and Philip Banks in Bel-Air.
In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds he plays Admiral Robert April, the predecessor of Captain Pike in command of the USS Enterprise. The character originated in the animated episode The Counter-Clock Incident, and Holmes is the first actor to play him in live action.
He first appears in the opening episode, Strange New Worlds, where April sends Pike after the missing Una Chin-Riley. He returned in The Broken Circle and in Hegemony, Part II, and again as a recurring guest in the fourth season in 2026.