I am thinking lots of people are thinking that is what he was doing. Probably based on that "When your touching the engines your touching me" line.
When did Geordi find time for a family?
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I am thinking lots of people are thinking that is what he was doing. Probably based on that "When your touching the engines your touching me" line.
I'm not. Nor do I see that being said in this particular thread, so it's a rather baseless assumption.
My only annoyance is that Geordi acts petulant that Leah isn't like his interactions either in the holodeck or in his imaginings. I don't think it is appropriate for him to be in a romantic relationship with her. It has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with realistic expectations.
Agree to disagree, etc. People need to move on instead of going "oh, they make such a cute couple." That's not how relationships work!
Although it's not screen canon, Leah Brahms features prominently in the ongoing Star Trek Resurgence comic book (tie in to the upcoming video game) and there's no mention of her husband at all despite the character in a situation where he should at least be mentioned. It may not have anything to do with Picard but...
As someone with a real life genetic disability (moderate hearing loss) that can be passed on, I'm very surprised that his children escaping it isn't so much as mentioned, and I always thought TNG should've tackled the real life struggles of disabled people trying to date head on, instead of the clumsy episodes that literally now have reddit posters calling TNG Geordi an 'incel'.
In regards to his children escaping his genetic blindness, it's glaring it's not mentioned since every other New Trek (Prodigy, SNW) has some major storyline reminding us how harsh the Fed is against genetic tinkering (and although not genetic engineering related, they're harsh enough that they let Riker's son die rather than lift the synth ban). Trying to date and get married while you have a disability that can be passed on is a real struggle, I know from my own real life.
As someone with a real life genetic disability (moderate hearing loss) that can be passed on, I'm very surprised that his children escaping it isn't so much as mentioned, and I always thought TNG should've tackled the real life struggles of disabled people trying to date head on, instead of the clumsy episodes that literally now have reddit posters calling TNG Geordi an 'incel'.
In regards to his children escaping his genetic blindness, it's glaring it's not mentioned since every other New Trek (Prodigy, SNW) has some major storyline reminding us how harsh the Fed is against genetic tinkering (and although not genetic engineering related, they're harsh enough that they let Riker's son die rather than lift the synth ban). Trying to date and get married while you have a disability that can be passed on is a real struggle, I know from my own real life.
But why is it not appropriate? She seemed like she might be nice on the holodeck and even though the hologram isn't real it is suppose to be built somewhat on her personality. He is single and he thinks she is single. Granted this is here something that is a nitpick. A quick look at her profile would have saved lots of drama by simply finding out she was married. They ignored that logic for sake of plot.
When she comes aboard they work or argue. He tries to impress her. Asks her to diner. Granted the mood lighting was to much but when she figures out he likes her in that way she shoots him down. He gets rejected which of course happens a lot when dating and then he moves on from it. If she doesn't go on the holodeck the rest of trip I am guessing goes fairly routine. Well except the part of dealing with the space baby hooked to the ship.
Dating isn't a exact science. People fumble and make mistakes but mature people might be upset to be rejected but they just deal with it and move on. Which seems to be what he was doing.
And then he bitches and wines about it to Guinan. Like I said, petulant. And drama for the sake of the plot.
After whining about it. And if he has indeed "moved on" then why the hell should he be back with her now!?
I think he sulked a little and was upset but that seems normal. He is human and not a robot. He got rejected. It hurts. Guinan told him the flat out truth about seeing what you wanted to see and he seemed to be helped by her opinion.
As for getting with her now I assumed that since they were friendly at the end of the episode they must have stayed friends or friendly for years after. Probably never expecting to fall in love but things can change in all those years between the last time we saw them and the current present day of the series.
As for getting with her now I assumed that since they were friendly at the end of the episode they must have stayed friends or friendly for years after. Probably never expecting to fall in love but things can change in all those years between the last time we saw them and the current present day of the series.
Fair points on the closer to realism, though still highly implausible. Thematically though it reads completely wrong. "That girl that once rejected you? Just keep at it, cowboy and she'll come around."
Not a healthy look.
He didn't try that much. Most of their talk at first is them yelling at each other over work conflict. He flirts a little like mentioning her favorite food and then asks her to dinner. She comes and sort of figures out he likes her and leaves. He sulks for maybe 30 minutes or a hour. Guinan points out how he was wrong to read more into things because the hologram was just a hologram and he sees her point. Next thing they are ready to go back to work but then the space baby has attached itself to the ship so all routine work stuff gets shunted to side so they can deal with the crisis.
Th ensign suggest she go look at the holodeck program for tech reasons and then she gets upset thinking some sex things is going in. He rushes in and tries to explain. She refuses to listen and then he looses his cool and gets angry. But then I think she realizes the sex thing wasn't really a sex thing and both stop being angry. They then have a drink and share a laugh at the misunderstandings. Basically becoming friends or friendly at least.
Which in no way should end up in marriage.
Well it doesn't have to. I am sure they didn't get married just because they had a wacky misunderstanding once on the Enterprise. I am sure it was do them getting to know each other for years and years and decades as the friendship eventually blossomed into something romantic.
Save it for the fan fiction board.
I think it would make for a good story. I am sure they will not go that deep on Picard and most of it will be implied if they do it. Having seen them sort of together does give them advantage over a new character who you go to invent.
I disagree. Because we don't, as you note, have the opportunity to see this relationship grow and develop. We just see misunderstanding to more amicable to oh, now we're married. It's a poor storytelling and reflects poorly on fantasy relationships.
Whose to say what Geordi's children should look like.
My cousin married a light skinned black man and their child had darker skin than his father.
I have another cousin who married a man from India. They have two children. Their daughter looks like her mom; blonde blue eyed Scandinavian. While their son looks exactly like his father.
Isn't he the director of the Fleet Museum, not UP?
I was speaking more broadly about his career path not this specific season, but good point.
I believe essentially that in All Good Things, Q was messing with Picard, not the others. So, assuming he had to create a believable future for Picard, he might have extracted the information from what Picard knew about Geordi. That, combined with Q's somewhat limited imagination when it comes to human relations may have resulted in this 'timeline'
I don't know. I think the time gap is pretty big to make it known that he and her must have lived enough life in that gap to establish a relationship that has grown and changed. Lots of it would be carried on performance as well. Good acting can show us that these two have been in love for a decade or decades and maybe toss in a line like "I never would have guessed all those years ago when you were yelling at me on the holodeck that we would one day have two wonderful girls and a lifetime of memories."
He may only have taken that job relatively recently. The background is that he worked on the Romulan evacuation fleet at Utopia Planitia, which works for me.
It's still possible he was Captain of the USS Challenger for a period in the prime universe, and that would have allowed him to raise a family too.
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