[Morgan]

Here's something cool, and something I never had back when these were new. At least not till 1997 anyway. Here's a Geordi second release figure signed by LeVar Burton.

By the time I started collecting in 1994 these were out of stores, so I didn't see one until I saw it for sale in a collectibles shop a couple of years later.

It's nice the Pmates went back and did the first season uniforms, and Geordi actually got a lot of figures in the first few years: 1992 release, 1993 here in a diamond red uniform, then in dress uniform, and then as the Tarchannen alien figure that for some reason made it past a lot of rounds of review. Then, as with Data, Pmates went back and did the "Generations" Geordi right, and they also made a future figure from "All Good Things," unless I'm hallucinating that, as well as Geordi with a firing phaser rifle.

Geordi's character development throughout the run of TNG was on the modest side: the only thing the writers could come up with is that he had no luck with women.

I've wondered if any DS9 stories attempted to write La Forge into a script somehow, since so many TNG characters have popped in over the years, but I guess it never came together. It was pretty neat to see him on Voyager though, of all places, as the captain of the USS Challenger.

One of LeVar Burton's greatest strengths in this character was the ability to "sell" technobabble like nobody else. He made it sound believable, and in a way that you could hear it and picture it being plausible. Very few other actors had this ability, but Burton sold technical jargon really well.