The writers did that because they wanted Geordi to keep the visor for personal reasons. I'm just saying that would have been a good opportunity to ditch the silly visor.
A character with a visor was a mistake
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The writers did that because they wanted Geordi to keep the visor for personal reasons. I'm just saying that would have been a good opportunity to ditch the silly visor.
I'm glad they didn't ditch it.
It was because he couldn't see as well with ocular implants as he did with the VISOR.
As to how much information the VISOR gave him and his brains ability to interpret it, I compare it to my bifocal contacts. As I understand it, the contacts are made of concentric circles, one for distance the other for reading. It took me a few days to be able to switch between the two, other just can't, they either see up close or distance. Geordi must have taken to the visor right away, so he saw no reason for the ocular implants until they matched the VISOR's range of vision.
Well I guess I'm alone in feeling the need to see an actor's eyes in a performance. I don't like it when actors give interviews with sunglasses on, and I don't like it when characters have their eyes covered a lot of the time. I need to see their eyes to feel any kind of connection.
It's a TV show. The writers could have Geordi see with a magic piece of bacon strapped to his shoe. Just write it so that the ocular implants work better than the visor.
Yeah but Star Trek is about Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Saying that you should have a blind man, but just have him look completely like a non-blind person is facile, because blind people DO look different, you don't read them by watching their eyes- Geordi's character reflected this. Next you'll be complaining that Odo was tough to read because makeup covered his entire face. Well, yeah, but you'd hardly call Odo 'unemotional', would you?
Edit: Er, what Christopher said.
As I recall, Geordi was also a nod to a disabled Star Trek fan, George LaForge -- a fan who died before Next Generation went into production. George was a quadriplegic, which wouldn't have worked well in an ongoing action-adventure series, so they changed the disability to blindness. It was a compelling note of optimism about the future. An optimism that's common in Star Trek.
After TNG I find Levar Burton looks odd without it. 
Yes, and they could have made the character with normal vision.
It's a TV show. The writers define the rules of it. As it stands the VISOR was the best Federation technology had at the time, as far as being able to see the fulll EM Spectrum. Geordi liked it, could deal with the head aches and when Ocular Implants caught up with the VISOR he made the change. All because it was a TV show.
I have to admit, whenever I see this shot in Future Imperfect, it kinda does make me wish we got this Geordi instead.
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s4/4x08/futureimperfect066.jpg
Levar may have done wonders behind that VISOR, but he really DOES look radically more expressive without it. Not to mention just a lot sharper looking.
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s4/4x08/futureimperfect066.jpg
Levar may have done wonders behind that VISOR, but he really DOES look radically more expressive without it. Not to mention just a lot sharper looking.
Yeah, and they'd probably have seatbelts too. But their goal wasn't to create an exact simulation of the future, it was to tell stories that engaged and resonated with a present-day audience. Geordi was meant to be a positive symbol for disabled viewers to relate to. That wouldn't have worked if he'd just had his disability completely cured by magic future science.
Whereas I just think he looks more ordinary that way.
Also, I believe there was a line of dialogue where Pulaski explained that the tech for occular impants wasn't quiet where it was with the Visor. At the time occular implants offered 80% of the vision provided by the Visor.
Heck, that might've been insurmountable. One, the VISOR was wraparound and offered a wider uninterrupted field of view than eyes are capable of. Two, the VISOR had a larger width than the pupil of a humanlike eye and thus could've detected longer wavelengths in the microwave part of the spectrum than even a bionic eye could. So just by dint of shape and design, there are things the VISOR could do that no eye-shaped sensors could no matter how technologically advanced they got.
I still say it was getting tired of the snatching off of, especially since the last time it happened it was bugged when he got it back and they used said buf to blow up the Enterprise-D.
You want them to be strapped to an exploding console?
Yeah but eye-shaped senmsors can't be taking off and moved into the new room where the bad guy is free to bug it so he can find out how to blow up your ship without surgery so the chances of you would probably know something was fishy.
Plus Geordi probably got tired of being left in the darkness becuase who ever captured him this week is a sick f@#k who thinks torturing and/or brainwashing and/or experimenting on a guy who can't see becuase you took his Visor is a fun way to pass time.
You want them to be strapped to an exploding console?
If they remembered how to make seatbelts, they'd remember how to make circuit breakers too. Exploding consoles are dramatic license just like flying around the bridge is.
I don't blame that on the VISOR, I blame it on the writers who couldn't think of a good use for it other than a torture implement.
As I've said before, I've become convinced that TNG would've been a better show if they'd made Worf the chief engineer and Geordi the security chief. Then we could've seen the VISOR developed as the superpower it should've been -- and its vulnerability to tampering would've been Geordi's kryptonite, the thing that balanced out the advantages it gave him, rather than being the only thing they ever did with it so that it seemed to have no advantages.
So... if you didn't connect at all with Geordi, did you at least half-connect with Martok?
There were several times that certain frequencies or colors that Geordi saw had an impact on knowing what to do Engineering-wise, so, I believe they did use it to some degree as an advantage to his Engineering job.You want them to be strapped to an exploding console?
If they remembered how to make seatbelts, they'd remember how to make circuit breakers too. Exploding consoles are dramatic license just like flying around the bridge is.
I don't blame that on the VISOR, I blame it on the writers who couldn't think of a good use for it other than a torture implement.
As I've said before, I've become convinced that TNG would've been a better show if they'd made Worf the chief engineer and Geordi the security chief. Then we could've seen the VISOR developed as the superpower it should've been -- and its vulnerability to tampering would've been Geordi's kryptonite, the thing that balanced out the advantages it gave him, rather than being the only thing they ever did with it so that it seemed to have no advantages.
