Canadian actor, writer and filmmaker who played the cybernetically augmented officer Lieutenant Commander Airiam in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery.
Hannah Cheesman is a Canadian actor, writer and director whose work includes the web series Whatever, Linda, which she co-created and starred in.
She took over the part of Airiam, the Discovery's spore drive operations officer, for the show's second season; Sara Mitich had played the character in the first. Airiam is a human rebuilt with artificial parts after a shuttle accident, a history finally explored in Project Daedalus. In that episode her systems are hijacked by Control, and she begs her crewmates to open the airlock and end her life before she can hand over the sphere data.
The episode, directed by Jonathan Frakes, gave the previously silent background figure a memory archive, friendships and a farewell, and Cheesman performed it under a full prosthetic head and body make-up.