Geordi La Forge

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

*never knew what a friend was, until I met Geordi. He spoke to me as though I were Human. He treated me no differently from anyone else. He accepted me for what I am. And that – I have learned – is friendship.*"

– **Data**, 2368 ("The Next Phase")

**Geordi La Forge** was a Human male  Starfleet officer who originally was the helmsman of the USS *Enterprise*-D during 2364, with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. He was promoted to lieutenant and later lieutenant commanderand became the chief engineer of the *Enterprise*-D and later USS *Enterprise*-E, both under Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "Where No One Has Gone Before", "The Child", "Evolution", "Booby Trap"; *Star Trek: First Contact*)

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Early Starfleet career
* 3 Aboard the Starships Enterprise
	+ 3.1 The Enterprise-D
		- 3.1.1 Conn Officer
		- 3.1.2 Chief Engineer
	+ 3.2 The Enterprise-E
* 4 Later life
* 5 VISOR
* 6 Engineering interests, talents, and specialties
* 7 Legendary forces
* 8 Personal life
* 9 Personal relationships
	+ 9.1 Friendships
	+ 9.2 Romance
		- 9.2.1 Christy Henshaw
		- 9.2.2 Leah Brahms (hologram)
		- 9.2.3 Aquiel Uhnari
* 10 Alternate realities and timelines
* 11 Holograms
* 12 Chronology
* 13 Appendices
	+ 13.1 Appearances
	+ 13.2 Background information
	+ 13.3 Apocrypha
	+ 13.4 External links

## Early life

Geordi La Forge was born on February 16, 2335 in Mogadishu, Somalia to parents Captain Silva La Forge and noted exozoologistCommander Edward M. La Forge. Due to a birth defect, he was born blind. As an adult, he stood 170 centimeters (appr. 5'7") tall and was right-handed. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "The Masterpiece Society", "Cause and Effect", "Identity Crisis", "Ship in a Bottle")

*"Cause and Effect" features La Forge's medical record, establishing his date and place of birth as the African Confederation. The remastered version of the episode narrowed his place of birth to Mogadishu.*

Sometime prior to 2340, Geordi was trapped alone in a burning building; he later remembered this as one of the most frightening moments of his life. (TNG: "Hero Worship")

When he was five years old, Geordi received his first VISOR, which allowed him to see (although not the same way the average Human does) for the first time in his life. (TNG: "Hero Worship") At age eight, Geordi was brought his first pet, a Circassian cat, and he remembered his excitement for years to come. (TNG: "Violations")

Young Geordi spent time with both his parents as a child, sometimes separately. For a time, Geordi lived with his father, Edward, while Edward studied invertebrates in the Modean system. On other occasions, Geordi was away from his father, on outpostsnear the Romulan Neutral Zone with his mother, Silva. (TNG: "Imaginary Friend")

Geordi went to Zefram Cochrane High School sometime prior to 2353. (*Star Trek: First Contact*)

Early Starfleet career

e attended Starfleet Academy from 2353 to 2357, where he excelled at engineering and idolized Zefram Cochrane. (*Star Trek: First Contact*) Among his reading during the Academy, La Forge read about the USS *Stargazer*. (TNG: "The Battle")

*A scene in the script of "Coming of Age" but cut from the final episode would have revealed that La Forge was scared to death the whole time during his entrance exam, though he considered that good for a person because it kept the adrenaline going.*

La Forge graduated with a Starfleet specialty in antimatter power and dilithium regulators. His first deep-space assignment was as an ensign aboard the USS *Victory* under Captain Zimbata. (TNG: "Elementary, Dear Data") In 2362, La Forge participated in the investigation of the disappearance of the Federation colony on Tarchannen III. (TNG: "Identity Crisis")

La Forge later transferred to the USS *Hood*, where he served under Captain Robert DeSoto. On the *Hood,* La Forge knew William T. Riker, but only professionally. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint") Riker knew La Forge the longest of all of their shipmates aboard the *Enterprise*, and the two developed a close friendship during their later years together at that assignment. (TNG: "The Next Phase")

At one point in his career as a young officer, La Forge was assigned to pilot Jean-Luc Picard on an inspection tour. En route to their destination, Picard made an off-hand remark about the shuttle's engine efficiency not being what it should be. In response to this, La Forge stayed up all night refitting the shuttle's fusion initiators. When Picard discovered what La Forge had done the following morning, he knew immediately that he wanted La Forge with him on his next command. (TNG: "The Next Phase")

*La Forge's first meeting with Picard is referenced – although not seen directly – in the prequel novel* The Buried Age*, detailing Picard's activities between the Battle of Maxia and receiving command of the* Enterprise*-D. This scene also reveals that Picard was responsible for La Forge being transferred from the* Victory *to the* Hood*, noting that La Forge deserved a promotion but there were currently no opportunities for advancement on the* Victory *where the* Hood *had more positions available.*

Aboard the Starships *Enterprise*

The *Enterprise*-D

#### Conn Officer

In 2364, he was named conn officer on the USS *Enterprise*-D under Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")

While investigating the deaths of the SS *Tsiolkovsky* crew, La Forge contracted a variant of polywater intoxication, causing him to lose his inhibitions. Dr. Beverly Crusher used La Forge to test her vaccines and was able to develop a cure. (TNG: "The Naked Now")

The first test of his ability as a starship commander came during an encounter with an advanced planetary defense system in orbit around the planet Minos. With the senior officers' away teams entrenched at the planet's surface, La Forge gave the order to send the *Enterprise*'s saucer section to safety and then returned to Minos with the stardrive section to work out a way of evacuating the away teams. While battling a cloaked drone in orbit, he devised a strategy to lure the opponent into the planet's atmosphere, thus revealing its location. In this tense situation, he proved that he had the ability to successfully lead a skeleton crew to victory. (TNG: "The Arsenal of Freedom")

His special vision was impressively demonstrated during an away mission to the drifting freighter *Batris*. The VISOR data was directly transmitted to the *Enterprise*-D's main bridge viewscreen via his visual acuity transmitter, allowing the bridge crew to gain an insight into Geordi's view of the world and to follow the progress of the mission until the datalink failed. (TNG: "Heart of Glory")

Chief Engineer

In 2365, La Forge was promoted to full lieutenant. He transferred from the command division to the operations division and was named chief engineer. Over the course of the next several years, it became evident that this transfer had been a wise decision. His technical and analytical abilities, his versatility, and his cooperative leadership style were very well suited to the requirements of a senior engineering officer aboard a major starship. Just one year later, in 2366, he was promoted to lieutenant commander. (TNG: "The Child", "Hollow Pursuits", "Evolution")

An especially demanding situation arose in 2365, after the ship's main computer had been infected by an Iconian computer virus by way of the log files of the USS *Yamato*. Those files were the only useful item that remained of this *Galaxy*-class starship after a catastrophic loss of antimatter containment had caused it to explode with the loss of all hands. La Forge was eventually able to disprove suspicions of a general design flaw in *Galaxy*-class starships which had arisen when the alien program caused more and more shipboard systems to fail. Working with Lieutenant Commander Data, whose positronic brain had been infected as well, he found the solution to the problem in time to save the *Enterprise*-D from seemingly inevitable destruction. (TNG: "Contagion")

Geordi learned about one particular disadvantage of following in the footsteps of Starfleet's legendary engineers when members of a race known as the Pakled took him hostage, hoping to gain technological knowledge. Although injured, he successfully devised an escape method without further bloodshed. (TNG: "Samaritan Snare")

La Forge used a hologram of Dr. Leah Brahms, the engineer who designed the *Galaxy*-class, after the *Enterprise* was ensnared in a Menthar booby trap. He and the hologram Brahms worked extremely well together and figured out an escape route for the *Enterprise*. In the process, Geordi became strongly attracted to Brahms. (TNG: "Booby Trap", "Galaxy's Child"

Later that year, Geordi was trapped on a desolate planet with a Romulan named Bochra. He and Bochra at first tried to kill each other, but soon resolved their differences and worked together to survive. (TNG: "The Enemy")

In 2367, he met the real Leah Brahms. La Forge was ecstatic at the chance to meet her, even if on a solely professional level, but he was in for a surprise. Whereas the hologram Geordi had assembled was kind, creative, and warm, the real Brahms was rude and, much to Geordi's chagrin, married. They worked together to solve a problem on board, but Dr. Brahms found out about the holoprogram and became infuriated. They were eventually able to laugh about it, but a romantic future for the two seemed unlikely. (TNG: "Galaxy's Child")

He met an old friend named Susanna Leijten whom he had served with aboard the *Victory*. She told La Forge that several of their crewmates, with whom they had formed an Away team to Tarchannen III, had disappeared. Shortly afterward Leijten started to transform into an alien being. La Forge too became infected, but before he was transformed into an alien, he discovered that shadow aliens on the planet had implanted a parasite into the away team members that turned them into the aliens. This was how they reproduced. La Forge was rescued and given an antidote that stopped the transformation. (TNG: "Identity Crisis")

At the end of 2367, La Forge was captured by the Romulans, who brainwashed him into assassinating the Klingon Governor Vagh. Klingon ambassador Kell worked with the Romulans from the inside. By tracing Kell's signal to La Forge's visor, they were able to stop the assassination attempt. (TNG: "The Mind's Eye")

When the *Enterprise* was hit by a quantum filament that caused massive power failure throughout the ship, La Forge and Dr. Crusher were trapped in a cargo bay with dangerous explosive materials. They daringly decompressed the bay while they were still in it, to jettison the materials into space. (TNG: "Disaster")

He worked with the scientists on Penthara IV after the planet's mantle was damaged by an asteroid hit. His first plan failed, but a new one more risky than the first worked and the planet was saved. (TNG: "A Matter of Time")

Later that year, the *Enterprise* discovered an injured Borg drone in the Argolis Cluster. La Forge helped to repair the drone and in the process made friends with him, naming him "Hugh". Starfleet initially planned to use Hugh to infect the Borg Collective, but Hugh's emotions, including those he felt towards his friend Geordi, prevented this plan. La Forge asked Hugh to remain onboard, but he declined in order to ensure the safety of the *Enterprise*. (TNG: "I Borg")

After answering a distress call from a Romulan ship, La Forge and Ro Laren disappeared during a transporter cycle. They could see each other and everything around them, but no one was aware of them, and they were presumed dead. They discovered that the Romulan distress call was related to an accident with their cloaking device, and decloaked themselves by creating enough chroniton fields to force Data to use Anyon particles to decontaminate the fields, which also rematerialized La Forge and Ro. (TNG: "The Next Phase")

In 2369, La Forge, along with the rest of the *Enterprise* principal crew, traveled back to 19th century Earth to save Data. In the process, Geordi encountered Samuel Clemens. (TNG: "Time's Arrow", "Time's Arrow, Part II")

One of Geordi's dreams came true later that year, when the *Enterprise* answered a distress call sent out by the USS *Jenolan*. He discovered that the ship's transporters were configured in a strange manner, and was able to rematerialize someone. That someone turned out to be Montgomery Scott, the Chief Engineer from the original USS *Enterprise*. Scott had preserved himself in the transporter buffer for 75 years. Geordi was initially overjoyed to be working with such a legend, but Scotty's constant nitpicking about 24th century technology led Geordi to snap at him. This plunged Scott into a brief depression. Geordi eventually consoled him, pointing out that age does not dictate usefulness, and the two worked together to save the *Enterprise*. (TNG: "Relics")

He was abducted by solanogen-based lifeforms, who experimented on him. (TNG: "Schisms")

Later that year, he became romantically involved with fellow Starfleet officer Aquiel Uhnari, who was suspected of murdering her coworker. He eventually proved that the murderer was a coalescent organism. (TNG: "Aquiel")

In 2370, he was captured by Lore, who was leading a group of rogue Borg, who had left the collective due to the individuality Hugh displayed, which Geordi helped to foster, in attacks against the Federation. Lore brainwashed Data into attempting to turn La Forge into a cybernetic organism. This plot was narrowly foiled. (TNG: "Descent, Part II")

Later that year Geordi's mother, Silva, was listed as missing in action during a mission. Upon further investigation, Geordi found that her image was being used by aliens to lure him into helping them. (TNG: "Interface")

He helped to prove that the Hekarans Serova and Rabal were correctly asserting that warp drive was damaging the fabric of space, which was instrumental in creating the warp 5 "speed limit". (TNG: "Force of Nature")

In 2371, while on an away team investigating the Amargosa observatory with Lieutenant Commander Data, Geordi was knocked unconscious by Tolian Soran. Soran then kidnapped Geordi and escaped aboard a Klingon Bird-of-Prey. The Klingons traded him for Captain Picard. They put a spy device in Geordi's VISOR and used it to obtain the *Enterprise*'s shield frequency. The device was removed after the destruction of the Klingon ship, but unfortunately the damage suffered from the Klingons caused a coolant leak which he was unable to fix. This meant a warp core breach was imminent and also meant the inevitable destruction of the *Enterprise*. (*Star Trek Generations*)

The *Enterprise*-E

After the destruction of the *Enterprise*-D, he transferred to the new *Sovereign*-class USS *Enterprise*-E in 2372. He and the *Enterprise* then spent a year on a shakedown cruise

Some time between 2371 and 2373, he received ocular implantscapable of even more impressive functions than his VISOR. This advanced technology no longer required an external apparatus to see.

In 2373, the Borg attacked the Federation colony on Ivor Prime. The *Enterprise* was told to patrol the neutral zone; Geordi argued that the *Enterprise*-E was the most advanced ship in the fleet, and should therefore be at the front lines. After Geordi made his case, Captain Picard decided to head to the battle. After destroying the Borg cube, the *Enterprise* followed the Borg sphere that had left the cube into a temporal vortex it had opened in Earth's atmosphere.

Geordi, along with the entire crew of the *Enterprise*-E, was transported to 2063. He and an engineering team beamed down to help repair the *Phoenix*, and La Forge got to work with his hero, Zefram Cochrane. He told Cochrane about his attendance at a high school named after him and a large marble statue erected in his honor. This rattled Cochrane, but he pulled together and made first contact as planned. The *Enterprise* then returned to the 24th century. (*Star Trek: First Contact*)

In 2375, while investigating an incident involving Data on the Ba'ku planet, La Forge was able to temporarily see naturally through real eyes as a result of the metaphasic radiation emanating from the planet's rings. Despite this apparent gift, he, along with the rest of the senior staff, still assisted Captain Picard in working against the Federation's plans to exploit the planet, insisting that he would be unable to look at another sunrise when he was fully aware of the price that the Ba'ku would have to pay for his restored vision; in doing so, he was able to convince a reluctant Picard to accept the crew's help in saving the Ba'ku. (*Star Trek: Insurrection*)

In 2379, Geordi took part in the *Enterprise*'s mission to Romulus. After a fierce battle with the *Scimitar*, he helped his best friend Data in his task of self-sacrifice to save the *Enterprise* crew. (*Star Trek Nemesis*)

Later life

As of 2399, retired Admiral Picard still considered La Forge a loyal colleague who would not hesitate to join him on a mission if asked. (PIC: "Maps and Legends")

*In the* Star Trek: Picard - Countdown, Issue 1 *prequel comic book, La Forge, with the rank of full commander, is featured as overseeing efforts at the Utopia Planitia Ship Yard to construct a fleet to evacuate Romulan space in 2385. Reference to him by name in PIC: "Maps and Legends" suggests that he was not among the fatalities of the Attack on Mars later that year.*

VISOR

* **Main article:** VISOR

La Forge, who was born blind, often wore a VISOR, a crescent-moon-shaped device attached at the temples that allowed him to see. It enabled him to "see" throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, from heat and infrared through light and radio waves. With the cybernetic technology connected directly to his brain, it required such a complex and broad-based input that the user had to concentrate to focus on one area. Eventually, he received ocular implants with electric blue irises and even more abilities. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "The Masterpiece Society", "Hero Worship", "Heart of Glory"; *Star Trek: First Contact*)

Engineering interests, talents, and specialties

La Forge had a great talent for engineering and a keen judgment for needed modifications in the field; his faith in technology and his ability to master it were normally an inspiration to those around him. As a junior officer, his specialties included antimatter power, dilithium regulators, holodeck programs, and climate-control computers. His intense focus enabled him to master the complexities of warp engineering and other starship systems. Geordi's all-night refit of a shuttle engine after an off-hand comment by Jean-Luc Picard garnered the attention of the captain, as it was a testament to his no-nonsense skill and insight. (TNG: "The Last Outpost", "Elementary, Dear Data", "Homeward", "Sub Rosa", "The Next Phase")

During the Zefram Cochrane project, he recalled the *Phoenix* test vehicle's intermix chamber from memory. (*Star Trek: First Contact*)

During the 2369 visit to Deep Space 9, Geordi wished to shop on the station's Promenade, where he wanted to take a look a number of Ktarian antiques on display, including a rumored 21st century plasma coil that was in perfect condition. (TNG: "Birthright, Part I")

Legendary forces

In 2063, La FoFile:F54E82C9-315E-4C3F-AEED-F8720F9C3010.webprge helped his idol Dr. Zefram Cochrane, Human scientist, eccentric genius, and inventor of the warp drive, to launch his warp test vessel *Phoenix* in order to make the historic initial meeting with the Vulcans. (*Star Trek: First Contact*) Similarly, when a transporter loop allowed Geordi to come into contact with the near-mythic engineer Montgomery Scott in 2369, the two joined forces to free the *Enterprise* from a Dyson sphere's interior. (TNG: "Relics")

Personal life

The major childhood trauma of being alone in his burning home caused him great distress, though he was pulled to safety after only two minutes. His isolation from his field-assigned officer parents amplified his feelings of solitude. (TNG: "Hero Worship")

Despite this, his outstanding characteristic was his adaptability to change and satisfaction with life. His sense of humor and affable nature remained strong, despite his growing responsibilities. (TNG: "The Child", "Code of Honor", "The Masterpiece Society", "Relics")

He enjoyed the senior officer's weekly poker game, and though his artificial "eyes" allowed him to detect bluffing and see his opponents' cards in the ultraviolet spectrum, he never "peeked" until a hand was over. (TNG: "Ethics")

On occasion, La Forge sometimes wore a beard. (TNG: "The Outcast", "A Fistful of Datas", "The Quality of Life") When he began showing stubble in early 2369, he was asked by Data if he was attempting to grow another beard. When La Forge asked his opinion on the attempt, Data responded, "*[a]s is the case with many natural growth processes, it is difficult to envision the end product based on an intermediate stage.*" With that response, La Forge decided that he'd "*[g]ive it a few more days.*" (TNG: "A Fistful of Datas") La Forge continued to grow his beard in, and when asked by Worf if he intended to keep in, during one of their weekly poker games, La Forge was not sure at first; Riker, however, felt that it looked good on him. Their discussion lead to Dr. Crusher's challenge that the reason why men still wore beards, was that they were trying to hide something, and/or, that since the razor was invented, beards were little more than an affectation. While La Forge argued that "some of the most distinguished men in history have worn beards," when Crusher offer to "up the stakes" of their poker game, bet that the three men wouldn't be willing to shave their beards off if her hand won. La Forge took Crusher's bet, and told him he had "the hand to beat". When it seemed as if La Forge bit off more than he could chew, their game was interrupted by Captain Picard with a call to return to duty, without knowing the hand's final outcome. (TNG: "The Quality of Life") He wore a beard again, in the form of a goatee, while serving aboard the USS *Enterprise*-E in the mid-2370s. (*Star Trek: Insurrection*, *Star Trek Nemesis*) *He also wore it in an alternate 2390 and in the anti-time future.* (VOY: "Timeless"; TNG: "All Good Things...")

*The real reason why La Forge wore a beard, at first, was due to the factor that actor LeVar Burton preferred the facial hair, but the producers did not, and its first appearance was an experiment that was not approved. Burton was later permitted to regrow his beard again during filming of the latter two appearances in Season 6 for the purposes of his wedding. (*Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion *(2nd ed., p. 194, 227))*

He also delighted in scale model building of old sailing ships, namely the HMS *Victory*, ing chess, swimming, skindiving, fencing, the history of his profession. (TNG: "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Loss", "Relics") He was not well suited for writing or the mandolin, despite a preference for guitarmusic. He liked iced tea and pasta, such as fungilli. (TNG: "Booby Trap") Due to his nomadic upbringing, he was adept at various languages including Haliian. (TNG: "Aquiel")

Personal relationships

Friendships

La Forge always tried to be on friendly terms with everyone around him, yet he only seemed completely at ease in company of his closest friend, Data. The two of them often role-played in holodeck simulations of Sherlock Holmes stories, in which Data assumed the role of Holmes and La Forge was Dr. Watson. (TNG: "Elementary, Dear Data", "Ship in a Bottle")

Geordi was also close friends with Miles O'Brien and Susanna Leijten. Possibly because of his own tendencies to retreat to fictitious settings, Geordi became friends with the extremely shy and nervous genius Reginald Barclay, trying to keep him in reality. (TNG: "Data's Day", "Identity Crisis", "Hollow Pursuits", "The Nth Degree") Geordi also forged an unlikely bond with fellow *Enterprise* Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott after rescuing him from the crashed USS *Jenolan*. (TNG: "Relics")

Romance

Self-conscious and slightly nervous, it took him considerable effort to get in contact with potential female partners. This apparently contributed to his falling in love with two women's holographic audiovisual representations when it appeared that he would never get to meet them in person. (TNG: "Booby Trap", "Hollow Pursuits", "Galaxy's Child")

*Michael Piller once likened Geordi to "the guy who fumbles around women but is in love with his '57 Chevy". (*Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion *(2nd ed., p. 106))*

Geordi was slightly insecure concerning dating and women, though he had significant relationships with Christy Henshaw, Lt. Aquiel Uhnari, and Dr. Leah Brahms. He may have also harbored a slight romantic attraction to his crewmate Natasha Yar. (TNG: "Booby Trap", "Transfigurations", "Aquiel", "The Naked Now", "Hide and Q")

Christy Henshaw

Efforts to date *Enterprise*-D crewmate Christy Henshaw were initially unsuccessful, although she became much more interested in him after an encounter with the Zalkonian known as John Doe left him feeling much more confident. (TNG: "Booby Trap", "Transfigurations")

Leah Brahms (hologram)

Upon meeting the real, married Dr. Brahms one year later, in 2367, things were anything but rosy; after discovering the holoprogram, she resented his usage of her image and accused him of exploiting her. Both had to work hard to find a way of cooperating, but eventually they became friends. (TNG: "Booby Trap", "Hollow Pursuits", "Galaxy's Child")

Working with a holographic representation of engineer Leah Brahms, a key member of the *Galaxy*-class Starship Development Project and, in a way, the mother of the *Enterprise*'s warp propulsion system, La Forge fell in love with her. Despite this attraction, he later noted that he still knew when it was time to turn off the holodeck and say goodbye.

Aquiel Uhnari

Investigating the supposed death of one and disappearance of another officer at a remote subspace relay station in 2369, Geordi reviewed the personal correspondence of the suspected victim, Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari. In the process, he came to know and like her so much that upon her unexpected apprehension, they formed a short relationship. (TNG: "Aquiel")

Alternate realities and timelines

In two alternate quantum realities, La Forge was killed in 2370. In one of them, he died during an attack on the *Enterprise*-D by a Cardassian *Galor*-class battle cruiser. (TNG: "Parallels") Later that year, in an alternate timeline, La Forge's optic nerves regenerated due to the anti-time particles emanating from a temporal anomaly, restoring his vision. (TNG: "All Good Things...")

In an alternate timeline created when the *Enterprise*-C accidentally traveled to the future, La Forge had been fighting in a war with the Klingons for the duration of his Starfleet career. He was still Chief Engineer, but was a lieutenant for reasons unknown. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")

In another alternate timeline, La Forge had been promoted to the rank of captain by 2390 and was in command of the *Galaxy*-class USS *Challenger*. In that year, he pursued Chakotay, Harry Kim, Tessa Omond and The Doctor in a stolen *Delta Flyer* to the Takara sector in an attempt to stop them from changing history by preventing the destruction of the USS *Voyager* fifteen years earlier. (VOY: "Timeless")

*According to the script notes, "*He's slightly older, with ocular implants, rank of Captain. […] His attitude is serious but also even-tempered – if he can win these people over with diplomacy, so much the better.*" Later when he and Chakotay reached an impasse in their conversation, it was stated in the script that "There's a mutual respect between these two men – neither of them wants this conflict to ignite.*"

LeVar Burton found that reprising his own role of Geordi La Forge here was enjoyable. "*It was fun,*" he enthused. "*It was a nice little opportunity to put a spacesuit on.*" (*Cinefantastique*, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)

In an alternate future, around 2395, Geordi had retired from Starfleet to become a novelist and was married to someone named Leah (possibly Leah Brahms). The couple were living on Rigel IIIand had three children, Alandra, Bret and Sidney. Leah became the director of the Daystrom Institute as well as quite a gardener. (TNG: "All Good Things...")

Holograms

Geordi La Forge was holographically duplicated on a number of occasions.

* In 2366, as part of the investigation into the destruction of the Tanuga IV research station, copies of Geordi were created based on the depositions given by the witness in the programs *Deposition Program Riker One* and *Manua Simulation One*. (TNG: "A Matter of Perspective")
	+ As part of Reginald Barclay's holo-addiction, he created at least two programs that had representations of Geordi. One was a recreation of the USS *Enterprise*-D; the other, *Barclay Program 15*, had Geordi as one of The Three Musketeers. (TNG: "Hollow Pursuits")
	+ Barash recreated the entire command crew of the *Enterprise*-D in 2367 on Alpha Onias III to keep Commander Riker there, creating an illusion of the *Enterprise* crew sixteen years in the future. The La Forge hologram appeared without his VISOR – apparently the result of improved medical technology restoring his eyes – but Riker deduced that the simulation wasn't real when La Forge took too long to conduct basic repairs on the *Enterprise*(really the result of Barash having trouble creating a completely convincing simulation), informing La Forge that he was "*incapable of that level of incompetence.*" (TNG: "Future Imperfect")
		- Later that year, La Forge created a holoprogram based on the reports of the Tarchannen III outpost's investigation in 2362by an away team of the USS *Victory*, including himself. (TNG: "Identity Crisis")
		- The James Moriarty hologram recreated the entire *Enterprise*-D in 2369 as part of a ploy to escape the holodeck. Data finally realized the trap laid by Moriarty and revealed it to Captain Picard when they were both in the holographic engineering. Data tossed a tool to "La Forge" who caught it with his left hand, although he was actually right-handed. Data recognized this as one of the holodeck's initial malfunctions and used the visual lesson to show Picard that they were on the holodeck. (TNG: "Ship in a Bottle")
		- When Deanna Troi took Riker's version of the Bridge Officer's Test in 2370, it contained a recreation of La Forge. In order to pass the test, Deanna needed to know that on some occasions she might be required to order one of her officers to sacrifice himself for the good of the ship. During an antimatter leak simulation, Deanna ordered the La Forge recreation to repair the leak at the cost of his own life. (TNG: "Thine Own Self")
		Chronology
		2335
		Born in African Confederation, Earth.
		2340
		Receives his first VISOR.
		2353
		Admitted to Starfleet Academy.
		2357
		Graduates Starfleet Academy, assigned to USS *Victory*.
		2361
		Assigned to USS *Hood* under Captain DeSoto.
		2364
		Assigned to USS *Enterprise*-D as helmsman.
		2365
		Promoted to lieutenant and chief engineer.
		2366
		Promoted to lieutenant commander.
		2370
		Receives word that his mother, Captain Silva La Forge of the USS *Hera*, has died.
		2371
		The USS *Enterprise*-D is destroyed over Veridian III. (*Star Trek Generations*)
		2372
		Assigned to the *USS Enterprise*-E.
		2373
		Travels back in time to 2063 in order to defeat an attempt by the Borg to create an alternate timeline in which the Federation is never created. (*Star Trek: First Contact*)
		2375
		Assists in Picard's rebellion against Starfleet Admiral Dougherty in order to protect the Ba'ku; La Forge's eyes temporarily regain sight because of the Ba'ku planet's effects. (*Star Trek: Insurrection*)
		2379
		Attends the wedding of William Riker and Deanna Troi. Participates in Battle in the Bassen Rift. (*Star Trek Nemesis*)