What do you think about Geordi LaForge?

[Jayson]

He is my 3rd favorite character on the sohw behind Picard and Data. I also think Burton is the third best acotr behind Stewart and Spiner.

I like how casual La Forge was and I thought he made technobabble sound kind of fun. I also enjoyed his friendship with Data.

Jason

 

[RAMA]

I always liked him. Burton is a handsome guy, so I was surprised that wrote him as incompetent with women later in the series. One of the refreshing things about STNG was that crewman like Riker and Geordi were up for almost any kind of new experience. Also liked that he developed slightly in the movies and he was almsot never written as the "blind guy".

RAMA

 

[BillJ]

I always thought Geordi was a robo-sexual. Other than that he's just kinda there.

 

[inflatabledalek]

A nice likeable character who didn't get much to do but when he did it tended to be a surprisingly good episode. Something of a shame he faded more and more into the background to the point by the end of the series he was mainly there to sprout technobabble and give Data someone to talk to and that was about it. By the time you get to Nemesis he might as well have stayed in bed.

 

[Ln X]

I dunno, Geordi was another one of those 'just there on the ship' sort of TNG character. There was that really good episode where he mutated into that shiny, with veins, blue species. But I thought the writers poured most of their creative energies on Picard, Data and Worf, who are without doubt the three best TNG characters, and with Worf the best one of them all.

I dunno, there is something about Geordi, and it's very hard to call to mind more than one really good episode he featured in.

 

[RaymondJames]

Geordi as far as personality and such was a great character. He was pretty much the Uhura for TNG, kind, caring, friendly ect. However, he most likley got the shortest stick as far as his use on the show. Geordi was almost always in main Engineering or at a Engineering station on the Bridge. On away teams, he was hardly used. His best epiodes were when he ends up a hostage. A highlight for himwas in Season one Arsenal of Freedom when he's in command but even then, his command is challenged.

 

[indolover]

Should have had more episode time. And the ones he did star in were not that bad (Booby Trap, The Mind's Eye).

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Geordi was more of a "little moments made big" sort of character. He wasn't as big and flashy as Picard, Data or Worf but when he had a moment he made it work. I loved his performance in Naked Now where he laments at how he never saw on a sunset and the moment in Insurrection where he actually sees his first sunset and tears well up in those big brown eyes... Burton made that shit work!

 

[Caesar753]

I always liked Geordi and kind of related to him. I also have fond memories of LeVar from Reading Rainbow. :-P

 

[Anji]

I like Geordi, I always have. He's such a nice guy. No arrogance, so open-minded. And you can't help but believe that a lot of that positivity comes from LeVar himself.

Too bad he was doing so much Reading Rainbow that he couldn't have a bigger part.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

He was socially awkward around women, sure, but he seemed like Don Juan next to Reg Barclay - the two made a good pairing as a Big Bang spectrum of geekiness. He did have a bad habit of getting kidnapped and having his prosthetics subverted 'though.

 

[Forbin]

A guy who can't even get laid on the holodeck reminds me too much of my teenage years.

 

[Destructor]

I always thought Geordi was a robo-sexual. Other than that he's just kinda there.

I have to agree. I like Geordi, but he totally should have been Trek's first gay character.

 

[Seven of Five]

I like Geordi - he's right behind Data, Worf and Picard as my favourite TNG character. He was a very likeable guy who came across as down to earth, so I always like him. I liked in season three when he got Booby Trap and The Enemy as back to back episodes. Both were good for him I think.

 

[Forbin]

I always thought it was a shame they stuck that damn visor on him. For one thing, it hobbles an actor to take his eyes away (conversely, it also gives him a greater challenge to try to convey emotion). But mainly because Lavar is indeed a handsome fella, with quite striking eyes. It was a shame t cover them up.

 

[Neutral Zone]

Very likeable character, but I feel that he could've been developed a bit more. Given more responsibility in someway.

Out of character I would say Burton is a good actor and given the chance would make an even better director than he is at present.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Very likeable character, but I feel that he could've been developed a bit more. Given more responsibility in someway.

Well, he does get to command the USS Challenger eventually - albeit in a different series and timeline. I don't know if he's also married to Leah Brahms in that one, and, as he's still in Starfleet, he probably doesn't have time to write novels. In the corrected timeline, he might well still be stuck in Engineering, pining for what might have been.

 

[Dr. Crusher]

I feel that Geordi was one of the characters who wound up becoming too predictable and 2-dimensional, which is ironic given his regular compatriot, Data, gained dimensions as the show progressed. I don't think that this had anything to do with Burton's acting ability, though--it has everything to do with how LaForge was written into the show.

I really enjoyed watching Geordi's character. He has some very funny, often overlooked one-liners that still give me a laugh when I see them today. I am not sure Data's character would have been as interesting without Geordi.

Probably the moment that struck me the most in the series was when Geordi speaks to Data at the end of the second part of "Chain of Command." Geordi clearly is affected by how Data treated him while under Lore's control, but, even though he clearly hadn't entirely gotten past that, he still stops Data from destroying the emotion chip--I thought that was pretty remarkable.

 

[Alrik]

I have always liked Geordi. Burton played him really well and made his character fun to watch.

I am not sure Data's character would have been as interesting without Geordi.

I agree.

......at the end of the second part of "Chain of Command."....

*cough* Descent *cough*

 

[Dr. Crusher]

......at the end of the second part of "Chain of Command."....

*cough* Descent *cough* [/QUOTE]

Would you believe that I have always mixed up those episodes?

My profound apologies....(exits in embarrassment )