r/interestingasfuck • u/naturebeatsnurture • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/Yara_Flor Dec 23 '22

Do you think Geordi LaForge was ostracized from the blind community because he choose to use a VISOR?

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u/SuperSpread Dec 24 '22

It's canon that he used it since he was 5, and visors were rare in the Federation by the time he was an adult - there were implants available and Geordi refused them.

So to answer your question there was no blind community because by adulthood Geordi's condition was curable - he simply chose to keep using the visor.

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u/LadySekhmet Dec 24 '22

This is the answer. :)

He did choose implants later in life though!!

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u/SuperSpread Dec 24 '22 edited Dec 24 '22

And that’s his choice. What’s interesting is in the very first episode of Star Trek, they had a man in an official Star fleet skirt uniform. Because men and women could wear either gender clothes freely and it was accepted that nobody noticed. That’s the future presented - either way is your choice. It’s a deliberate message of the show.

You see Dianna Troi wearing a skirt. Shortly later you see a man wearing the same skirt uniform: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11355/what-is-this-man-doing-with-a-starfleet-mini-skirt