American actor and singer who plays Jay-Den Kraag, Star Trek's first openly gay Klingon, in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Karim Diané is an American actor and singer who gained international recognition for his role in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
He plays Jay-Den Kraag, a Klingon cadet and aspiring medical officer, noted as the franchise's first openly gay Klingon. To prepare for performing under heavy prosthetics, Diané sought advice from Michael Dorn and Doug Jones, and the makeup process, which initially took about five hours each day, was cut to roughly two by the end of the first season.