I offered you friendship

[Makarov]

So, I'm guilty, okay? But not of what you think! Of something much worse. I'm guilty of... reaching out to you. Of hoping we could connect. I'm guilty of a terrible crime, Doctor. I offered you friendship

Anyone else not convinced by Geordie's rant in Galaxy's Child? He's kind of changing the subject off the fact that she found him romancing a holodeck version of her.

Plus he was definitely not just offering her friendship. I mean he even broke out the civilian clothes, dimmed lights and smooth jazz. All of a sudden he's accusing her of being cold but really he was being overly friendly.

I love this episode and the possible future where he marries Leah Brahms but I think that she would be forever angry at him after that.

 

[Captain Rob]

If they got married. Just think of the arguments they have. Every time Geordi would storm out of their quaters. Leah would say "Where are you going? Off to the holodeck to play with your girlfriend?"

 

[Melakon]

Well of course they had to make Geordi the good guy here. But it was just a load of crap he was selling her.

 

[Makarov]

If they got married. Just think of the arguments they have. Every time Geordi would storm out of their quaters. Leah would say "Where are you going? Off to the holodeck to play with your girlfriend?"

I just realized that married couples could have holodeck versions of their younger selves for recreational use... whoa

 

[2takesfrakes]

Hollywood has this "device" that STAR TREK has always deployed and it's in TNG, too, where it doesn't matter what idea is being forwarded, as much as it matters who is expressing it. So, for example, Here's LaForge BUSTED and instead of coming clean, he offers up this bullshit line of defense. BUT ... but ... because it is coming from someone we're meant to know and like, and said so sincerely, that we - as an audience - are just meant to buy it, too.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Geordi should have told the real Leah right away that he simulated her on the holodeck. If he'd come clean about it - just explained to her that he needed someone to talk to, so they could work on the engineering problem together, I think the real Leah would have bought it. Provided Geordi deleted the holo-Leah as well.

Oh, and since Leah was married in Booby Trap/Galaxy's Child (to someone other than Geordi), that means Geordi as of "All Good Things" is a homewrecker. Innit?

 

[jimbotron]

So I take it that Leah witnessed a replay of the entire simulation. Geordi comes in and catches her listening to the tail end, the only part that could be construed as risque.

Seems like a bit of a stretch for Leah to be that outraged, considering she saw everything with context. Geordi apparently smoothed it all out offscreen, but what more was there to add since she saw the whole thing?

 

[Noname Given]

Hollywood has this "device" that STAR TREK has always deployed and it's in TNG, too, where it doesn't matter what idea is being forwarded, as much as it matters who is expressing it. So, for example, Here's LaForge BUSTED and instead of coming clean, he offers up this bullshit line of defense. BUT ... but ... because it is coming from someone we're meant to know and like, and said so sincerely, that we - as an audience - are just meant to buy it, too.

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Yep, at BEST he wanted a 'friends with benefits' arrangement. I still remember laughing out loud when he delivered the line as it was a 100% crock. She and He KNEW what he was offering when she walked into the 'soft lights and music' routine in his quarters.

There's also the line in "Hollow Pursuits" where Geordi (in reference to his Holodeck experiences said, "I fell in Love in there once..." - a clear reference to the situation in "Booby Trap".

In the end, she felt he was a weird stalker; and that's EXACTLY how he came across in the majority of the episode. If anything, Picard should have been informed and Geordi sent to Counselor Troi for therapy

 

[Makarov]

Picard does have a strange look on his face when Geordi first finds out she's coming. I think he knew something was up.

 

[jimbotron]

One moment I liked in Booby Trap was when Geordi introduced the hologram to Picard. Picard gives no reaction at all. I liked it, as if there was an internal dialogue "I'm not acknowledging a hologram". It's like being polite to an automated voice on the phone, there's no point.

The jab from Guinan about his "other visor" was gold. Sorry Geordi, you can't have nice things. And if you do, it's an alternate universe that gets undone by the end of the episode.

 

[HIjol]

Yeah, I think the load of crap combined with the violation icky ness she must have felt really did a number...imagine, however, if he did not get caught out (I know, I know, no episode...ha ha )...private moments in the 'deck...could there be filters to prevent using real people/living people...hmmm...another kettle of Gagh...

 

[Trekker4747]

Oh, and since Leah was married in Booby Trap/Galaxy's Child (to someone other than Geordi), that means Geordi as of "All Good Things" is a homewrecker. Innit?

Or, you know, their marriage dissolved/fell apart naturally or through other means (like death) and then Geordi and Leah hooked up.

 

[Timo]

Or then all three are living happily ever after. Or four, for all we know.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Kevman7987]

Oh, and since Leah was married in Booby Trap/Galaxy's Child (to someone other than Geordi), that means Geordi as of "All Good Things" is a homewrecker. Innit?

Or, you know, their marriage dissolved/fell apart naturally or through other means (like death) and then Geordi and Leah hooked up.

I read a Lost Years novel* that explained that marriage contracts can be made for a set period of time and renewed. Kirk was married to Adm. Lori Ciana** for a period of time while the Enterprise was being refit and they decided not to renew it when it ran out.

Maybe that was the writers' way of making that canon.

*I do not count novels as part of canon.

** She was the female figure that died in the transporter in TMP.

 

[Timo]

...You need scifi in order to have a divorce?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Makarov]

Marriage with a time limit? Weird.

I think they should add a scene into Galaxy's Child where Barclay walks into the holodeck just as Geordi and Leah are arguing just so he can get the upper hand on Geordi for once.

Riker, Geordi, and Barclay should all be in group counseling for holodeck obsession

 

[JarodRussell]

Marriage with a time limit? Weird.

If you look at the statistics, it would make sense. But I guess divorce lawyers would have something against that.

 

[GeorgeKirk]

Marriage with a time limit? Weird.

It was one of Gene's ideas. He really wanted to live in a happy fun sexytime future where he could bang whoever he wanted and nobody would judge him for it.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I think Geordi's line about offering friendship was more a way to transform Leah's indifferent overreaction to guilt than an honest statement. Because Geordi's interaction with holo-Leah might be a little uncomfortable and creepy, but he didn't do anything wrong and she immediately accused him of using it or sex without considering his side.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I read a Lost Years novel* that explained that marriage contracts can be made for a set period of time and renewed. Kirk was married to Adm. Lori Ciana** for a period of time while the Enterprise was being refit and they decided not to renew it when it ran out.

And they say romance is dead...