And it IS possible that Brahms' first husband had long since died (in the novelverse, he did) or for entirely unrelated reasons the marriage ended. Geordi doesn't have to have anything to do with that.
As creepy as he does sometimes get, Geordi is not a homewrecker.
Oh... no. I wasn't suggesting anything like that. I always imagined some kind of an organic end to her marriage, like he died, or they divorced independent from anything to do with him, & then she came across Geordi at some function or something where things started going his way. Heck, she's human, but her husband might not have been, & it could've been a temporary marriage or some other kind of alien cultural observance, that made her available at some later point.
Has Geordi ever been creepy at any other time, or was it just a "Galaxy's Child" thing? I tend to stick to my favorite episodes, so I might have missed another instance.
I wouldn't say creepy, but he was rather awkward with Cristy Henshaw in Transfigurations, over-planning some romantic beach holodeck program for their date, & then there's the entire Aquiel ordeal, where he gets something of an infatuation with a woman from combing over her personal logs, while investigating her presumed death. It's nothing that bad really, but it's just another example of him having an unusual way of becoming interested in a woman, that keeps compiling into a profile of a guy who's socially odd with women. The overall effect is an unflattering depiction.
There's even little things, like his jealousy of Wesley's date in Sarek, which was amplified by Sarek's condition, but there must've been something there to amplify, because let's face it, even goofy Wesley was smoother with Robin Lefler than Geordi had ever been on that show lol.
Oh yeah, & it's also not too cool to let a subordinate (Tyler from Phantasms) have a crush on you & just let it keep going on, because you don't have any social skills with women. It's not a good look no matter what the circumstances.
That's pretty much all the instances I can think of that could've painted Geordi as a creep by many commenters, & personally I think it's entirely overblown, as many things are deliberately made so in a fandom. The only time he's tripped over any kind of line is with Leah Brahms, & even that is debatable in its intent. I think he certainly had the wrong idea about her, & proceeded poorly, but she also had the wrong idea about him, when seeing that program, which I still think might've been the only one there was, & she took it the wrong way. I'm not excusing him. He clearly has a good deal to apologize for, but an apology was all that was really merited.
This is why if I were going to construct a past for Future Geordi, I'd have went with Sonya Gomez. She might just have been the only woman he ever interacted with personally that it didn't seem creepy...Scratch that... He was actually pretty cool with Ro Laren by the end of The Next Phase too. Now
that could've been an interesting shipping imho.
