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[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 97 points 4 months ago

They address Geordie's desire to not be "cured" so many times in the series that I question whether or not you've watched it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

We don't really care about 100% adherence to established canon around here. Especially if it's amusing.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 months ago

Okay but this erases the much larger discussion about ableism, something that Geordie's character (sometimes clumsily) personifies.
"Don't fix me, I'm not broken".

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago

Who said the mockery chip was politically correct?

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I suppose, but so does him getting cybernetic eyes in the movies.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

not if you only consider is cyberEyes to be mere upgrades to his visor (which, if you'll recall, also hurt him to use) rather than a "cure".

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Ok this is making me really think I need to watch this show. It’s a statement I’m often frustrated that able folks don’t get that some of us have.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

I do have to warn you, the quality varies. Rick Berman and, strangely, Gene Roddenberry himself, both held the show back: forcing rewrites; being sleazebags; crushing cast interpretations of their own roles; and projecting their hangups onto the franchise for as long as they could.
Progressiveness isn't always linear.

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

One thing that has bothered me in cannon was that he specifically stated he didn't want ocular implants and jeep his visor in the show but when the movies rocked up suddenly he was implanted up.

Now I'm not saying people xant change there mind but I found it jarring without the fuckit doc just cut me moment

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Owning glasses and refusing contacts, I kinda feel him after my 10th pair with bent up ear stocks.

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Oh I get it I'm exactly in the same place but 20 years.

I think part of the reason I found it jaring was due to him being so adiment so often to the point he found it funny that he saved that colony based on some filter his vizor used for a colony that would never have let someone like him exist

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

In universe reasons aside, those do not look like fun to wear on set when you're trying to remember your lines and actions.

[-] brianorca@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

I'm assuming the implants were more advanced after a decade or two of research. So whatever bothered him about implants was solved.

[-] Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I love it when he Jeeps his visor

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

This sounds like key and Peele.

He put the jeepin on the chain visor

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

fucking jeeple shake my smh head

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

IIRC, the implants didn't function right for him so he stuck with the visor. I think it was mentioned that the tech had improved since he first tried, but he liked how his visor provided more visual info than the implants. I always assumed he just changed his mind when he got older and wasn't crewing a starship.

[-] quindraco@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Agreed, should have been on camera.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago

Welcome to tenforward, where the points are made up and canon reasons don’t matter.

[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

The joke part of this Internet picture joke is that there's an android teasing a person.

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