Japanese-born Canadian actor and playwright who played Dr Hirai, the blunt linguistics and communication specialist on the first contact mission to Species 10-C, in the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery.
Hiro Kanagawa is a Canadian actor and award-winning playwright, born in Japan, with a long record of supporting roles in series filmed in Canada.
He joined Star Trek: Discovery late in its fourth season as Dr Hirai, an expert in astrolinguistics and semiotics who is attached to the delegation travelling beyond the galactic barrier to meet the makers of the dark matter anomaly.
Hirai appears in the closing run of the season, including Rosetta, Species Ten-C and Coming Home. Tactless but perceptive, he works with Burnham, Saru and President Rillak to decode the hydrocarbon and light-pattern language of the 10-C.