I offered you friendship

[DataRules]

Hollywood has this "device" that STAR TREK has always deployed and it's in TNG, too, where it doesn't matter what idea is being forwarded, as much as it matters who is expressing it. So, for example, Here's LaForge BUSTED and instead of coming clean, he offers up this bullshit line of defense. BUT ... but ... because it is coming from someone we're meant to know and like, and said so sincerely, that we - as an audience - are just meant to buy it, too.

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Yep, at BEST he wanted a 'friends with benefits' arrangement. I still remember laughing out loud when he delivered the line as it was a 100% crock. She and He KNEW what he was offering when she walked into the 'soft lights and music' routine in his quarters.

There's also the line in "Hollow Pursuits" where Geordi (in reference to his Holodeck experiences said, "I fell in Love in there once..." - a clear reference to the situation in "Booby Trap".

In the end, she felt he was a weird stalker; and that's EXACTLY how he came across in the majority of the episode. If anything, Picard should have been informed and Geordi sent to Counselor Troi for therapy

Yeah, I remember than BS line. I cringed. Just so wrong...

 

[The Old Mixer]

We don't even know if the Leah mentioned in AGT would have been Leah Brahms.

Or, maybe holographic rights have come a long way at that point, and he actually married the hologram....

 

[Hober Mallow]

What's scary is that this comedy recut of the episode didn't have to change much to make Geordi really creepy.

 

[Nebusj]

Marriage with a time limit? Weird.

It was one of Gene's ideas. He really wanted to live in a happy fun sexytime future where he could bang whoever he wanted and nobody would judge him for it.

It's hardly his creation; the idea of limited-term marriages has been around in science fiction for generations, and I'd be shocked if it weren't conceptually much older. (If I were to guess, I'd expect it to date to the mid-19th century, in modern thought, probably linked to the movement to make women equal to people, but I don't know its history.)

 

[Makarov]

Jewelry stores would love it, if you have to buy a new ring every time you renew the license.

 

[JarodRussell]

Jewelry stores would love it, if you have to buy a new ring every time you renew the license.

Divorce lawyers would hate it.

 

[publiusr]

Then we should be all for it.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Marriage with a time limit? Weird.

It was one of Gene's ideas. He really wanted to live in a happy fun sexytime future where he could bang whoever he wanted and nobody would judge him for it.

It's hardly his creation; the idea of limited-term marriages has been around in science fiction for generations, and I'd be shocked if it weren't conceptually much older. (If I were to guess, I'd expect it to date to the mid-19th century, in modern thought, probably linked to the movement to make women equal to people, but I don't know its history.)

From the article Handfasting (Neopaganism) at Wikipedia: The marriage vows taken may be for "a year and a day," "a lifetime", "for all of eternity" or "for as long as love shall last."

When I was involved with a local coven, I knew a couple that did the "year and a day" thing and had renewed it several times - enough that they were also married in common law by the laws of our state.

 

[Nightdiamond]

I must have watched this episode a million times and I never realized Geordi was lying through his ass when he said that.

What's more, the background music and Leah's guilt reaction makes it look like Geordi was the innocent one.

Obviously Geordi tried to seduced Leah. Private dinner in someone's personal quarters-- acquaintances like that would usually have lunch in a public place, like 10 forward.

If Geordi had his way Leah wouldn't have left until morning.

 

[T'Girl]

Should have had the dinner on the holodeck, if everything went just right, Geordie could of had a three-some.

Leah sandwich.