Geordi was supposed to be hearing impaired

The fact that we could pretty much bring back people from the dead and fix almost any injury in minutes makes it mind boggling to me that he had to have a visor to be able to see or would have needed special technology to hear. And then the fact that his visor gave him such odd vision instead of normal vision with maybe the option to see different spectrums or thermal.

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JackMythos@reddit

I agree to an extent but curing one set of problems doesn't mean the other set would be cured. Blindness and/or deafness are not a singular disorder but rather the symptom of another issue.

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djnerdyd@reddit

I think at some point they said he could get implants, but he turned them down because he saw more with the visor.

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Efficient-Scene5901@reddit

And didn't Levar Burton get headaches due to the visor? In the storyline, he was probably annoyed with the writers for that one, maybe.

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Yitram@reddit

I swear I read somewhere that the prop squeezed on his head too hard, but I can't provide a source. I'll try to look for it later.

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SatisfactionActive86@reddit

never heard he got headaches, just remarked he “couldn’t see shit” lol

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SinesPi@reddit

This is an issue with disabilities in a lot of fantasy or sci-fi settings. If you're not careful, you cure the problem, and then your hero is just disabled for no reason.

Geordis Visor doesn't bother me too much, since it has advantages over normal eyes, so it doesn't feel like just a worse version of a healthy organ.

It's a hell of a lot better than Professor X's wheelchair.

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Mental-Street6665@reddit

Substantially less cool than the golden headband over his eyes.

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kali-mah@reddit

When I was a kid I bought fake sunglasses that were shiny and gold because it looked like Geordie's "eyes" as I called them.

The irony is they were such trash they nearly blinded me lol

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concolor22@reddit

I genuinely don't know if this is a 💩 post or not.

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kali-mah@reddit

The add on probably. But the deafness is probably true

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mabhatter@reddit

It's amazing how much Star Trek in particular shaped our impressions of how technology should act. TOS gave us sliding doors, tricorders, and flip phones.

TNG gave us devices for the disabled, Bluetooth, iPads, touch screens, voice control... it was 20 years ahead of its time and shaped those 20 years of tech.. how many nerds were out there in the 80s and 90s trying to make these TNG ideas real?

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frankduxvandamme@reddit

But TNG also incorrectly predicted awkward flashlights, spineless chairs, and onesie uniforms.

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SinesPi@reddit

Don't forget the necessity of the highest ranking captain in the fleet having his therapist right next to him on the bridge at all times.

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D1xieDie@reddit

Would be a great advancement

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acebert@reddit

Right? That's great policy for a far flung exploratory mission with minimal direct oversight.

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IKindaPlayEVE@reddit

But all of those things exist.

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Leading_Double_1968@reddit

give it time

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weveyline@reddit

Also AI... they would verbally ask the computer to do the same things that we would give as text prompts to chat gpt, e.g. "Computer, write me a program to do x"

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Perfect-Campaign9551@reddit

I was saying this the other day, we now literally have the Star Trek computer.

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CO420Tech@reddit

They also imagined an AI obstinately refusing to acknowledge the truth because it was hallucinating an incorrect answer based on bad information it took as fact in the Voyager episode Dreadnaught - with that missile that Torres has reprogrammed that refused to believe it was in the Delta quadrant.

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Atherutistgeekzombie@reddit

Also gave us Android

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NiixxJr@reddit

Is this a joke?

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mycenae42@reddit

Uh oh, we pissed him off.

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secondCupOfTheDay@reddit

Maybe. Gene Roddenberry heard a story about a guy confined to a wheelchair that liked star trek in the 60s and that one hour a week in the 60s gave him an escape from that chair. Gene honoured that guy (named George La Forge) by making a character that was blind who could fly the ship on the new show.

If it was r/shittydaystrom it would pass, but people here might be more serious.

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