I'm rethinking Geordie marrying Leah

[CT_Phipps]

To be fair, I can buy it now despite their horrible first meeting.

Leah has a messy divorce.

Geordie has become quadrant famous as an engineer who saved the planet from the Borg (twice)

Leah knows he's into her.

I mean, Star Trek would never make it that messy but it can happen in RL and does.

 

[Mudd]

Geordi was an unselfconscious creep. Not surprisingly, Maurice Hurley made Leah apologize to him for objecting to it.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

We've only seen a few weeks of Geordi's entire life since the destruction of the Enterprise-D, a lot could have happened in those years that sort of untangles their messy first meeting.

Is Leah divorced or a widow? Her and Geordi could have potentially gotten married years after this. She could have lost her husband in whatever capacity during TNG's run giving in more of a respectable time frame. They could've been married in Nemesis and not have it be that messy in that case.

 

[Maurice]

Geordi - e

 

[DonIago]

I'm kind of tired of the TNG characters having such simplistic relationship histories.

Picard: Ends up with Crusher, who he knew before the series even started.
Riker: Ends up with Troi, who he knew before the series even started.
La Forge: Ends up with Leah? The one person who we saw him have any hint of a spark with for the entire run of the series.
Worf: Single? But at least he had a messy relationship with K'ehleyr, then dated Troi, then was actually married to Dax.
Crusher: See Picard.
Troi: See Riker
Data: Single?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Leah and Geordi becoming romantically involved was one of the worst ideas in Trek Lit. It reeks of wish-fulfillment, and it feeds a sense of entitlement. Not to mention, small-universe syndrome to the max.

One of life's lessons is to accept rejection and move on. Would that characters in the Star Trek universe be written to follow anything resembling real life when it comes to interpersonal relationships.

 

[CoveTom]

I'm kind of tired of the TNG characters having such simplistic relationship histories.

Picard: Ends up with Crusher, who he knew before the series even started.
Riker: Ends up with Troi, who he knew before the series even started.
La Forge: Ends up with Leah? The one person who we saw him have any hint of a spark with for the entire run of the series.
Worf: Single? But at least he had a messy relationship with K'ehleyr, then dated Troi, then was actually married to Dax.
Crusher: See Picard.
Troi: See Riker
Data: Single?

Riker and Troi ending up together feels totally organic and believable to those characters. And to their credit, Frakes and Sirtis played it marvelously. In Picard seasons 1 and 3, they are really believable as a married couple.

The remainder, though, I agree with you on.

 

[DonIago]

I wasn't questioning whether it was organic/believable, just saying that on balance, the TNG senior staff had relationship histories that in some cases were little better than, "I married my high school sweetheart."

 

[Mres_was_framed!]

Frakes and Sirtis played it marvelously.

In my opinion, the way in which the audience feels that those two should get back together, without it being overwhelming to most stories in the episodes, is largely underrated as an aspect that adds to the appeal of Star Trek.

little better than, "I married my high school sweetheart."

If these are supposed to be heroic characters, which for TNG itself, not necessarily what came after, is supposed to be true in Roddenberry's vision of the future, then having them end up with what one might imagine is "the right person" fits this style of storytelling, whether it would be cliche or not.

 

[CT_Phipps]

Did Picard end up with Beverly? They had a child but I didn't see them reconciled despite all the laws of movie logic.

 

[DonIago]

Did Picard end up with Beverly? They had a child but I didn't see them reconciled despite all the laws of movie logic.

PIC ends rather ambiguously as far as that goes, IIRC.

 

[CoveTom]

PIC ends rather ambiguously as far as that goes, IIRC.

My suspicion, based on absolutely nothing, is that it was done deliberately that way in an attempt to walk a delicate line between the TNG fans who were wanting to see Picard/Crusher and the Picard fans who had grown invested in Picard/Laris.

 

[Dukhat]

You mean that Irish lady cosplaying as a Romulan?

 

[CT_Phipps]

You mean that Irish lady cosplaying as a Romulan?

Lots of planets have an Ireland!

 

[Detached Nacelle]

You mean that Irish lady cosplaying as a Romulan?

 

[CoveTom]

You mean that Irish lady cosplaying as a Romulan?

It's okay. She was dating that android cosplaying as Picard.

 

[Skipper]

Geordi was an unselfconscious creep. Not surprisingly, Maurice Hurley made Leah apologize to him for objecting to it.

I posted about this, and many users here claimed that Geordi was right and Leah was wrong.

So it seems there's no real consensus on this (I'm on the "Geordi is definitely a creep" team).

 

[Forbin]

Ya know what I wished that last line between them had been?

Not, "Geordie, I thought you knew... I'm married."

I thought - hoped - she was saying "Geordie... I'm gay."

We get a good social commentary moment, some inclusiveness, and Geordie gets a gut-punch realization that yeah, he really does have NO instinct about relationships at all.

 

[Tomalak]

Is it actually canon that Leah Brahms is mother to Sidney and Alandra? I thought that was just fan speculation.

Even Lord Terry didn’t go there:

“We didn't identify so that we could tell that story in a future 'Legacy' tale. But LeVar did have a name in mind. But it is not a character you've seen before.”

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/1598600/star-trek-picard-geordi-wife-identity/

 

[Skipper]

Is it actually canon that Leah Brahms is mother to Sidney and Alandra? I thought that was just fan speculation.

I don't think any sane screenwriter would list Leah as Geordie's wife. It's not the '80s anymore.
I can already imagine the social media campaign: "Why did they marry a woman on Star Trek to a creep, a cyberstalker, someone who gaslighted her? Is this the 'Enlightened Future'?"