Leland was a 23rd century Human and a high-ranking officer of Section 31, Starfleet's covert intelligence organization, active in 2257. As a young operative in the mid-2230s he worked on the Daedalus Project time-travel research and blamed himself for the deaths of Michael Burnham's parents at Doctari Alpha.
He supervised sensitive Section 31 operations and was well known to Christopher Pike, but was ultimately abducted and murdered by the rogue artificial intelligence Control, which reanimated his corpse as a vessel. His body was destroyed when Philippa Georgiou trapped Control in a magnetized spore cube. Leland appeared in Star Trek: Discovery, portrayed by Alan van Sprang.
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