I can see clearly now...

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Besides Kirk having to hock his glasses in "The Voyage Home" has any other Trek character ever been seen wearing eye-glasses. I am assuming that by the 23th century medical science would have eliminated any need for glasses, am I wrong in this assumption. Or has there been others wearing glasses...

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

i am originally from the 23rd century and i wear glasses occasionally...

 

[Dale]

I can see all obstacles in my way.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

If I recall correctly, the engineer (forget his name) on TNG wears some kind of glasses-like equipment that enables some kind of vision

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I can see all obstacles in my way.

Thanks, I got that song stuck in my head now.

 

[FalTorPan]

My future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

 

[captcalhoun]

there was an Asian transporter operator on the 1701 in The Cage with thick-rimmed black specs

 

[Sector 7]

I'm hoping when I go back home to the Federation, I won't have to wear glasses any more.

Today we have Lasik which advanced to Wave Front Laser eye surgery. They have their flaws currently, but by the 23rd century I don't think glasses will be for focus correction. Glasses (in whatever form) will be to give sight to those blind at birth or through accident.
At the time of The Cage, or even when The Voyage Home was filmed, Laser surgery wasn't known.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

^ Don't we have hairclips for that?

Oh sorry, wrong century.

 

[Ethros]

there was an Asian transporter operator on the 1701 in The Cage with thick-rimmed black specs

What I was gonna say
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/0x00/thecage087.jpg

 

[Sector 7]

there was an Asian transporter operator on the 1701 in The Cage with thick-rimmed black specs

What I was gonna say
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/0x00/thecage087.jpg

Ah, yes... the stereotype of Asian in kimono and glasses... Engineer Moto as I recall.

 

[backstept]

there was that one episode where Riker infiltrated some pre-warp planet and had an accident or something . . . lots of those people had glasses

 

[Crewman47]

I'm hoping when I go back home to the Federation, I won't have to wear glasses any more.

Today we have Lasik which advanced to Wave Front Laser eye surgery. They have their flaws currently, but by the 23rd century I don't think glasses will be for focus correction. Glasses (in whatever form) will be to give sight to those blind at birth or through accident.
At the time of The Cage, or even when The Voyage Home was filmed, Laser surgery wasn't known.

In TWOK it was mentioned by McCoy that there was something called Retnax 5 (sp?) that could correct a persons vision. It was just that Kirk was allergic to it and glasses seemed to be, at the time, the only alternative.

 

[Good Will Riker]

...a Sarah Palin look-alike sporting alien-rimmed glasses.

 

[FalTorPan]

there was an Asian transporter operator on the 1701 in The Cage with thick-rimmed black specs

What I was gonna say
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/0x00/thecage087.jpg

Those aren't spectacles. That's a proto-VISOR.

 

[dave_R_treker]

I can see all obstacles in my way.

Thanks, I got that song stuck in my head now.

And know so do I.

 

[Triskelion]

...a Sarah Palin look-alike sporting alien-rimmed glasses.

I always thought she looked liked Frasier's first wife Lilith?

 

[Trekker4747]

Besides Kirk having to hock his glasses in "The Voyage Home" has any other Trek character ever been seen wearing eye-glasses. I am assuming that by the 23th century medical science would have eliminated any need for glasses, am I wrong in this assumption. Or has there been others wearing glasses...

Kirk was alergic to a 23rd century medication that could correct his vision -which is why he needed glasses.

There was the transporter operator in The Cage who had glasses but the "canon" in that episode is dubious. The same episode had Spock smiling, so it's open to question on what was really the intent of things there. I guess, only Gene knows - I suppose.

But considering aside from that one strangler and Kirk's case more or less shows that ways of correcting vision (implants, surgery, drugs, prosthetics, maybe even cloned implants) has pretty high success rate.

 

[Mike Farley]

In TUC the Federation President wore glasses too.

 

[LutherSloan]

In TUC the Federation President wore glasses too.

Yes, and he was not even human...