14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Generations

3. I Spy With My Little VISOR

Star Trek Generations VISOR Klingon spying
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It’s really unbelievable that after being imprisoned, abused by Soran, and stripped of his VISOR, Geordi just goes back on duty without anyone bothering to scour every nanometer of his sight gizmo. Hell, Geordi himself ought to have been concerned that the VISOR might have been tampered with. It’s not just a pair of fashionable shades, after all, it’s an intel nightmare.

And speaking of the VISOR, even choking down the horse pill of an idea that this sabotage would work at all, the writers missed a great opportunity to milk this action for all its potential tension. The moment they realized the Klingons were able to fire through their shields Geordi should have rotated the shield frequency, and when the Klingons instantly matched that frequency change one or twice, put together what they did to his VISOR, rip it off and order someone else to change the frequencies, but too late to save the ship.

 
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Maurice is one of the founders of FACT TREK (www.facttrek.com), a project dedicated to untangling 50+ years of mythology about the original Star Trek and its place in TV history. He's also a screenwriter, writer, and videogame industry vet with scars to show for it. In that latter capacity he game designer/writer on the Sega Genesis/SNES "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Crossroads of Time" game, as well as Dreamcast "Ecco the Dolphin, Defender of the Future" where Tom Baker performed words he wrote.