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{{Character Data
| photo=BR25 - Dr. Goodfellow - B&W Photo.jpg
| photo=BR25 - Crichton.png
| role=Head Scientist, ''[[Searcher]]''
| role=Robotic research assistant, ''[[Searcher]]''
| born=
| birthdate=[[2492]] CE
| born=''Searcher''{{'|s}} lab
| seen=Time of the Hawk
| seen=Time of the Hawk
| actor=[[Wilfrid Hyde-White]]
| actor=[[Jeff David]] (voice)
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|Admiral Efram Asimov | Goodfellow, you built that irritating pile of junk. Can't you build some respect for authority into him?
|Dr. Goodfellow| Crichton? Yes. A truly remarkable robot, I tell you.
|Dr. Goodfellow | I'm afraid not, Admiral. It appears that Crichton doesn't believe I constructed him.
|Colonel Wilma Deering| That's the understatement of the century.
| Admiral Efram Asimov| He doesn't what?
|Dr. Goodfellow | Century? No, no. Not century, Colonel - millennium. Do you know he's absorbed an entire millennium in the last three days? And he's extraordinarily attuned to the unusual. Do you know what he said to me this morning? He told me that the tongue - listen to this - The tongue of a blue whale can weigh as much as a full-grown elephant.
|Dr. Goodfellow| ''[chuckles]''  He finds it inconceivable that anything human had a hand in his creation.
|Colonel Wilma Deering| Oh, come, Doctor. That's a little hard to believe.
|Admiral Efram Asimov | I don't think I believe what I'm hearing.
|Dr. Goodfellow | Difficult to swallow, you mean?
|Dr. Goodfellow | Well, his life span is virtually unlimited; his factual knowledge far exceeds that of any of us; and he is, I'm afraid, just a trifle contemptuous of human frailties, to which he's not subject.
|attribution=Dr. [[Goodfellow]] and Col. [[Wilma Deering]] aboard ''Searcher'', {{BR25|Time of the Hawk|prose=Y}}
|attribution=Admiral [[Efram Asimov]] and Dr. Goodfellow aboard ''Searcher'', {{BR25|Time of the Hawk|prose=Y}}
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Dr. '''Goodfellow''' is a scientist assigned to the starship ''[[Searcher]]'' in [[2492]] CE.
'''Crichton''' is a robot invented by Dr. [[Goodfellow]], a scientist aboard to the starship ''[[Searcher]]'', in [[2492]] CE.


In his role aboard ''Searcher'', Goodfellow offers scientific counsel to Admiral [[Efram Asimov]] and oversight of scientific operations of [[Earth Defense Directorate]]'s officers. Also accompanying him [[Crichton]], a robotic artificial intelligence of seemingly infinite knowledge and wisdom—who disbelieves that Goodfellow, much less any human, could have created it {{BR25|Time of the Hawk}}.   
Goodfellow, assisted by [[Twiki]], assembles Crichton and brings the robot online during its expedition to find the lost colonies of Earth. While Crichton has previously unmatched abilities to acquire and disseminate information, Crichton has features that belie its intellect, including a haughty arrogance above humans—despite its inability to defy orders per the [[Three Laws of Robotics] {{BR25|Time of the Hawk}}.   


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Revision as of 22:49, 27 January 2021

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Crichton? Yes. A truly remarkable robot, I tell you.
That's the understatement of the century.
Century? No, no. Not century, Colonel - millennium. Do you know he's absorbed an entire millennium in the last three days? And he's extraordinarily attuned to the unusual. Do you know what he said to me this morning? He told me that the tongue - listen to this - The tongue of a blue whale can weigh as much as a full-grown elephant.
Oh, come, Doctor. That's a little hard to believe.
Difficult to swallow, you mean?

Crichton is a robot invented by Dr. Goodfellow, a scientist aboard to the starship Searcher, in 2492 CE.

Goodfellow, assisted by Twiki, assembles Crichton and brings the robot online during its expedition to find the lost colonies of Earth. While Crichton has previously unmatched abilities to acquire and disseminate information, Crichton has features that belie its intellect, including a haughty arrogance above humans—despite its inability to defy orders per the [[Three Laws of Robotics] (BR25: "Time of the Hawk").