Little changed as far as the character's abilities went, and at first sight, his new implants retained the unique features of the VISOR. A native Californian, Rob Vaux has been a critic and entertainment writer for over 20 years, including work for Collider, Mania.
He lives in the Los Angeles area, roots for the Angels, and is old enough to remember when Splinter of the Mind's Eye was a big deal. By Robert Vaux Published May 11, Share Share Tweet Email 0. A bank of preprocessors uses a pulse compression routine to compress the data stream into pulses so that it doesn't overload the senses. TNG : " Starship Mine ".
La Forge once joked that he could see through a certain type of playing card , while explaining to Worf how he knew his cards. La Forge then dismissed the joke, though, stating that he only peeked at the cards after the hand was over.
TNG : " Ethics ". Using it caused La Forge physical pain, a result of his natural senses conflicting with the artificial sensory input from the device. Beverly Crusher offered him the options of either painkillers or exploratory surgery to desensitize the areas of his brain that were being affected, but La Forge declined both because they would interfere with the operation of the VISOR itself.
TNG : " Encounter at Farpoint " When Romulans kidnapped La Forge in , they were able to use his existing neural implants to tap directly into his visual cortex and secretly brainwash him. While usually harmless, this emission caused Worf to shift between quantum realities in , whenever he was in close proximity with the device; the pulse aggravated a quantum flux that Worf began experiencing after he came into contact with a quantum fissure.
TNG : " Parallels ". Lursa and B'Etor used the footage to discover the Enterprise -D's shield frequency. Star Trek Generations. Despite these embellishments, many fans quickly guessed that the prop took its inspiration from a banana clip. It was Michael Westmore, Jr. Michael, who had worked for me a few times in the past, thought we should have an interesting effect to indicate the contact point [ They had wires running through LeVar's hair and down the back of his neck to a small battery pack underneath his arm.
According to Memory Alpha: The VISOR detected electromagnetic signals across the entire EM spectrum between 1 Hz and , THz and transmitted those signals to the brain through neural implants in the temples of the individual via delta-compressed wavelengths.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. I can recall conversations between LaForge and Crusher about it. C: And you've felt pain all the years that you've used this? L: They say it's because I use my natural sensors in different ways.
C: Well, I see two choices. L: Which would affect how this works. C: Exploratory surgery. L: Same difference. The pain is canon , mentioned in the very first episode. One other point is that LeVar Burton has very expressive eyes and this was lost on screen for the entire series, so removing the visor allowed for the camera to catch a wider range in his acting.
Also, Geordi's normal eyes healed in Star Trek: Insurrection - the magical healing radiation of the planet regenerated his optic nerve though Memory Alpha indicates that it may have been only temporary. As someone who has worn glasses his whole life, that's the only part of that awful movie I recall fondly.
Show 3 more comments. Valorum Valorum k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I never understood why they felt the need to throw the word "hero" in there all the time. LightnessRacesinOrbit - In stagecraft the word "hero" means that it's the version used in close-up e. In TV it's often the version with working lights or moving parts. For example, you might make ten phasers for a scene but only have three of them with lights on.
You also have "stunt" versions which are often made from rubber or foam to prevent injury and "breakaway" where the prop is intentionally weakened if it needs to break a certain way in a scene; en. What silly terminology! LightnessRacesinOrbit - What would you call the version used by the hero? BrianOrtiz - He claims to have a screen-worn one from Season 4. Show 2 more comments. First Contact - A Novel and in the film's original screenplay Scene You say almost.
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