Geordi La Forge

**Geordi La Forge** Is a male Human who was a noted Starfleet officer and engineer who served in the 24th century. He was most famous for serving as chief engineer aboard the USS *Enterprise*-D and USS *Enterprise*-E.

## History

Geordi La Forge, the son of Edward M. and Silva La Forge, was born in the African Confederation, Earth on February 16, 2335. He was born completely blind. The blindness was caused by an "incurable optical nerve defect."

In 2340, at the age of five, La Forge was briefly caught in a fire, and unable to escape, due to his blindness. He was rescued by his father, and shortly after was given his first VISOR from Dr. Lenske. Geordi met the designer of his visor, Doctor George Tarmud, in 2370 during the Universal TechnoFair that was held on the *Enterprise*-D. After receiving his VISOR, Geordi was taught to suppress the pain by a Vulcan Healer.

Around this time, Geordi visited Cambridge University on a family outing.

In 2343, Geordi was given his first pet, a Circassian cat named Alexi.

In his early years, Geordi traveled around a lot with his parents, as they were both Starfleet officers. In his formative years he saw many fascinating sights, including the remnants of the Achorii civilization. By the age of 12, in 2347, Geordi was living with his mother aboard a Starfleet science ship.

Also in his early years, La Forge had a mentor, Nassa Coleridge.

### Starfleet Academy(2353-2357)

In 2353, Geordi decided to follow in his parents' footsteps and entered Starfleet Academy.

Between February 16, 2353 and February 16, 2354, Geordi was taught an archaeology course by his former mentor, Nassa Coleridge.

In his final year at the Academy, Geordi spent five-months rewriting a dissertation for Dr. Zorka, after Zorka initially rejected it. Geordi struggled through the class and eventually passed.

### Early Starfleet Career

#### USS Victory(2357-2360)

Ensign La Forge graduated from the Academy in 2357 and was assigned as conn officer aboard the USS *Victory* under the command of Captain Zimbata.

In 2363 (Stardate 40164.7), the *Victory* was conducting a survey of Tarchannen III, to determine the whereabouts of 49 missing Starfleet personnel assigned to the planet. An away team, commanded by Lieutenant Susanna Leijten, failed to locate the personnel, and the *Victory* left the planet.

During a stopover at Starbase 324, the *Victory* underwent an inspection by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, then the head of Starfleet Tactical's Long-range Threat Assessment and Response Division. While being shuttled back to the starbase by Ensign La Forge, Picard made an offhand comment about a minor power inefficiency in the shuttle. La Forge took it upon himself to spend the entire night refitting the shuttle's fusion initiators, finally not only eliminating the inefficiency but obtaining an efficiency rating slightly *above* that rated for the shuttle.

#### USS Hood(2360-2364)

Shortly after, Geordi transferred to the USS *Hood*, under the command of Captain Robert DeSoto. During his year aboard the *Hood*, he became close friends with first officer William T. Riker.

### Aboard the *Enterprise*-D

In 2364, La Forge transferred to the *Enterprise*-D along with Commander Riker, to serve as conn officer under Captain Jean-Luc Picard. He spent his first year aboard the *Enterprise* in the position of navigator (at the rank of Lieutenant J.G.), before transferring to engineering and becoming the ship's new chief engineer with the rank of full Lieutenant.

In late 2365, the *Enterprise* responded to a distress call from the Pakled freighter, *Mondor*. La Forge beamed aboard to assist them with repairs, when he was taken hostage and held for ransom, until he upgraded their systems and provided them with hand phasers and photon torpedoes. La Forge managed to engineer his escape by bluffing the slow-witted Pakleds, with help from the *Enterprise*.

In early 2369 Geordi, Worf and Ro Laren took the shuttlecraft *Goddard* to receive Starfleet briefings. On their return journey the shuttle was forced to drop out of warp due to solar flare activity and crash landed on the planet Riat. On the planet the solar flare activity also interfered with Geordi's VISOR from time to time. The shuttle damaged beyond immediate repair and the planet inhospitably cold the away team sought shelter in a nearby Dracon monastery. Unfortunately the order of monks in the monastery had become violent and cannibalistic due to radiation from the solar flares causing a mutation in an algae in their water supply. The team were forced to fight the monks off several times before another shuttle from the *Enterprise* arrived to rescue them.

### Aboard the *Enterprise*-E

Following the destruction of the *Enterprise*-D at Veridian III, La Forge was assigned as chief engineer of the *Sovereign*-class *Enterprise*-E. By 2373 La Forge had replaced his VISOR with full spectrum synthetic eyes.

When the *Enterprise* was transported back to the year 2063, La Forge was instrumental in helping to repair the Borg inflicted damage to Earth's first warp ship, *Phoenix*, and in convincing Zefram Cochrane to complete his historic flight.

Early in 2374, Geordi accompanied Captain Picard and Ro Laren on a secret mission into Cardassian territory to destroy an artificial wormhole being built by the Dominion.

In 2375, La Forge took advantage of the Ba'ku planet's rejuvenating properties. Having never seen a rainbow or sunset, he watched the sun *rise* with Picard, on the surface.

In 2377 he commanded the Piper team mission to infiltrate the nadion-pulse cannon firebase located on the summit of Mount Ranakar on Tezwa.

Later that year, after Riker accepted command of the USS *Titan*, La Forge was offered the position of first officer of that ship. La Forge declined the offer.

In 2380 When Command of the Enterprise-E was transfered to Riker and First Officer Worf was promoted as well and reassigned La Forge finally accepted the position of First Officer, but still maintaining a pressence in Engineering helping the young Taurik in his new role.