During the alliance with the Federation during the Dominion War, Romulan ale was briefly legalized, even though it was later outlawed again after the war, as stated by Geordi LaForge in Star Trek: Nemesis.

This was done with the reluctant help of Geordi LaForge who voiced concerns about how this could cause B-4 to be nothing more than an exact duplicate of Data.

Jackson was also considered for the role of Geordi LaForge in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, a role which ultimately went to LeVar Burton.

More recently, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the crew is sometimes seen playing five-card stud, often an officer's game hosted by Commander William Riker and usually entered by Data ( as part of his efforts to become more human ), Worf, Geordi LaForge, Dr Beverley Crusher, Deanna Troi and occasionally by other crewmembers.

* A holodeck simulation of Professor Moriarty, played by actor Daniel Davis, appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " Elementary, Dear Data " and " Ship in a Bottle ", accidentally achieving sentience when Geordi LaForge asks the holodeck to create an opponent able to defeat Data ( rather than Sherlock Holmes ).

* LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge

The Enterprise escapes to a nearby nebula, with Geordi LaForge and Wesley Crusher adapting a technique suggested by Shelby to modify the deflector dish to fire a massive energy discharge capable of destroying the Borg cube.

* Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge ( Chief Engineer ) Chief Engineer from the ship's acceptance into Starfleet service.

and Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members LeVar Burton ( Geordi LaForge ) and Wil Wheaton ( Wesley Crusher ).

Throughout the series, Burton was equipped with Geordi La Forge's trademark VISOR, which he found extremely unpleasant to wear: " It ’ s pretty much a living hell ... 85 to 90 per cent of my vision is taken away when the VISOR goes on ...

Upon learning this, Picard decided he wanted Geordi on his next command (" TNG ": " The Next Phase ") which ended up being the Enterprise-D where Geordi was assigned to him as a helmsman.

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film ), Geordi ( now a commander ) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

Elementary, Dear Data contains a glaring logic error when the holographic Moriarty hands Data a parchment drawing of the Starship Enterprise, which does not dematerialize when Geordi carries it off the holodeck.

* In the scene where Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge scans the planet, he describes the surface temperature as-291 ° C, being below absolute zero (− 273. 15 ° C ), which is theoretically impossible.

The changes start to become more pronounced, and Worf's confusion leads to the Enterprise being damaged by a Cardassian attack which results in the death of Geordi La Forge.

Geordi expresses his frustration in experiencing a Holmes mystery to which Data already knows the outcome, and explains the fun is in the mystery itself.

Sela's first appearance was covered in shadows in the episode " The Mind's Eye ", in which she supervised the brainwashing of the recently captured Geordi La Forge.

# Lt. Geordi analyses the foreign node entity which is controlling activity in parts of the Enterprise in this Star Trek episode.

Geordi and Data also discover particle emissions in one of the cargo bays, creating an expanding subspace rift which threatens to breach the hull.

The three workmen are there, again dismantling a plasma conduit ( which Geordi recognizes as one that was recently replaced with the new warp core ).

Previous to LeVar Burton being cast as Geordi La Forge, Tim Russ was a serious contender for the role and was almost picked.

Asked about his favorite scenes, Burton answered that he especially liked holodeck adventures: " The Holmes and Watson episodes for Data and Geordi, the Robin Hood episode, you know, those were a lot of fun for us.

Barclay appears in the First Person Shooter video game Star Trek: Elite Force II, where he fills in as Chief Engineer for Geordi La Forge, when La Forge is away on another assignment.

Enterprise-E Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, for example, attended Zefram Cochrane High School.

That same year, Snipes was also considered for the role of Geordi La Forge in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to LeVar Burton.

Geordi realizes that when he asked the computer to create the program he had asked for an adversary who could defeat Data, not Sherlock Holmes ; as a result, the computer gave the Holodeck character Professor Moriarty the knowledge and sentience needed to challenge Data.

Russ originally screen-tested for the role of Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation before gaining the role of Tuvok.

The goal of this secret alliance is to destroy Picard and therefore Starfleet's only defense against the Borg but, despite his conditioning, Kirk is able to resist commands to kill Worf, Data, and Geordi La Forge, all of whom are attacked by him during his search for Picard.

Geordi and Data attempt to activate the new warp drive, but they run into problems and the Enterprise is delayed for several hours.

LeVar Burton plays Geordi La Forge, the ship's chief engineer.

With encouragement from Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, however, Barclay redeems himself and helps to uncover the cause of a critical multi-system failure on the Enterprise-D in time to avert the ship's destruction.

Commander Geordi La Forge tells Picard and Rozhenko that the Holodeck program may not run that long as the Holodeck and several of the ship's other systems were adversely effected by exposure to Plasmonic wave radiation generated by the atmospheric dissipation.

* Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who was born blind and uses optical implants combined with a removable unit called a VISOR, to see.

The android Data, who recently installed a chip that enables emotions, helps engineer Geordi La Forge search the station.

As Cochrane, Riker, and engineer Geordi La Forge prepare to activate the warp drive on the Phoenix, Picard confronts the Borg Queen and discovers she has grafted human skin onto Data, giving him an array of new sensations.

Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge is a main character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and its feature films, played by LeVar Burton.

In the series, we learn that Geordi was born blind and wears a VISOR ( Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement ), an arc-shaped prosthetic attached at the temples that provides him with vision.

Interfacing directly with his brain, the device enables him to " see " much of the electromagnetic spectrum – radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, but not normal light perception, though it does allow Geordi to see the visible light section of the EM spectrum.

In 2372, Geordi is transferred to the new Sovereign class starship Enterprise-E.

Geordi ultimately designs the " Jellyfish ", the advanced spacecraft that is piloted by Ambassador Spock in the film.

The only VISOR seen on screen was used by Geordi La Forge, who was blind from birth.

Seeing all the overlapping and different wavelengths was highly confusing to the Captain, prompting him to ask Geordi how he was able to differentiate between them all.

Twice in the series, Geordi refused to be granted natural vision, first by Commander Riker who had been given extraordinary amounts of power by Q and later by Doctor Katherine Pulaski.

Geordi refused the gift of natural eyesight in the first instance because it would have come at the cost of Riker's humanity.

LeVar Burton, who played the character of Geordi La Forge, disliked the VISOR prop because it restricted his peripheral vision – albeit less than its prototypes – and the constant pressure of the prop's arms on his temples caused headaches.

In 2367, the Romulans brainwashed Commander Geordi La Forge of the USS Enterprise in an attempt to incite a Federation-Klingon war, but the plan was exposed and foiled.

In fact, in the episode " Realm of Fear ", Geordi La Forge states that there have been no more than 2-3 transporter accidents in the preceding 10 years.

His positronic brain becomes deactivated, and then repaired and reactivated by Geordi on several occasions.