Canadian actor and writer who played Linus, the Saurian science officer aboard the USS Discovery, from the second season of Star Trek: Discovery through to the end of the series.
David Benjamin Tomlinson is a Canadian actor, comedian and writer who performed under full creature make-up as Linus, a Saurian officer on the USS Discovery.
Linus is introduced in the second-season premiere, Brother, sneezing messily in a turbolift beside Michael Burnham and Captain Pike, and he remained a recurring background and comic presence for the rest of the run, travelling with the crew into the thirty-second century. Tomlinson also took other prosthetic parts on the series, mainly in its early seasons.
The Saurians had been seen briefly in Star Trek: The Motion Picture; Linus was the first of the species to be given a regular place in a crew.