Introduced as Cleveland Booker (David Ajala), this Star Trek: Discovery characters history is as complex as the very name he carried into the series. At first, he just seems like a run-of-the-mill galactic criminal. He works as a courier for dubious clients. He turns on Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) shortly after the two meet in a chance collision. She's just zoomed into the future after saving those in her present as the Red Angel; hes on the run after stealing mysterious cargo from a fellow courier, a Betelgeusian named Cosmo Traitt. Michael and Cleveland end up crashing onto the nearby planet of Hima in season 3, episode 1, That Hope is You, Part I.