An activist with a telepathic link to a genetically engineered dinosaur, and the sharpest person in any room she is in.
Gertrude Yorkes is a riot grrrl and a social activist, and she has a telepathic link to a genetically engineered dinosaur. Ariela Barer plays her, and the link is not a command: the animal responds to what Gert feels, including the things she is trying not to show.
She carries the series’ politics, its jokes and most of its anxiety, and the show gives her an anxiety disorder rather than treating her nerve as bottomless.