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| photo=BR25 - Dr. Goodfellow - B&W Photo.jpg
| photo=BR25 - Efram Asimov.png
| role=Head Scientist, ''[[Searcher]]''
| role=Commanding Officer, ''[[Searcher]]''
| rank=Admiral
| born=
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| seen=Time of the Hawk
| seen=Time of the Hawk
| actor=[[Wilfrid Hyde-White]]
| actor=[[Jay Garner]]
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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?
|Admiral Efram Asimov | ''[impatiently]''  You listen to me, kettle belly: this is Admiral Asimov. You get up here to the bridge now!
|Dr. Goodfellow | I'm afraid not, Admiral. It appears that Crichton doesn't believe I constructed him.
|Crichton | Oh, very well, Admiral. By robotic law conceived by some distant and overweening ancestor of yours, also named Asimov, I am obliged to obey your commands. However, this is an appalling inconvenience.
| Admiral Efram Asimov| He doesn't what?
|attribution=Adm. Asimov and [[Crichton]] aboard ''Searcher'', {{BR25|Time of the Hawk|prose=Y}}
|Dr. Goodfellow| ''[chuckles]''  He finds it inconceivable that anything human had a hand in his creation.
|Admiral Efram Asimov | I don't think I believe what I'm hearing.
|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=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.
Admiral '''Efram Asimov''' is the commanding officer of the [[Earth Defense Directorate]] 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}}.  
Asimov's lineage is traceable to that of [[Issac Asimov]], a science fiction author known for inventing the [[Three Laws of Robotics]] {{BR25|Time of the Hawk}}.


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Efram Asimov in the separate continuity
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[impatiently] You listen to me, kettle belly: this is Admiral Asimov. You get up here to the bridge now!
Oh, very well, Admiral. By robotic law conceived by some distant and overweening ancestor of yours, also named Asimov, I am obliged to obey your commands. However, this is an appalling inconvenience.

 — Adm. Asimov and Crichton aboard Searcher, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's "Time of the Hawk"

Admiral Efram Asimov is the commanding officer of the Earth Defense Directorate starship Searcher in 2492 CE.

Asimov's lineage is traceable to that of Issac Asimov, a science fiction author known for inventing the Three Laws of Robotics (BR25: "Time of the Hawk").