Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Geordi La Forge

The character we met at the beginnings of the 25th century was markedly changed, yet still the same Geordi. Now a commodore, so outranking Riker, he was also a family man, more cautious, understandably less willing to charge headlong into the fray. Plus, he'd spent the last 20 years on one hell of a side project!

For LeVar Burton, Bounty of Star Trek: Picard's third season was the first time he had played La Forge since Star Trek: Nemesis, although he did lend his voice to Star Trek: Online in 2017 for the 'featured episode' Beyond the Nexus, and then again in the game's season 14. Geordi was also a main player in beta canon/canon-ish works in the run-up to one major galactic event (for two universes): the Romulan, 'Hobus,' supernova.

All the way back in 2009, Geordi appeared in Star Trek: Countdown, the four-part comic book prequel series to JJ Abrams' Star Trek, set in 2387. In it, Geordi has resigned from Starfleet and taken to starship design, most notably of the Jellyfish, of later Spock and 'red matter' fame.

In case you didn't get the ticking clock of impending doom hint the first time, another pre-nova prequel comic series entitled Countdown was released in 2019-2020, this time prefaced by Star Trek: Picard. In this series, Geordi has the herculean task of heading up construction of the Romulan evacuation fleet at Utopia Planitia Shipyards. This fact is then picked up in Una McCormack's 2020 novel Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope, whereupon Mars is set aflame by the 'rogue' synths (i.e. the Romulans did it).