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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To add here, not everyone is born with disability but sometimes shit just happens

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, I think for Geordy his eyes just got consistently worse until he was blind without a visor. On Ba'ku his eyes recovered briefly.

[–] Stamets 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He was born blind and remained blind until he got his first VISOR at 5 years old. It's in the TNG episode Hero Worship. His optical nerve was regenerating on Ba'ku but whatever his disability, it would eat away at it once he left the planet.

[–] grue 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could've sworn he was born without optic nerves or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He mentions that his eyes will deteriorate again once he leaves Ba'ku

[–] grue 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge#Early_life :

Due to a birth defect, he was born blind


By the way, "again" in that context doesn't necessarily imply his eyes deteriorated before. It references the previous change, but that includes the improvement, not just some hypothetical previous instance of deterioration.

It's like saying "he went in the door, then he went back out again," which doesn't imply he had previously exited.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but if his birth defect had no degenerative component his eyes wouldn't get worse after being healed by Ba'kus energy field