VISOR + holodeck = ?

[LMFAOschwarz]

Ever since I started this thread, I've been recalling various Geordi Questions I had while watching the show.

How is it that Geordi can read the consoles on the ship? I always took it that those consoles are 're-configurable', displaying nearly any control surface needed, so I would take it that the screens are awash in energy. Who knows..maybe he can distinguish the controls by the electrical patterns. He didn't seem to have any trouble viewing subtleties in the playback log from his old ship in Identity Crisis...but I dare Geordi to try and watch a modern-day television set!

 

[JarodRussell]

so I would take it that the screens are awash in energy.

I guess they will have RGB pixels in the future as well, no matter how small they are, and no matter what they are made of.

 

[Timo]

People seem to think LaForge has trouble isolating a particular signal from the broad spectrum he sees - but the man himself does NOT indicate this would be the case. He's quite at ease with the massive input of information, and can interpret it to his satisfaction. The only downside is that the VISOR gives him splitting headaches...

I don't see why LaForge should have problems with consoles and the like. It's a bit like thinking that I can't be typing this text here because my eyes are awash with information from the computer screen, including colors and moving picture from ads, necessarily blinding me to the symbols on the keyboard. I can process that much information, and I don't need to see the keys; LaForge has lifelong experience with his level of input, and he wouldn't need to see the keys, either.

LaForge isn't handicapped - he's the opposite, a superior lifeform with better senses (and the headaches). The goofs with his abilities only come from those moments where he fails to be superhuman and is merely human (say, when he uses a flashlight to study something that would obviously self-emit useful radiation at some wavelength at least).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[LogicDeLuxe]

But GeordiVision is based on established abilities that are later forgotten, whereas there never was an episode claiming that Data couldn't or wouldn't use contractions.

Lore was teasing him because he can not. If Data could, he would just have proven it, instead of "feeling" inferior, doesn't he?
Although it still sounds very unlikely for Data not be able to indeed.

 

[Timo]

Lore was teasing him because he can not. If Data could, he would just have proven it, instead of "feeling" inferior, doesn't he?

Absolutely not. That would have meant betraying who Data was - he uses formal language because that's him. He has no ambition to feel superior, least of all by imitating his brother.

Also, Lore never claimed Data could not use contractions, he merely pointed out he did not. Or, rather, that he was not in the habit of using those as far as Lore could tell from his brief exposure to Dataspeak. Of course, Data would soon use a contraction in that very same episode!

Timo Saloniemi