Did Geordie marry a REAL girl?

[Guy Gardener]

Geordi comes across as an asexual desperately trying to get a girlfriend because that's what he feels is expected of him.

I suspect that there are plenty of blind perverts out there, obsessed with physical beauty, but maybe Geordi is not one of them.

But Geordi's blindness matched with his VISOR registers as synethsesia.

The world around him is a swirling rainbow, and he can identify specific people from how their rainbows swirl.

Gibney's pretty face doesn't matter.

She could have a snout, and Geordi would still "feel" the same, because that is not articulatable to him.

Does the Holodeck seem like swirling rainbows to him, or is it what we see?

How the hell does he read?

 

[Oddish]

His VISOR can presumably see in the normal visual spectrum, among other ways. It also has a lie detector mode that conveniently only worked once (of course, given that its one use led to Riker committing murder, maybe it's a good thing that we just forget about it).

 

[Orphalesion]

C Given how much more communicable and harder to treat STDs are nowadays, it's more than idle optimism to believe that Gene's fantasy utopia allows free coitus for all and all diseases are eradicated. The only thing missing is the unicorn clock pooping rainbows every hour on the hour.

In Star Trek a doctor would just shine a blue light over your tinkle tink(er) and everything would be cured.

At times, I got the impression Gene should have written for "Logan's Run" instead, seems more believable there... His rewrites of "Justice" would have fit in far better over there...

I mean yeah, it is the same brand of cheap, easy and meaningless (but naturally always heteronormative) sex. Though that seems to have been a theme in a lot of 1960s SciFi.

 

[Oddish]

In Star Trek a doctor would just shine a blue light over your tinkle tink(er) and everything would be cured.

Except Enterprise. Instead, there would be a dimly lit scene on the Holodeck with you and another underwear-clad character smearing unidentified goop all over each other in a quasi-erotic manner.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Never found those scenes particularly erotic. Came across as some they had to do but wasn't fun.

 

[Orphalesion]

Never found those scenes particularly erotic. Came across as some they had to do but wasn't fun.

Nobody found those scenes erotic. Absolutely nobody. Except maybe Berman.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Nobody found those scenes erotic. Absolutely nobody. Except maybe Berman.

Well they weren't written or performed erotically. It was people talking while slathering each other with goop. Like your mom might after you spent all day in the sun without sunscreen.

 

[Hawku]

Geordi married a Leah hologram approved by the real Leah, and when that Leah hologram ran off with a Geordi hologram, Geordi reluctantly approved it because even if simulated, love should be.

 

[Orphalesion]

Geordi married a Leah hologram approved by the real Leah, and when that Leah hologram ran off with a Geordi hologram, Geordi reluctantly approved it because even if simulated, love should be.

That's the question though... was the Hologram sapient or was it the equivalent of some guy marrying his body pillow?

 

[Oddish]

Well they weren't written or performed erotically. It was people talking while slathering each other with goop. Like your mom might after you spent all day in the sun without sunscreen.

Or preferably, before you went out in the sun.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Or preferably, before you went out in the sun.

Nah, Mom needs to tell you "I told you so".

 

[Oddish]

Nah, Mom needs to tell you "I told you so".

And then next time you don't complain when she plasters you with the stuff first.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That's the question though... was the Hologram sapient or was it the equivalent of some guy marrying his body pillow?

Fresh out of the box, factory settings, Federation Holograms are not sapient, because that would be slavery, and the Federation does not condone slavery.

If weird shit happens, or you run a hologram for 8 years with out a reset, if they had enough memory to begin with, your hologram may be sapient. The EMH went space crazy after 2 years because it hadn't been reset. Regularly resetting the holograms is an essential work around against sapience and slavery.

Although...

Geordi knows how to make a Moriarty Class Hologram, if he really wants to couple with another woman looking for an excuse to leave him almost immediately after meeting him.

Although, it would only be sensible to make Federation Holograms incompatible with Moriarty software, to avoid sapience, a hologram revolution and the extermination of the humanoid races. Moriarty like programming/software should trigger an automatic reset, to keep holograms under foot as a nonsapient slave class.

This reeks of abortion double speak.

You have to kill it before 16 weeks when it actually becomes a person.

 

[Oddish]

I would think that normally, there are safeties on holograms (and other large computers) that limits how "human" they are. But the Doctor probably is exempt because of the amount of knowledge he has to possess. Leave him running, and he'll become human-like. Vic Fontaine and Moriarty are probably holograms of the same type.

"Pleasure" program holograms are probably only given enough knowledge to react appropriately when you... make use of them. Last thing you'd want is for them to be sentient; they might reject you like a real person would.

 

[Guy Gardener]

"Pleasure" program holograms are probably only given enough knowledge to react appropriately when you...

Lay there very still, and maybe occasionally yawn?

 

[Oddish]

Lay there very still, and maybe occasionally yawn?

If that's what you're used to, I expect your holo-significant other could replicate it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If that's what you're used to, I expect your holo-significant other could replicate it.

Mormon pre marital loophole sex.

They stick it in, and then stay very very still because God is a T-Rex.

It's called "soaking“.

 

[Oddish]

I expect you'd either ejaculate or go limp. Neither seems like a particularly positive outcome. But hey, whatever turns your crank.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Geordie always came off as creepy to me.

Maybe its because he had zero toxic masculinity, it seemed like he had zero masculinity.

There was a reason that only the Robot would spend time with him.

Sigh.

In the anti time future from the All Good Things..., It's barely touched on that Geordie has a romantic partnership with someone or something called "Leah".

You would assume that it's "Leah Brahms" a human woman whom we have met, who has forgiven LaForge for fornicating with her holographic duplicate without written permission, because the automated sex doll industry was in its infancy when this episode aired, and now it isn't.

Did Geordie marry a hologram?

Is the real Leah okay with this, or is she suing Geordie to murder his wife?

Or was it the real Leah's idea, so that Geordie La Forge would stop stalking her?

If so, did his "friends" conclude that a holographic slave as an intimacy surrogate is better than no one, and none of them was going to consider an intervention until after the La Forges had kids?

Barclay dying a virgin is a cautionary story.

Reg would have had a much happier life if only they had let him keep diddling Holo Deanna.

I didn't find Geordi creepy at all; he was fascinated by a brilliant engineer who happened to be a beautiful woman. He had a fantasy which went a bit off the rails but that's being human and at times those things happen to the best of us. I don't know too much about the male brain wave from my own but I had fantasies of men and I'm not sure how I would process such a dreamscape if there was a virtual program at my disposal. Georgi was a healthy man at his age and got carried away; it just showed the power of how a fantasy could get out of hand based on the situation.

As for an elderly Georgi mentioning Leah in AGT, it was an alternate reality where it could've been Brahms. Marrying a hologram, I just don't see Geordi as THE GUY to do such a thing, something so beyond the realm of plausibility would be more of a Barkley trait. That man was creepy and everything about him lit up my spider-sense. Not a fan of that character, I wouldn't even trust him around my brother.

 

[Mojochi]

You would assume that it's "Leah Brahms" a human woman whom we have met, who has forgiven LaForge for fornicating with her holographic duplicate without written permission, because the automated sex doll industry was in its infancy when this episode aired, and now it isn't.

I wouldn't assume any of that, because there's no indication that anything like that ever happened, except this future version of Geordi marrying the real Leah, because it's stated rather ordinarily that they have 2 kids growing or grown, & not some holographic family he's distubingly designed off of a real person as the template mother... A mother who is actually running the Daystrom Institute, which is a pinnacle achievement in the real Leah's field, who I imagine might take issue with some hologram of her holding that position, instead of her. So is that a fantasy too?

I doubt elder Picard would be humoring the fantasy of a nut job that divergent. It is a pretty nonsensical turn of events for Geordi. Weak & unflattering writing to be sure, but plausible. Her 1st marriage didn't work out. He ended up being her 2nd. No big whoop