* 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.

General ( United States ) | General Washington and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette | Lafayette look over the troops at Valley Forge.

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

Soran appears, knocks La Forge unconscious, and launches a trilithium solar probe at the nearby star.

Soran and La Forge are transported away by a Klingon Bird of Prey belonging to the treacherous Duras sisters.

On arrival in the Veridian system, the Duras sisters appear and offer to trade La Forge for Picard.

La Forge is brought back aboard the Enterprise, unaware that his visor is transmitting a signal to the Klingons.

* LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge

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.

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

La Forge is a blind character, and for the television series and previous film had worn a special visor to see.

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.

La Forge is naturally blind so one of his trademarks in the series is wearing a VISOR, which is later replaced by ocular prosthetic implants in the last three films.

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

Burton commented how hard it sometimes was to straight-facedly deliver the Treknobabble used by La Forge in these scenes: " Technobabble brings with it its own challenge ... I ’ m not an engineer, I just played one on TV.

Gene Roddenberry created the character in honour of George La Forge, a quadriplegic fan of the original Star Trek series who died in 1975.

La Forge was born February 16, 2335 in the African Confederation on Earth to Silva La Forge, a Starfleet command track officer and eventual Captain of the USS Hera NCC-62006 ( TNG: " Interface ") and Edward M. La Forge, a Starfleet exozoologist ( TNG: " Interface ").

Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

La Gonâve was once a pirate base.

The works he sent to the 1819 Salon were La Grande Odalisque, Philip V and the Marshal of Berwick, and Roger Freeing Angelica, which were once again attacked as " gothic ".

However, Ravel did criticize Debussy sometimes, particularly regarding his orchestration, and he once said, " If I had the time, I would reorchestrate La mer.

In October 1983, with the collapse of military rule, Menem was elected once again as Governor of La Rioja, and reelected in 1987.

They became good friends, Hamnett later recounting how she once borrowed a jersey and corduroy trousers from Modigliani, then went to La Rotonde and danced in the street all night.

Although the award may only be given to an author once, Romain Gary won it twice, in 1956 for Les racines du ciel and again under the pseudonym Émile Ajar in 1975 for La vie devant soi.

In Italy, whose once vibrant film industry had become moribund by the late 1920s, the first talkie, La Canzone dell ' amore ( The Song of Love ), also came out in October ; within two years, Italian cinema would be enjoying a revival.

After a stagnation in new development in the mid-1990s, La Défense is once again expanding and is now the largest purpose-built business district in Europe.

After a stop in Madeira, complications forced La Normande back to home port, but Verrazzano ’ s ship, La Dauphine, piloted by Antoine de Conflans, departed on January 17, 1524, headed once more for the North American continent.

He was, however, ranked # 10 among Oscar De La Hoya's challengers at the welterweight division after his win over Flores, making him an official world title challenger once again.

Roughly dome-shaped and covered in Iron Age La Tène designs, it was discovered broken in several pieces and partly buried close to a Bronze Age stone circle, inside which it probably once stood.

* La Maetelle — A dying planet whose orbit changes drastically once in a millennium ; the home of Queen Promethium and her daughters in the manga and anime of Leiji Matsumoto.

The traveling camera, or Cámara Viajera ( originally La Película Extranjera, The Foreign Movie ), has taken " Don Francisco " to over 185 countries worldwide, many of them more than once.

Malibu's beaches include Surfrider Beach, Zuma Beach, Malibu State Beach, Topanga State Beach, Point Dume State Beach and Dan Blocker Beach ; its local parks include Malibu Bluffs Park ( formerly Malibu Bluffs State Park ), Trancas Canyon Park, Las Flores Creek Park, and Legacy Park, with neighboring parks Malibu Creek State Park, Leo Carrillo State Beach and Park, Point Mugu State Park, and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, and neighboring state beach Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beach, that was once part of Old Malibu ( before Malibu became a city ), and better known as pristine beaches, El Pescador, La Piedra and El Matador.

La Porte was once the home of the world famous Parsons Horological Institute, founded in the 1890s and still extant as part of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

The hamlet of La Fargeville was once a village, but dissolved its municipal corporation in 1922.

Today, La Pine is beginning to grow once again, but this time as a commuter town to Bend, making Deschutes County one of the fastest growing counties in America.

* Byron De La Beckwith, convicted murderer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, moved to Signal Mountain near the end of his life and once called it " A little slice of heaven " in an interview.

Lyndon Baines Johnson's wife, Lady Bird Johnson, stayed at La Borde House once on a visit to see the area's spring wildflowers.

The trail crossed the La Chute twice ; once about from Lake George, and again at the sawmill, which was about from the fort.

La Bruyère was born in Paris, ( not, as was once thought, at Dourdan ( in today's Essonne département )) in 1645.

La Bruyère's Caractères appeared in 1688, and at once, as Nicolas de Malézieu had predicted, brought him " bien des lecteurs et bien des ennemis " ( many readers and many enemies ).

In his travels, the Colonel was impressed with the La Plata River in Argentina, so he decided to name a portion of his property " La Plata " after the river.

In February 1796 he arrived in Paris and had interviews with De La Croix and Carnot, who were impressed by his energy, sincerity, and ability.

The classical architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, was a demonstration that impressed Henry Adams, who wrote that people " would some day talk about talk about Hunt and Richardson, La Farge and Saint-Gaudens, Burnham and McKim and Stanford White when their politicians and millionaires were quite forgotten.

Richard Basehart's performance impressed Federico Fellini, who subsequently cast him in his 1954 film La Strada.

He gave private lessons in mathematics, and his pupils, including La Rochefoucauld, Simon Lhuilier, Pierre Prévost, were deeply impressed by his personality.

However, Occéan did surprise when, while the MetroStars were playing in the preseason La Manga Cup, Occéan impressed the Metrostars ' competitors Odd Grenland so much that the team immediately offered him a contract.

At the age of 18, then Venezuelan President Raul Leoni saw her performing in the piece " Dona Rosita La Soltera " (" Dona Rosita, the single one "), and was greatly impressed by her talent.

He represented the Denmark under-21 team in the 1992 Summer Olympics hosted at Barcelona, where he impressed, and was soon off to defending Spanish La Liga champions FC Barcelona.

The abundance of wildflowers on the island impressed La Salle and his crew so much that they appropriately named it Isle des Fleures, the Island of Flowers.

Godfrey was impressed, offering La Rosa a job.

The commanding officer is impressed with his skill and takes Richard away as a captive to become a player of Ja ' La dh Jin ( Game of Life ) on his division's team.

In 1955, Cappuccilli auditioned for La Scala in Milan, where the auditioners, deeply impressed, encourage him to enter the Viotti competition.

The new Bishop in the colony, Jean-Baptiste De La Croix de Saint-Vallier, had been impressed with the vocational school that Bourgeoys had established in Montreal and worked with her towards establishing a similar institution in Québec.

His French admirers included Debussy, Massenet, Guilmant and d ' Indy, all of whom were impressed by the 1899 French Première of La Risurrezione di Cristo.

Epstein had been much impressed by Abel Gance's recently completed La Roue, and in Coeur fidèle he sought to apply its techniques of rapid and rhythmic editing as well as the innovative use of close-ups and superimpositions of images.

One of Lanci's most extravagant productions was for a performance of Giovan Battista Cini's La Vedova ( The Widow ), staged in Florence in 1569, with amazingly extravagant costumes by Bernardo Buontalenti, the event was recorded by the mathematician Ignazio Danti who was so impressed by Lanci's theatrical engineering he included a drawing of his periactoi stage.

It was Messiaen ’ s organ suite “ La Nativité du Seigneur ” that so impressed Jackson that he remarked: