Singh

Lt Farid Singh is Second Engineer, Venkatrangan’s right-hand man and the more experienced of the two Engineering lieutenants in the comic. He’s got years of experience of running EVAs and driving work bees and the work pods that preceded them.

He’s from the same colony world as Tadahiro Honda originally, though he has now spent more of his life in flight and on stations than on any given planet.

The reason I have added a character wearing a Sikh turban was partly that turbans look cool, but also as a signal signal that not all Earth culture is been erased and replaced with vaguely Californian blandness during centuries between today and Trek. There is an obvious quibble—the future society depicted in Trek is supposed to be atheist (at least until DS9, when they suddenly discovered the concept of cultural diversity). I’m not in a position to speculate too much as to the future of Sikh thought over the next 300 years, but I can imagine Lt Singh explaining his turban to a vulcan as symbolic of a Sikh’s dedication to protecting all people regardless of caste or creed—without needing to discuss the existence or otherwise of God.