Dr. Birkhoff

Doctor Birkhoff is one of the officers stationed aboard the USS Hermes, most likely named after American mathematician George David Birkhoff. He has an amicable relationship with the rest of his crew, as evidenced by his teasing remarks to Officer Jordan during a game of Pictionary. It is not clarified whether his title of 'Doctor' comes from a medical degree, a PhD, or both, but he likely is an astrophysicist in some capacity, as he corrects Captain Bernoulli on the classification of the stellar flare produced by the Contact Event. In the three episode sequence of A Place for Everything, Idle Hands, and The Devil's Plaything, it is revealed that he and the rest of the Hermes crew are under the control of Doctor Pryce, and that all four of them are effectively brain-dead. In the last of these episodes, Jacobi jams the frequency that Pryce was using to animate and take control of the Hermes crew, and Birkhoff, along with his colleagues, drops to the floor, apparently out of commission for the rest of the show.
=== Appearances ===
* Into the Depths
* A Place for Everything (mentioned)
Category:Characters
Category:Hermes Crew