Star Trek: The Next Generation
Summary
Lt . Commander Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) almost had a very different backstory onStar Trek : The Next Generation . Despite being one of the most famous thespian at the beginning ofTNG’srun , LeVar Burton ’s character Geordi did n’t always have much to do duringTNGseason 1.Geordi ’s ultimate persona on the USS Enterprise - D was ill-defined until he remove over the office of Chief Engineer in TNGseason 2 . Still , not much about Geordi ’s life before the Enterprise was ever reveal duringTNG , and that might be because the writers abandoned the original estimation for his character .
Although Geordi grew and recrudesce as a character asStar Trek : The Next Generationprogressed , he never scram as much of his backstory filled in as many of the other eccentric . None of Geordi ’s household members were introduced untilTNGseason 7 , episode 3 , " Interface , " in which his mother was killed on a mission . Outside of hisfriendship with the android Lt . Commander Data(Brent Spiner ) , his obvious engineering talent , and his sorry luck with romance , Geordi was one of the least - developedTNGcharacters . In theStar Trekoral history , The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Yearsby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , TNGexecutive producer Jeri Taylor spoke about the original architectural plan for the character of Geordi La Forge . Read her quote below :
We want to make Geordi an noncitizen . He was work to find that his father was not who he thought he was , and his mother had an almost Rosemary ’s Baby – kind of thing and had been impregnated by an alien . As a result , Geordi was actually half foreign and now , at his present long time , his hoi polloi were do back to get him . I thought that would have return Geordi ’s character a good deal of expansion .
The writers onStar Trek : Deep Space Ninewould finally give a similar backstory to Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) . Sisko ’s mother had been possessed by a Prophet from the Bajoran wormhole to ensure Benjamin Sisko ’s birth , as he was destined to become the Emissary of the Prophets .
Star Trek : The Next Generation ikon Geordi La Forge has become a fabled member of the franchise and has feature in some all - time neat episode .
Geordi La Forge Remains One Of Star Trek’s Most Underdeveloped Main Characters
Star Trek: Picard season 3 helped by introducing Geordi’s daughters.
Along with the other principal crowd members of the USS Enterprise - D , Geordi La Forge returned inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 . Now a Starfleet Commodore , Geordi has two daughters , Sidney ( Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut ) and Alandra ( Mica Burton ) , and La Forgeworks as the Head Curator at the Starfleet Museum on Athan Prime . When Admiral Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) initially approaches Commodore La Forge for help , Geordi , at first , is hostile toward his former Captain and the USS Titan - A. Geordi has moved on from the dangerous nature of life on the Enterprise and does not wish to put his daughters ' lives in peril .
It ’s Sidney and Alandra who avail their father realize that help his former friends is the right thing to do . Geordi gains the fibre trait of being a devoted and caring father , but his married woman is never revealed . Picardseason 3 also bring out that La Forge has spend the last twenty old age rebuilding the USS Enterprise - D , and he clearly remains a gifted applied scientist . Geordi also reconnects with his best friend , Data , which piddle for a beautiful scene but does n’t leave much new information about Geordi as a lineament . Hopefully , Geordi La Forge will return in a futureStar Trekproject , and more will be unveil about the spirit of the former Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise - D.
Star Trek : The Next GenerationandStar Trek : Picardare available to stream on Paramount+ .
Source : The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 yr : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and Unauthorized Oral chronicle of Star Trekby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
