Gerard

Battlestar Galactica: Cylon War with the same name, see: Gerard (alternate).

Gerard
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Role	Neurosurgeon
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Portrayed by	John Hodgman
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Dr. Gerard is a civilian brain surgeon within the Fleet, living onboard the Inchon Velle. After Samuel Anders is shot in the head during Felix Gaeta's ill-fated mutiny, Gerard is called in by Dr. Sherman Cottle to assist in his recovery ^{(TRS: "No Exit")}.

Notes

• According to John Hodgman's Twitter, he had originally suggested the name Doctor Zee.
• The name "Gerard" could be a possible reference to the actor Gil Gerard who played Buck Rogers in the Glen A. Larson produced television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Official Statements

• Jane Espenson on John Hodgman's character:

Dr. Gerard was a role we wrote specifically for John Hodgman. He was intended to be a slightly heightened and amusing character, and his pitch-perfect performance helped us get the right tone.

• John Hodgman on playing Dr. Gerard:

I’d always been an observer in every other role that I’ve ever played professionally in my life: journalist, writer, agent, all those things. Now I just had to be there. I remember that because it was a three-dimensional set: They build those rooms, and then send in dudes holding cameras to surround you from different sides. It was completely different from any on-camera experience I had had before, which amounted to The Daily Show, where I’m sitting next to Jon Stewart, or the Apple ads, where I’m standing next to Justin Long. Just pure two-dimensional things. I remember making this decision: There was this X-ray behind me of a bullet lodged in Trucco’s head, and I’m talking about it, feeling myself afraid to cheat too far from the camera. I’m like, “What if I just turned around?” That was the one thing that if I had done that on The Daily Show or the Apple ads, they would yell at me, say “Cut,” and start over, because you’ve gotta be facing the camera. I said to myself, [Whispers.] “I think I’m going to turn around in this scene, in this shot, in this take,” and I delivered my line, “See, now look at this.” And I turned around and pointed at the bullet, and every cell in my body expected to be yelled at that moment, and while I was turned around, I might as well have jumped out of a plane, because I was just so unnerved. Then I turned back, and no one yelled, and the scene continued, and I felt like sighing. “Something has happened.” I think it was maybe that take or the next one where I legitimately, in character, got Starbuck to tell me to frak off. That was the best feeling.