American actor and comedian, born in 1976, who voiced Lieutenant Commander Andy Billups, chief engineer of the USS Cerritos, throughout Star Trek: Lower Decks from 2020 to 2024.
Paul Scheer is an American actor, comedian and writer born in 1976. He is known for playing Andre in The League and Keith Shankar in Black Monday, and for a recurring part in Veep.
In Star Trek: Lower Decks he voiced Andy Billups, the mild and devoted chief engineer of the USS Cerritos and the superior officer of Ensign Rutherford. Scheer played the character in around twenty-five episodes across all five seasons, from 2020 to 2024.
Billups is given his own story in the second-season episode Where Pleasant Fountains Lie, which reveals that he is a prince of the Renaissance-styled human colony Hysperia and that his mother, Queen Paolana, is determined to trick him into taking the throne.