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Topic	Eight Board-Eighters Rank Star Trek Characters
Anagram 01/21/20 5:45:36 PM #130:	- Okay Tier - Okay Tier is for characters who are okay. Not great, but they have genuine reasons to be on the show, are written mostly well, and are pretty cool guys who dont afraid of anything. 25. Geordi LaForge Is it weird if you make a hologram of an attractive woman, program it to think youre the hottest man alive, and have sex with it while pretending its the real person? Asking for a friend. Star Trek has a well-deserved reputation for technobabble, but TOS isnt guilty of it at all. The most technical that happens in TOS is Scotty complaining about energy or wiring. The true criminal here is Geordi LaForge, in more ways than one. We can all make fun of Geordi for the creepy sex stuff, and yeah, he deserves it. Theres the time he makes a hologram of a real person and falls in love with it, and when the real woman finds out, she apparently doesnt file a complaint at HR? I would think the best-case scenario for Geordi at that point is being transferred to a less prestigious ship, but she forgives him pretty quickly, and even marries him in an alternate timeline. Then theres the time he has to watch a video journal of a dead woman, falls in love with her, learns shes not dead, and creeps on her. But I want to move past all that and talk about the most interesting aspect of Geordi, which is the acting. It wasnt until recently (about a year ago) that I read an article by LeVar Burton where he discussed what playing Geordi was like, and he was like I had to spend a lot of time getting down how to show emotion while wearing a thing on my face, and I was like man, that does sound hard. He talked about how he put everything into giving Geordi a constantly enthusiastic, happy outlook and personality, and that although you dont learn a lot about Geordi through his backstory (of which he has almost none), you learn a lot through the acting. Reading that gave me a huge amount of respect for Burton and Geordi, at least during the show era. Movie Geordi is basically just an extra. Anyway, the technical aspects of Geordis character are sort of more interesting than the character himself, whos just the engineer. Non-Geordi episodes just have him drop in, say SHIELDS ARE AT 30% CAPTAIN, and disappear. Geordi/Data episodes have him as the supporting character for the immensely more interesting Data, where hes there to explain in human terms whatever new nugget of humanity Data has discovered, and invariably does a bad job of it. Geordi-specific episodes show him to be the most awkward person on the ship after Barclay. Aside from the romance episodes, what does Geordi even have? The episode where he turns into a shadow monster? Fun fact, theres a commentary for the season 7 episode about Geordis mother where the writer describes the pitch. Someone had the idea for an episode about Geordis mother, and we were like sigh Are we running so low on ideas that this is where were at? Geordis family? Poor Geordi. By that point, wed had episodes about the families of Picard, Riker, Crusher, Data, Worf, and even Yar, but it was Geordi that was a step too far. And really, they were right. Season 7 is clearly where they just ran out of ideas in general, at least until the final episode. --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005 <cite>Anagram posted [p:933287713] in Eight Boar... [t:78315622]...</cite> <quote>- Okay Tier - Okay Tier is for characters who are okay. Not great, but they have genuine reasons to be on the show, are written mostly well, and are pretty cool guys who dont afraid of anything. 25. Geordi LaForge Is it weird if you make a hologram of an attractive woman, program it to think youre the hottest man alive, and have sex with it while pretending its the real person? Asking for a friend. Star Trek has a well-deserved reputation for technobabble, but TOS isnt guilty of it at all. The most technical that happens in TOS is Scotty complaining about energy or wiring. The true criminal here is Geordi LaForge, in more ways than one. We can all make fun of Geordi for the creepy sex stuff, and yeah, he deserves it. Theres the time he makes a hologram of a real person and falls in love with it, and when the real woman finds out, she apparently doesnt file a complaint at HR? I would think the best-case scenario for Geordi at that point is being transferred to a less prestigious ship, but she forgives him pretty quickly, and even marries him in an alternate timeline. Then theres the time he has to watch a video journal of a dead woman, falls in love with her, learns shes not dead, and creeps on her. But I want to move past all that and talk about the most interesting aspect of Geordi, which is the acting. It wasnt until recently (about a year ago) that I read an article by LeVar Burton where he discussed what playing Geordi was like, and he was like I had to spend a lot of time getting down how to show emotion while wearing a thing on my face, and I was like man, that does sound hard. He talked about how he put everything into giving Geordi a constantly enthusiastic, happy outlook and personality, and that although you dont learn a lot about Geordi through his backstory (of which he has almost none), you learn a lot through the acting. Reading that gave me a huge amount of respect for Burton and Geordi, at least during the show era. Movie Geordi is basically just an extra. Anyway, the technical aspects of Geordis character are sort of more interesting than the character himself, whos just the engineer. Non-Geordi episodes just have him drop in, say SHIELDS ARE AT 30% CAPTAIN, and disappear. Geordi/Data episodes have him as the supporting character for the immensely more interesting Data, where hes there to explain in human terms whatever new nugget of humanity Data has discovered, and invariably does a bad job of it. Geordi-specific episodes show him to be the most awkward person on the ship after Barclay. Aside from the romance episodes, what does Geordi even have? The episode where he turns into a shadow monster? Fun fact, theres a commentary for the season 7 episode about Geordis mother where the writer describes the pitch. Someone had the idea for an episode about Geordis mother, and we were like sigh Are we running so low on ideas that this is where were at? Geordis family? Poor Geordi. By that point, wed had episodes about the families of Picard, Riker, Crusher, Data, Worf, and even Yar, but it was Geordi that was a step too far. And really, they were right. Season 7 is clearly where they just ran out of ideas in general, at least until the final episode. --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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