When Geordi cries, do his tears and the VISOR electrocute him?
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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.)
I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying we never saw it regardless. Nemesis not withstanding.
True, so like other equipment and consoles in Trek it would explode in his face.
His visor quite demonstrably never electrocuted him because he never died.
If there was a season 8, it should have featured a Geordi who cries in every episode. It could have been the final arc in the waning moments of TNG.
RIKER:
Is Geordi coming to the poker game tonight?
WORF:
What would be the point? You cannot play poker and cry. All he does is cry.
DATA:
...and become electrocuted when his tears come into contact with his visor.
RIKER:
I wish there was something we could do for him. All this 24th century technology. I guess we'll just have to let him cry.
DATA:
...and become electrocuted when his tears come into contact with his visor.
RIKER:
Thanks, Data.
TROI:
Now Data, you do know the proper term is electric shock, right? Because electrocution by definition means to be killed by exposure to a powerful electric shock.
[Universe explodes]
RIKER:
Is Geordi coming to the poker game tonight?
WORF:
What would be the point? You cannot play poker and cry. All he does is cry.
DATA:
...and become electrocuted when his tears come into contact with his visor.
RIKER:
I wish there was something we could do for him. All this 24th century technology. I guess we'll just have to let him cry.
DATA:
...and become electrocuted when his tears come into contact with his visor.
RIKER:
Thanks, Data.
TROI:
Now Data, you do know the proper term is electric shock, right? Because electrocution by definition means to be killed by exposure to a powerful electric shock.
[Universe explodes]
How dare you!
Because it never happened on screen. That makes it canon. Don't you pay attention to these forums? If a character doesn't do something on screen, they simply don't it at all. That would violate canon. Geordi doesn't cry with the VISOR on....its canon....caaannnoooon I say!
Aw screw it. I tried to channel my inner nerd, but I'm just not feeling it today. Plus my tongue and my cheek are starting to ache.
(And also Alrik; Geordi cries in Nemesis too, so you're not infallible.
That really happened? I thought Nemesis was reset as a dream sequence when Deanna woke up to find Will in the shower. Maybe I'm thinking of a different series.
And see what's happened now? We're discussing a portion of the topic seriously, so we technically we all lose.
Its the TBBS Tosk, bound to happen?
If his VISOR was hit with a large amount of energy that surpassed its ability to contain it then yes. That's why the consoles explode the shields, or ship, takes a large hit of energy that all has to go somewhere and if the shield emitters/"breakers" are overloaded the excess energy has to be unleashed somewhere which, unfortuantely, is the work consoles. It's like when your house or a electrical pole gets hit by lightning the circuitry inside your electronics have miniature "explosions" that damages the equipment, which can still happen in some circumstances even if you have a surge protector. At some point all of the safety checks between two points are going to meet their limit and there's going to be an overflow of energy.
Keep in mind the consoles in Trek aren't everyday workstation computers like we have today, their futuristic consoles that operate at FTL speeds and have high-energy plasma and gigawatts of electricity inside of them. If the system gets over-loaded, yeah, it's going to be messy.
(Though perhaps as Trek wore on the exploding console trope became a bit extreme.)
How can u just leave me standing?
Alone in on a ship that's so cold? (So cold)
Maybe I'm just 2 demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's missing in action (She's missing in action)
Why do we scream at each other
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?)
Brilliant! Completely, absolutely, award-winning brilliant!
That cannot end well in terms of how many characters we never saw using the bathroom.
Do you really want to see Picard or Worf pinching a loaf?
I'm going to assume that it comes out of their behinds....until we get evidence otherwise....I pity the fellow with a video camera or whatever they use, trying to record a burly Klingon doing his or her business, someone's going to get hurt with that one.....I'm guessing they either have something akin to a toilet....probably in a steampunk style, or they squat over it.
I'd say.....~clears throat~ Qa'Puop'Kah!
Though I don't know if Klingons have toilet humor or not....to them it might just be waste.
And for the third one.....apart from needing a little more fiber.......~thinks~.....Kling-ons?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go Qa'Puop'Kah a little bit myself.
~grabs news paper~ 
No it doesn't. Not always, plenty of people have been electrocuted and survived, I would even expect that people living in the 24th century and serving on bases and starships where medical care is very readily available it's even less likely to die from an electrocution.
Yes, always, by definition. Otherwise it's just a shock. A failed electrocution/execution is still just very severe shock.
e·lec·tro·cute (-lktr-kyt)
tr.v. e·lec·tro·cut·ed, e·lec·tro·cut·ing, e·lec·tro·cutes
1. To kill with electricity:
2. To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.
ex·e·cute (ks-kyt)
tr.v. ex·e·cut·ed, ex·e·cut·ing, ex·e·cutes
6. To put to death, especially by carrying out a lawful sentence.
No one has ever been successfully electrocuted and lived. It should be an obvious contradiction. You don't continue to say a person drowned after they were resuscitated using CPR do you? You say they almost drowned or were drowning before they were saved.
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