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In the One With Ashley Judd, they disable Data because he can't be addicted to the game. However, they don't seem to have a problem addicting Geordi. Why would that be? The man's blind and his processing of visual information has to be vastly different than the rest of the crew.
I missed the beginning of the episode, so there was perhaps an explanation that I missed, but, hell, what else are we going to talk about?
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I haven't seen the episode in a long time, I can't even remember if La Forge was even on the ship at the time.
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Yup. We never actually SEE him use the game, but he got zapped along with everyone else. I'm guessing that the alien redhead thought this up in advance, and allowed the game to zap him perhaps through his VISOR.
Counting this episode, that's THREE times bad guys have used his VISOR to do bad things to our heroes - the others being Brainwashed Assassin Geordi, and Clueless Webcam Geordi (both available as deluxe figures from convenientplotdevices.com). Luckily though, his losing streak with the thing fizzles out after he gets captured, heartbroken and loses the damn ship.
Anyone ever wonder why we never saw anyone else with a VISOR in all of modern Trek?
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Perhaps Geordi's was substantially of his own design? I mean, he is an engineer, and while all the other blind kids were probably choosing the flattering and nigh-invisible models, he was down in the basement, wondering if there was a way he could wire his to pick up shortwave radio. He would not be the only engineer to prize a certain kind of utility over aesthetics (or, indeed, over his own comfort).
And while it isn't modern, there's that lady from TOS who looks suspiciously like Dr. Pulaski who had the sensors of her VISOR-like device woven into the fabric of her clothes. (Which is probably a better sf prognostication.) So I would guess that people who weren't really into leet hardware in the 24th century chose similar options.
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Well, we also know that other options were available to him early in the series (wasn't it Pulaski who said so?), but he preferred to stick with the VISOR.
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Yeah, Pulaski offered him Optical Implants... something he decided to do after Troi drove the Enterprise-D into a planet thanks to him.
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Were they the same thing Pulaski offered him though?
I doubt it- Geordi's new eyes work just like his old VISOR did- he found Cochrane in the woods easily enough with them.
I always thought the "optical implants" this was more like Nog's synthetic leg than a tricorder.
Speaking of which, I always thought it stupid when Geordi relied on a tricorder at all- you'd think a small attachment to his visor would be better than anything handheld, then displayed on a small screen, translated via his visor into visual information and processed by his brain....though Geordi is by far the least inventive engineer in all of Trekdom.
Except for Torres- she also sucks pretty badly compared with Scotty or O'Brien- or even Rom!
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Yeah, but Torres was the fastest worker, fixing the ship no matter the damage by the next week without a starbase. Although she also got the various warp improvements working... She just didn't make a big thing about it
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