Television director whose Star Trek episodes include Terra Firma, Part 2 and Choose to Live for Discovery and the Gorn horror story All Those Who Wander for Strange New Worlds.
Christopher J. Byrne, sometimes credited as Chris Byrne, directed for Discovery in its third and fourth seasons. Terra Firma, Part 2 concludes Philippa Georgiou's return to the mirror universe and reveals Carl to be the Guardian of Forever. Choose to Live follows Burnham and her mother on the trail of a Qowat Milat nun.
For the first season of Strange New Worlds he directed All Those Who Wander, in which a landing party is trapped aboard the crashed USS Peregrine with newly hatched Gorn. The episode ends with the death of the chief engineer Hemmer and La'an Noonien-Singh taking leave from the ship.