When Geordi cries, do his tears and the VISOR electrocute him?

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  1. doubleohfive

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    Title says it all. Do they?
     
  2. Tosk

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    "No."

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  3. T'Girl

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    We have (iirc) seen Geordi wearing the VISOR in the rain, he wasn't harmed from that, and the VISOR wasn't damaged just from getting wet.

    Nor is there any indication that the VISOR requires an unusually amount of power to function. It might event be powered by Geordi himself through the terminals at his temples, feeding off of Geordi's nervous system.

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  5. Lost Astronaut

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    Geordi doesn't cry because he's John Wayne like that.
     
  6. Alrik

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    We never saw Geordi cry with the VISOR on. If he had, it would have been, well, shocking.


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  7. Tosk

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    This is what it sounds like
    When Geordi cries...

    (oh come on, I can't be the only one who thought of it on reading the title? :D)
     
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    Well, nothing in the Trek universe "uses electricity" but some other advanced power source. Geordi's VISOR also is likely powered by the temporal nodes which likely generate power from his own body's burning of calories for energy. So, no, I don't think him crying would cause him to be electrocuted since the power in the thing is not that great and I also suspect that the designers of the thing would have thought of that.

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  10. doubleohfive

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    Honestly, I watched "Measure of a Man" last night and my roommate and I were crackin' wise throughout, and during the party scene early in the episode, Geordi is (understandably) bummed. We joked that he couldn't cry because the VISOR would electrocute him, and then laughed even harder when he suggested I post the question as a thread here.

    "Can you imagine how many people would answer it seriously?"

    Which sounds really asshole-y when I read that back, but it was more just a matter of posting the most inane thing we could think of. And I think we can all agree - of all the pointless discussions that go on here on this BBS, this is pretty damn inane :lol:
     
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    If so, I'd hate to see what happens when Data gets wet.
     
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    Because I am a Serial TNG Watcher. I've seen every episode more times than I can count. I do not recall a single instance where Burton mustered a tear in TNG, with the exception of Insurrection when Geordi witnessed his first sunrise with his regenerated eyes. It's possible I could have missed an instance, but I don't think so.
     
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    Well, him and Tasha... [nudge nudge, wink wink]
     
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    Just speculating, but it seems to me that Geordi may have simply removed the VISOR if he really felt a good cry coming on, much in the way someone wearing glasses would. It'd be the same if he shed only a single tear, or even if his eyes just felt tired/fatigued.

    I imagine if there was some kind of fluid reservoir built in the VISOR it would have to be small, and therefore emptied frequently... sounds like a pain if you can just take it off.
     
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  17. Trekker4747

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    Geordi was clearly very upset and distraught as he suffered from the Psi 2000 Virus Variant in "The Naked Now." I'd say that -story wise- he was "crying" in those scenes even if we never saw tears (which can be chalked up to a simple production or acting limitation.)
     
  18. Hedbergian

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    Yea, it would electrocute him. And I bet he'd be like one of those dramatic types, like "Oh God I wanna die" or "Boo hoo, my face is melting".
     
  19. Tosk

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    That was pretty much my point though. How do you know he never cried while wearing the VISOR? (And also Alrik; Geordi cries in Nemesis too, so you're not infallible. ;) )

    And see what's happened now? We're discussing a portion of the topic seriously, so we technically we all lose. :cardie:
     
  20. The Castellan

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    I could have sworn he was crying during in "The Naked Now", during both talking to Tasha, and when Bev was testing the cure from Kirk's time to see if it works.

    And I doubt he'd be electrocuted, the guys who designed the VISOR would have to realize that the wearer of these might cry on occasion, be it emotional or something got in the eyes. Would be bad designing otherwise. I think the VISOR draws energy from the person, like the travel machines the Daleks use, since in "Death to the Daleks", they were able to move, despite the energy siphoning of the Exxilon City.