Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Geordi's VISOR

[@gbkworf]

On a positive note, Levar had one thing he really like about the visor. No one could see his eyes and was able to take naps during filming breaks and no one would know!

[@joelellis7035]

He must have never been caught, because I can imagine if the writers got wind of his clandestine naps, they would have mercilessly written that in. Like Geordi being at a briefing and is asked question, but doesn't respond. Then the entire senior staff realize that he's snoring. On second thought, maybe Riker snoring at Data's poetry recital in "Schisms" could have been an allusion to Levar's short naps.

[@gbkworf]

@@joelellis7035 I dont think he mentioned it until years after...

[@kellerweskier7214]

you know, playing a role in a deep sense is what made TNG one of the best. So, itd be great for Levar to have his eyes closed when ever on the bridge. after a year of shooting, he should know the layout by then atleast.

[@Beyondthe5thPanel]

@@gbkworf that’s the point though, because if they had found out, they could have done so much with that…..or he would have been in trouble, one of the twon

[@lostmediadetective6603]

high five

[@TomBelknapRoc]

I mean: these are all really awesome and it's a great list. But why not include the fact that the visor was so obviously inspired by a hair clip of the same era? the "banana clip" was all the rage amongst girls in my school, and inevitably, one of us boys would put it across our eyes to be weird. Imagine our surprise when suddenly, Gene Roddenberry is taking the concept literally?!? We were blown away.

[@mjc4942]

I had a sun glass visor as a kid. It looked a lot like his. I used it as part of a punk rock costume.

[@PokePika01]

Inspired? It was literally made from one. I had a behind the scenes book as a kid, and it told a story that detailed how they couldn't come up with a VISOR design they liked, until one day a staff member's daughter's 79 cent plastic hair clip became the inspiratiom for it.

[@TomBelknapRoc]

@@PokePika01 That's what I recall as well. That's the thing: it's the biggest pop culture reference in the show but it's buried by the decades. It its a key element of the story!

[@johnsheetz6639]

Oh my God I just said that. Lol

[@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM]

Between Reading Rainbow and The Next Generation, LeVar Burton is one of the most comforting and pleasant memories from my younger days. 🤗

[@tetravega567]

But you don't have to take MY word for it...

[@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM]

@@tetravega567 I'll SEE YA NEXT TIME! 👋

[@tetravega567]

2 Distinct Reading Rainbow memories were the behind the scenes TNG ep, and Montserrat, the Island Shaped Like a Turtle. Which unfortunately due to volcanic activity in the decades since has reshaped the island.

[@sage5937]

As a blind person myself I have always loved Jordi‘s character because representation right! I found a nice especially when I was to know that there was a character out there who was blind and treated mostly just like everybody else. Even though it’s fiction it gives me hope that maybe one day people won’t be discriminated against because of their disabilities.

[@whosthatguy9]

How did you type this?

[@aylen7062]

@@whosthatguy9 Blind people usually have fingers. lol sorry, I mean there are ways a blind person could use either a phone or a pc, like text to speech software, incluiding the hability to navigate through a phone by one touch for description of what's being selected and another one to do the action, among other functions (here I'm describing Android's pre-installed functionality, which is available in Settings > Accesibility). Also, typing is not the only way to get a text written. Voice recognition is a posibility.

[@zechsblack5891]

@@aylen7062 hell, in like 05 my friend had a web browser interpreter built into his universal braille device. Granted the web pages needed to comply with an accessibility standard otherwise the interpretation of them sucked a little, but even then he could learn his way around them well enough. He could type faster on that thing than I can today and it's basically my job.. Also blind doesn't mean zero vision. Some people just need a zoom widget and to sit very close to the screen or use a handheld device.

[@Jay244]

@@whosthatguy9 Blindness doesn't necessarily mean complete lack of vision. It just means severely imparied vision.

[@eyreaus2736]

​@@whosthatguy9same. There's also the Blind Surfer who does a lot of stuff online. I'm always curious what options people have these days.

[@TheGuardianofAzarath]

As others have said, the reason he switched was most likely an order from Command "Lose the visor or lose your comission", which makes a lot of sense considering the second hack incident resulted in the loss of the federation's flagship.

[@347Jimmy]

I think after the second security breach, he wouldn't need to be asked, let alone told Geordi would never want to be a liability I'd agree that he would have gotten a memo from Starfleet, but his reply was probably "yeah, already taken care of" (at least in my headcanon)

[@vincent_hall]

A pretty good reason to switch. "Headcanon", I like that.

[@bigz4339]

It also caused him constant pain, whereas the ocular implants didn't. Add the fact that the implants are just as effective as his visor, PLUS being able to see in the human visible spectrum is a win-win.

[@thomasmoeller3446]

TOS: One of Kirk's episodic love interests has a "visor" integrated into her entire outfit. It was a sensor net that could give her the ability to "see" everything and be very precise in distances. Don't remember if it was Spock or Bones that originally suspected the ruse but Spock clued Kirk into it.

[@ShakaarGaleed]

Miranda Jones (played by Diana Muldaur in her second appearance in ST) wasn't a love interest for Kirk, as she was in love with Kollos, a Medusan that was so "ugly" (by humanoid standards) that it would drive most insane just to look at one. "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" was the name of the episode.

[@dakotahrickard]

I think the sensor net and the VISOR are parallel developments, not sequential. Miranda Jones had a blind person looking for a better way to collect information about her environment. Geordi LaForge was a blind person looking to regain or replace sight. Ironically, Geordi's dependence on his VISOR much more makes him a good role model and futuristic example of a severely visually impaired person, whereas Dr. Jones' use of a sensor net allows her advantages in terms of independence and perspective. I think about this a lot, because I myself am blind. The ISOR is a solution that comes with a large number of advantages and a pretty equally large list of disadvantages. The sensor net is not as information rich but is a lot simpler to learn to operate and use. The VISOR and ocular implants require brain surgery, a serious concern even in Star Trek time. I'm pretty sure I would be unwilling to achieve sight through that level of intervention and constant pain, especially because we clearly see that the Star Trek universe has pretty significant accessibility built in. In Voyager, we see a blinded Tuvok able aim and operate ship's weaponry. He was not using a VISOR at the time.

[@thomasmoeller3446]

@@ShakaarGaleed Thank you for the love interest correction. Kirk chased anything in a skirt (glad Scotty didn't wear a kilt) so often, it's an honest mistake.

[@ShakaarGaleed]

@@thomasmoeller3446 No problem. But, ironically enough, Scotty DID wear a kilt in that very episode, as part of his formal uniform, during a dinner scene.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Probably an early version of the visor.

[@jasonbean2764]

My Aunt Betty didn't like the VISOR because it blocked the beautiful brown eyes of LeVar Burton. She being a textbook editor, she preferred Reading Rainbow.:)

[@pirateadam3686]

Biggest thing that bugged me about the visor was how *nobody* else had them - at least in TNG, and even then hardly at all. Always wondered why Starfleet didn't come up with a sort of clip-on version for normal eyesight. Would have come in really useful for engineers, security, scouts, etc. Geordi: I'm picking up shapes in the UV range - looks like 4 Klingons Data: I agree. Thermal view shows them clearly. Every other member of the away team: Oh well, you two better take the phaser then because we're all sodding blind!

[@davidsharp9166]

I was surprised it wasn't more common amongst the general population

[@dakotahrickard]

Looking at something in a different electromagnetic spectrum would be very difficult to get used to doing. It's much simpler and more useful to rely on tricorder information at range and on normal vision at combawith distance.

[@pirateadam3686]

@@dakotahrickard Nope, this is bugging me now and I can't let it go... You're right, it would be difficult to get used to, but I think it's definately something they can train into people. But why not a cutdown version like Night Vision or Infra-Red - things we have now?! Why beam into a derelict ship or cave system or whatever with a tiny wrist torch that had all the illumination power of a Hello Kitty nightlight? 400 years into the future and nobody thought to bring a Maglite! There are loads of times in the various series where people have masked their lifesigns through all sorts of technological McGuffins where one guy with a thermal camera would have saved loads of hassle.

[@paulsophocleous2544]

That's what they have tricorders for.

[@jayb8934]

It's not something that a normally sighted person would be able to just clip on and use. As has been explained in the show, a normal person would be overwhelmed by the information and their brain would not be able to interpret it. It's something that Geordi has learned to adapt to over the course of his entire life, and even he still gets headaches from it. Also, it requires brain implants. It's not just something that a normally sighted person can just look through with their eyes like special glasses. It transmits information directly to implants in Geordi's brain. It might not even be possible for someone who also receives information through their optic nerve naturally.

[@SomeTokenGuy]

I think part of why he gave up the vizor was because it was hacked twice (once by the Romulans and in the first movie by Klingons). Probably a security risk.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*seems to be the most likely and plausible reason*

[@jamesspring4610]

True. Plus, in one of the (beta cannon) stories set after Generations, Admiral Hayes (or as Janeway referred to him 'a bit of a windbag') offers Geordi 2 options: resign from Starfleet or have the ocular implants.

[@EphPhaThaINC]

Thus was the reason why they wrote out the Visor after Generations, and going into First Contact because the Romulans and the Duras sisters hacking and compromising the visor

[@williammorton6633]

According to the E Book series(6 books) Georgia was ordered by Admiral Haynes to either undertake surgery/remove the visor. Or be reassigned.

[@Ustra]

I mean if they don't run the thing through a security scan it's their own fault. They have like "level 1" diagnostics for all sorts of stuff on their ship but not his VISOR? Please. Heck of a lot easier to do, too, compared to some of the things done to purely organic crew members. That video game thing Riker once brought or Voyager's mind meld induced sleeper agents come to mind.

[@iamme453]

I love the way the produces/writers came up with acronyms

[@scottmantooth8785]

*in my case everything would have been referred to by the objects function followed by the word "thingy" such as "hand me that compressed phase modulator containment reactivator...thingy*

[@jupamoers]

Can you make a video about Star Trek's inspiration on our modern day technology? Like mobile phones, tablets, Skype, huge LED TVs, stuff like that

[@KatsuRyu]

Neil deGrasse Tyson once tweeted "The full electromagnetic spectrum contains all the colors of the rainbow, as well as unlimited (invisible) colors that extend “above” the Red and “beneath” the Violet, such as seen via the VISOR worn by @StarTrek’s Geordi, played by @LevarBurton. To which LeVar Burton responded "Also... everyone was naked." Brent Spiner had to get a joke in and replied "That explains why you were always laughing at me."

[@party4keeps28]

Watching this video made the Reading Rainbow song pop in my head and get stuck there. I loved that show as a kid.

[@lovehawks2814]

Wait wait wait! There is a topic about how Geordi is not the only person to use a visor in Trek, and bring up an earlier device in Discovery, but no mention of Dr. Miranda Jones? In the episode "Is There no Truth in Beauty", Miranda Jones compensates for her blindness with a mantle of sensors she wears over her dress. This sensor grid gives her functionality akin but not identical to vision, and I had always thought of, if not narrativally but inspirationally, as the precursor to Geordi's visor.

[@brandonparisien2381]

It's almost like the discovery writers haven't seen Star Trek before....the man in charge has admitted to never watching.

[@SSheets]

You beat me to this observation! We’ll done!

[@dakotahrickard]

Honestly, as a person who was born blind, I was given Geordi LaForge as a role model, inspiration, and hope. But I took much more joy in relating to the technology, at least, used by Dr. Jones. No brain surgery required. No constant headaches. No being stared at. No loss of the unique perspective being blind grants me. Geordi is, in a way, more of a role model etc. for the glasses-wearing community. He is as lost without his VISOR as a typical glasses-wearing person is without their glasses. Dr. Jones would lose some capacity without her sensor net, but I doubt she would be as lost as Geordi without his VISOR. Also, yeah, it's sad that we're talking about Discovery and Lower Decks before talking about TOS. "But in a way, I take that as a good thing. Miranda Jones' blindness was a key point in that episode, but she didn't attract the scrutiny LaForge has because of his VISOR. Yeah, his total screentime is orders of magnitude longer, but she can blend in more effectively. Even with ocular implants, Geordi supposedly still looks weird. Given that Star Trek society is more tolerent, both would probably be treated with more respect than the average blind person is today, but humans are humans; first impressions still matter. I believe there would totally be people that would think of Geordi as "the engineer with the weird eye thing" whereas people wouldn't even know Dr. Jones was blind unless she told them.

[@madgelynthompson1665]

The original object that the the props staff used for the visor is a banana clip. I used to wear banana clips in my hair, so I recognized it the first time I saw Levar Burton wearing it. That was a simple, inexpensive and genius move.

[@Craxin01]

The prop masters for Star Trek liked using household items in their props. The nacelles on one of the shuttlecraft miniatures was a pair of disposable razor handles.

[@fredwood1490]

Oddly enough, back in the 1960s, there was a fashion fad called a Visor that was a band that fit much like his visor but was really a kind of sun glasses. They were amazing because they were painted with some sort of polarizing paint that was dark but clear from the inside but looked like a totally opaque, painted surface from the outside. They were cool for teens but scratched up pretty quickly and the fad faded after a couple years.

[@joepatbob]

It is honestly one of the best designed props ever as it looks like it could exist in the real world. It has a story that tells of its limited UX just like real world objects have.

[@hackman669]

Still could not read a paper by it though.

[@CharlieRasch]

On number "8," It was indicated that Starfleet gave LaForge an option, due to him being hacked during Generation, was to get the implants or resign his commision out of Starfleet due to the security risk of the Visor. Note the Visor interface was used against Geordi several times in TNG.

[@okilodolicy]

Star Trek has done so much to open, not just our minds to new possibilities, but technology too. If not for Star Trek, we would not have the tablet or the laptop computer. The tablet made its 1st appearance in the original Star Trek with Kirk. The laptop was in Star Trek TNG in Picard's ready room, both of which became a real life. So it's safe to say Star Trek Paved the way of technology for today

[@travissmith2848]

Cell phone: Didn't directly inspire, but after TOS the guy could point at the screen and go "That's what I've been talking about!"

[@Craxin01]

MP3s too.

[@TheRustyGuitarist]

A good list, really glad you didn't include the banana clip inspiration, as I think that's common knowledge nowadays.

[@edryba4867]

I really liked your photo - in black and white! - of Nichelle Nichols. She was a completely delightful lady, and I miss her. A LOT. And there are plenty of now-existing technologies that were inspired by Star Trek - as far back as the original series. You know those glass doors at the supermarket that slide open very quickly - sideways? Those never existed before Star Trek/TOS. And while the original series was still in production, the shows producers received a letter from a manufacturer of electronic medical monitoring equipment. They were quite interested in the “Red Alert” noise that sounded throughout the Enterprise when Kirk called for such an Alert condition. The producers were happy to send a copy (on audio tape) to the company. Digital audio didn’t exist yet (!), so nobody knew how this company would be able to use the sound. And the end of this story was never widely publicized, so I can’t tell you whether they were able to use the actual sound or not. It was created for Star Trek, along with a number of other sounds (such as what was heard when Bridge personnel pushed a button) on an early synthesizer (most likely a Moog).

[@adamrenfrow]

Star Trek TNG is my favorite show ever.

[@joermnyc]

I believe he’s also said that while the visor could see well beyond human visual range, he would filter out various things so he wouldn’t be overwhelmed.

[@Krahazik]

Well, his brain received everything all at once without any filtering. He just learned to mentally filter it out much like a person might filter out background noise to focus on a specific sound or voice in a noisy environment. Course starting at 5, it would not have been too difficult I think since the information the visor was feeding him was what he learned to see with in the first place. For everyone else with regular human sight, it's all just a jumbled mess but for Jordy, it's his normal. So any reduction would be noticeable to him, much like a regular sighted person suddenly couldn't see in color.

[@ShovelingJedi]

Such a great episode. Ellie and team, Aces.

[@j.rileyindependentproductions]

Incorrect about Polaski's offer of the implants. She NEVER says that she has done surgery for the implants. Plus it is POLASKI not LaForge who says that the implants would have about 20% reduction compared to the VISOR. She then mentions ANOTHER OPTION, regenerating the optic nerve and "... with the help of the replicator fashion normal eyes. You could see like everyone else." She then says she's done it TWICE, not several times. TWO TIMES does not equal SEVERAL. The VISOR was not used to brainwash LaForge. While the Romulans did hack the non-VISOR part of LaForge's vision aid to be able to torture him to then brainwash him, it was just a modification of what they already do and just made it easier because he couldn't resist. He was brainwashed without the VISOR. All the VISOR did was act as a signal receiver for LaForge's already brainwashed brain.

[@WaynesWorldUnlimited]

Over the years, they’ve showed us what Geordies version would look like usually infrared or a lot of green and purple, but the thing I could never understand is if someone’s eyesight was like that. How the hell would you ever be able to read computer screens? ?

[@HermanVonPetri]

Especially since there are plenty of electronics and power lines (and explosive rocks) behind each screen that should further complicate the view through his VISOR which can see such things through walls. The fact that view screens today tend to use highly polarized light might help a little.

[@Craxin01]

You ever play a video game with tons of stuff on screen to focus on, yet you still manage to play after adjusting? You have to learn to focus on what's important and ignore the rest. I'm sure that's what' Geordie is doing.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

With practice. Also Geordie probably upgraded the visor to use it as an engineering tool.

[@Krahazik]

@@Craxin01 Agreed, remember, He started at age 5 and that mess of information was what he learned to see from the start, so that was normal for him. In a way, we get a lot of visual information ourselves with just the limited light spectrum we can see, but we have learned to focus on the bits we need or want and ignore the rest.

[@Craxin01]

@@Krahazik Sometimes to our detriment. Ever trip over something you clearly saw and promptly ignored?

[@JustinWeikel]

400th view! Lol. Ellie is my absolute favorite host. Thank you Trek Culture and congratulations on 250k!

[@Cammi_Rosalie]

When TNG came out, there was a certain hair accessory that was also in style at the time. Like two curved combs that interlocked with each other. Now we all know that many of us young TNG fans, got our own, or found our moms or sisters hair clip and wore it like a visor. You know you did it.

[@Bubu567]

When geordi was wearing his visor, he was virtually blind but had to pretend he could see. When he wasn't wearing his visor, he could finally see, but had to pretend he was blind.

[@thebullet7874]

Well done, as usual. I like the idea of Garcia and Jordie- In the scenes she in with him, it appeared as there was chemistry between them. It would have been a good story line.

[@sanddagger36]

My favorite star trek character of all time.

[@kilroywashere513]

I saw that visitor he wore in the city of Greensboro, North Carolina at a local science museum that had the props, and costumes from all the Star Trek movies and tv shows, and that prop he wore was there too once💁🏻‍♂.

[@davidponseigo8811]

Star Trek has influenced a large portion of our technology that we use every day. Also Miss. Littlechild you are the most beautiful Trekie I have ever seen.

[@Hawkeye26]

Alright, I have to ask...why is there a brief little scene from Symbiosis shown in the small upper right square in the last minute of the video?

[@seraphimvalkyrin4543]

I remember watching something on the Discovery channel a while back about a device that was basically a camera that had a cable that was surgically implanted into the brain to allowed someone to see blurry shapes.

[@slickx82]

Awesome job Ellie!

[@rayfinkle94]

When I was 7 or 8 I went to the Edinburgh star trek convention in 1993 or 94, I can't remember bur when I was there I remember buying a Gordie Laforg visor and when you put it on it made everything look all purple and pink and weird. It was cool. I wore thay thing for weeks it probably why I need glasses now, 😆

[@philly83]

Another wonderful Ellie video

[@donedennison9237]

I saw a Geordi visor at a blind convention, they were actually kinda neat. There is a device(s?) called "insight" that has a lot of similar features and there are some vision enhancing that DO actually show images for mostly blind folks but that tech is in the way early stages. As a visually impaired person, most of these technologies are often hyped so much that I question the usefulness. For instance the insight is bulky, ugly, heavy and doesn't last very long. But all my sighted friends told me about them. I'm waiting for usable, fashionable tech. I'm of a few minds on disability in Trek. Disabled folk are often only seen as valuable if they can perform an extraordinary task. I'd much prefer simple representation... we say "person doing a thing." Though I have liked plot devices used to criticize social issues, it'd just be nice to see a future where acceptance merely exists.

[@OokamiKageGinGetsu]

"The visor was so much more than just a fashion statement." It was a banana clip.

[@ThatBrunetteYouTube]

The picture of Nichelle Nichols made me happy.

I remember some time ago hearing about a vision replacement that was connected to the brain. A signal from a camera was transmitted trough an array of electrodes on the brain. According to the description it gave the user a rather sparse field of white points which would dim when something darker was in front of the camera. So basically a very low resolution picture. Edit: I googled it for a bit and there was a company called Second Sight which went bust and left a bunch of people with unsupported implants.

[@hackman669]

Sounds like neurilink in a few years if Musk fails to come through with his porimise to aid the visually impacted

[@GawainNYC]

I tryed looking it up and got "On August 30, 2022, Second Sight announced the completion of its merger with an innovative, biopharmaceutical company and changed its name to Vivani Medical, Inc. (“Vivani”). "

[@Craxin01]

I remember one of the Star Trek TNG comic books had a kid from an alien species getting a VISOR.

[@frankharr9466]

Thank you. That was interesting.

[@Andrew-zv4fm]

The first time we LaFirge not using the VISOR was in the episode "Future Imperfect."

[@twocvbloke]

He can see through your cards too when playing Poker... :P

[@EinChris75]

There are retina implants available which stimulates the visual nerves like cochlea does for audio.

[@williammorton6633]

As always good fun and informative video. That scene from the Masterpiece Society were La Forge takes his visor off and what would have happened to him if born in a genetically perfect society.

[@Craxin01]

I think the point was he wouldn't have been. They would have seen his congenital blindness and terminated him before being born. He mentioned that the technology of his VISOR was what helped save their lives, even if it ended their society.

[@hackman669]

The society was not ended. Just their bigotry and isolationism. Episide was symbolic for the was disabled people are isolated from society.😄

[@Craxin01]

@@hackman669 No, their society definitely ended. Too many of them left and the ones that remained couldn't sustain it.

[@hackman669]

@@Craxin01 My friend this is what immigration is for. Attract bright highly talented people and kick out the trash. Treat citizens right and you can't go wrong.😁

[@Craxin01]

@@hackman669 Their society was entirely too idealistic to function at any rate.

[@hugehappygrin]

Rhianna didn't make Sledgehammer, it was a cover.

[@stevenewman1393]

🖖😎👍Very nicely well done and very well informatively executed and explained to the point indeed 👌.

[@stevengalloway8052]

Thank you for this. The mysteries of Geordi's visor is solved! 😏

[@stevencorrell6473]

you know I always wondered about Jordi's Visor if it's supposed to be so advanced and all of that why didn't it have a visual mode that could make him see like everyone else instead of some messed up predator vision

[@stevencorrell6473]

More than once he's said in the course of the show he wished sometimes he could see like everyone else so why not have a normal setting then like a scan setting it can switch too or something like that

[@dakotahrickard]

The thing about the VISOR in this sense is that it's not so much a replacement for vision but a completely other sense that simply relies on the detection of electromagnetic radiation. You see with your eyes, but you see with your mind as well. What I mean is that your eyes give more information to your brain than you consciously analyze. The VISOR may skip some of this preprocessing, because wiring interfaces into all of those nerve points would be difficult. Even supposing the VISOR was wired up the same as eyes, allowing for the brain's unconscious preprocessing to occur, the VISOR isn't binocular. It doesn't have fovea or other features. It may be possible to create, for someone who originally had sight, something that would serve as a prosthetic replacement. But Geordi himself would not benefit from this as much as he would benefit from the full VISOR experience. In short, the VISOR may not be capable of replicating normal vision" Even supposing it could, Geordi would not have the training and experience to use that vision appropriately. I, myself, am quite blind. I was born so. I have light perception. If I was offered the chance to see normally, I might reject the offer; sight is complicated, almost overwhelmingly so. Suppose I were given the choice between learning to use normal vision or learning to use Geordi's version of sight? The effort involved in learning to see like Geordi would not be prohibitively greater than the effort of learning to see normally. But learning to see like Geordi may prohibit ever learning to see normally, simply because the experiences may be too divergent. I'd rather have the opportunity to see in ways people generally can't because it would grant me more opportunities than I'd have with normal vision. In a sense, everyone with normal vision is blind compared to Geordi. Realistically though, I might just choose to use the sensor net shown in the original series.

[@stevencorrell6473]

@@dakotahrickard in generations it gave off annice clear normal picture what I wonder is why it took so long

[@kylenoon1393]

I always sort of understood it as he switched to the implants after the visor was compromised AGAIN and this time lead to the destruction of his ship, his home, and nearly got everyone he loved killed. Couple this with the Dominion Cold War he would have made the switch out of security

[@TheMAZZTer]

So it's my understanding that if one is blind since birth the brain does not develop the ability to process sight. I think I read an article online once about a surgical procedure that was seveloped to correct sight in a specific type of blindness that would be present since birth. The people who successfully underwent this procedure could not understand what they were seeing, and some even ended up killing themselves because being able to see but not understanding anything caused them so much stress. So I think correcting blindness will not be as easy as depicted in Star Trek. It's not just the eyes, but the brain itself as well that would need adjustment.

[@oogaboogaman13]

Can you do a Top 10 child actor performances?

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

I’ve been watching Star Trek so long I forgot he even had it on

[@dyslexictreki7087]

This is giving me some ideas for my channel. Geordi was a big influence on how I saw my learning disability, and the tools I use to accommodate it. I've done a couple Geordi focused videos, but only mentioned the fact that the VISR hurt. I think I might want to explore that point some. I think I understand why, and I don't really think its because he sees more. Its at least not all of why.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Agreed, being implants in his brain there are lots of possible points that could be that cause of issues.

[@dyslexictreki7087]

@@SoManyRandomRamblings I think it's information overload. I want to explore why he would accept the pain for the VISOR.

[@steviegreen2673]

In the TNG episode The Enemy it is shown that the visor can detect Neutrinos! Real neutrino detectors are immense and research on them would be greatly aided if a practical detector the size of the visor was available.

[@blackicee8836]

First i thought that was the pice of 'Air intake fillter from car' 😆

[@tnvpm]

If knowing the shield modulation was so important, why post it on every damn panel on the hallways?

[@JeremyWS]

I have relatively good vision, but even with my relatively good vision if I had the money I would volunteer to have my vision improved by technology --- I would do it. I would love to see infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths, and I would do this in a heartbeat if given the opportunity. I don't care what it would cost me.

[@terryjwood]

Lois Lane: What color are my panties? Geordi: PINK!

[@natecunha2795]

Surprised they didn't bring up Diana Muldaur's character in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" who wore the equivalent of an early visor as a sensor array attached to her dress.

[@DudeWheresMyJo-Car]

I appreciate that the guy modeling the JORDI visor is wearing black and yellow

[@347Jimmy]

I guess we all knew that the prop was made from a fashionable late 80s hairpiece

[@nemesis1588]

Honestly the destruction of the D was totally unnecessary and a potentially massive plot hole. Don't get me wrong, I love the E, but the Galaxy was done dirty. After those events in the series you would think that anytime Geordi was in contact with potential aggressors or being held captive that his visor would get a thorough inspection upon his return to make sure it hadn't been tampered with. And if it is a problem of time, well he should have a spare visor in his quarters that he can use while the primary set is being inspected. people keep spare contacts/glasses right now so why wouldn't he have a spare visor?

[@jesseheard]

As much as I love Data, Geordi was my favorite character in tng.

[@travissmith2848]

For another pre-TOS VISOR type thing see TOS "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" and Miranda Jones' apparently jeweled sensor web wrap.

[@brandonparisien2381]

Actually, a precursor to the VISOR was shown on TOS, making Geordie the 2nd person in canon to have one. Disco re-writing canon because no one involved has watched previous series.

[@colinleat8309]

Good job Geordi, ya killed the Enterprise! 🤣 I love LaForge, I always felt bad for Levar having to wear the VISOR though. Ironic that the device to give sight to the sightless, all but blinded the actors. Live long and Prosper 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦

[@canaan5337]

When I was a kid I still knew he was LeVar Burton the guy from reading rainbow even with the visor.

[@banditt18]

wish i still had my replica visor i'd ware it all the time

[@SkyDarmos]

A visor should have not only enhanced vision, but also given him an almost 360 degree vision. Also, imagine the information overload that comes from not being able to focus your eyes on a particular object, but see everything around you in a strange fish eye vision.

[@CaptRobertApril]

BONUS THING: Levar Burton nixed the idea of ditching the VISOR in favor of Dr Pulaski's procedure after getting a bit of backlash from several disabled fans, who saw Geordi as their bit of representation on the show, so the idea was quickly dropped. Until the damn thing got hacked twice, the Enterprise-D ended up splattered across Veridian III, and everyone started looking stupid for not fixing a glaring security issue.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

I hoped will see a real-life VISOR in the near future.

[@joeldfisher]

as a disabled person, seeing Soren put down Geordi in the cinema made me laugh. Anything he said to him was surely nothing Geordi hadn't heard before and were just attempts to goad him. A pathetic villain with cheap moves

[@damenwhelan3236]

Genetic modification is out... Bionics is in!

[@archentity]

I'm pretty sure Geordi could've disabled or even removed the subspace radio from the VISOR, that is if the VISOR didn't already have the ability to manually disable the subspace radio as a feature.

[@neilhaas]

When Geordi was abducted & conditioned by Romulans in the mind's eye he was on the Romulan ship. When La Forge turned into an alien in Identity Crisis what a scary episode.

[@sasamichan]

Well 1st on the Time Line was created long after TNG had stopped airing. Now if you can find a visor in use by some one else on TOS, DS9 or VOY then you have a real fun fact. Any one good as spotting background details? Also I did see it on display at a museum once. They would not allow me to put it on. I asked. So if you ever see some one on a TV show just trying it on that doesn't happen.

[@baystated]

Didn't everyone who knew about visor hack die at the end of Generations? Was their expanded material produced that showed something like a after-Generations diagnostic of the visor that exposed the hack? We the audience know how the Duras Sisters knew how to bypass the Enterprise shields, but did Star Fleet ever figure it out?

[@HermanVonPetri]

Considering that Geordi is an excellent engineer, and often runs diagnostics on his own VISOR, he probably figured it out himself.

[@PhantomObserver]

Remember that Geordi had been kidnapped by Soran and the Duras, and that incident would have been in the after-action report written as part of the investigation into the loss of the 1701-D. Subsequent investigation would have disclosed the previous Romulan “visor hack” incident, leading to the top brass “suggesting” to Picard and Geordi that the visor was a legitimate security risk.

[@stevenkarmazenuk2540]

Considering in the previous movie Geordi was taken down by Sorin about his visor making him a freak, I think that's the most likely reason. That's what it's always felt like for me.

[@qdllc]

All the pre-TNG “visors” violate canon. Remember the “sensor net” Spock’s friend had to use to be able to see (the woman who would later play Dr. Pulaski). Too many writers don’t think before making stuff up.

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

So does any one else think, just like the question "why dont they use video security cameras in the future" that the question "why dont the shields automatically change modulation every so often" is a valid question? Like, they obviously can be remodulated like the phasers and torpedos, and its even been done manually while fighting the borg on a couple of occasions, and since that remodulation is accomplised with a few taps of LCARS, which, in turn, sends an electrical signal through the eps grid to activate a mechanical part of the shield generator, you would think its would simply be a matter of programming or allowing the computer to send those same signals at random frequent intervals. And with such an easy fix to such a HUGE tactical weakness.... it makes you wonder if it wasnt just for the plot. lol

[@TheTransporter007]

Some humans can see into shallow IR. You can test it by pointing your television remote at yourself in a dark room and some of us can see the flashing. Obviously it has to be an infrared not a Bluetooth remote.

[@michaelespinoza3726]

Geordi is the GOAT

[@shadowling1478]

what 90's kid didn;t run into something with a headband over their eyes trying to be jordie

[@scottb7539]

Counselor Troy used to barrow the visor to hold her hair back 😁

[@Sir_Gugharde_Wuglis]

Theoretically Geordi could set the visor to see within the visible light spectrum if he only set the sensors to see within that limited spectrum, but I don’t know how his brain would receive that information from his visor, so like I said it’s theoretically possible he could see what we see, in addition to the rest of the EM spectrum.

[@aggaming1766]

Another TYDK: the original visor was made from a hair accessory.

[@MrZillas]

7:30 Visor or not, he didn't see that coming.

[@purplealice]

Some humans can see UV and IR. I can see UV a little bit (the technical term is "tetrachromat")

[@sr6061]

It was forsake at Viacom in Chicago. I couldn't afford it

[@vernfreeman]

and of course it didn't help that “Geordi's VISOR was improvised on the first day of shooting using chiefly an automotive air filter and a hair band.” After the first day, a more permanent prop was created and used going forward.

[@kevinhower7579]

"Why would he wear these??!" "Who would make these for him??!" ~Peter Griffin

[@kght222]

0:10 not really starfleet medical science but federation medical science. they aren't the same thing. there are other fleets in the federation.

[@clarktransport1312]

I read somewhere that the early version of the visor was made from a banana comb.

[@eliothamilton2630]

I think it’s funny that they only ever used the “visual link” (the only way I could think to call it) once.

[@jasonworlock5113]

How about a list of episodes with plots that made no sense. My vote is Star Trek: TOS episode 'The Mark of Gideon'. The people of Gideon can not die of disease or injury, so they kidnap Kirk to see if a disease he was recovering from could be transmitted. Why because the population was so great that thousands pressed in against each other and you could hardly breathe. Yet they made a one-to-one replica of sections of the USS Enterprise that were empty. If space was such a premium then why did they waste it by building this replica?

[@bobastu]

Geordi's vision through the visor, without his cognitive interface, would not appear as clean and clear as it did in Generations. It would appear in multiple spectrums, simultaneously, like when the Romulans and Enterprise were viewing the feed. In addition, how did Geordi see the display icons on LCARS when the heat generated by the panels would be evident? Those icons are based on the human range of vision, which Geordi admitted on multiple occasions he could not see with his visor. The Generations sub plot of the Klingons using his visor was badly written because, with the touch of a button, the frequency would be on an oscillating frequency in order to fight the Borg. If it's common sense to anyone watching the only way a photon torpedo could breach the shields was to have it match the shields, a lot of useless damage happened. TNG movies and the show do not age as well as TOS era.