With Star Trek: Picard allowing us to visit old familiar faces, we are left without some, particularly that of Geordi La Forge, might recent information tell us of his return for Picard Season 3? Let’s take a look!
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Star Trek: Picard has given us the return of Picard, Seven, Riker, Troi and others.
But a character that has been really missing, especially with the Data and Hugh content in season one of the show is Geordi La Forge.
So it wouldn’t be a big surprise if this character returned in the new seasons of the show, and this new information may be just that!
Let’s look at this information and also what Geordi has been up to since we last saw him in the ancillary content around Star Trek: Picard.
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The last time we saw Commander Geordi La Forge was in the year 2379, where he was serving aboard the Sovereign-Class USS Enterprise E during the Shinzon Crisis.
According to the novel “The Last Best Hope” his story continues, as he continued to serve as the chief engineer of the Enterprise E all the way up until the year 2381.
In that very year, news about the Romulan Supernova had been intercepted by the Federation, and Picard was chosen to head up the Relocation Efforts of affected Romulan colonies.
This resulted in Jean-Luc being promoted to the rank of Admiral, and him leaving the Enterprise to take command of the Odyssey-class USS Verity to oversee relocation efforts.
Geordi LaForge volunteers to assist Picard, and is put in charge of Utopia Planitia to oversee the construction of relief ships that are needed to be made to relocate the billions of people.
A big problem Geordi faced in production of these new ships was that certain components still had to be created with technical expertise by hand,
and there was a shortage of engineers capable of this job.
Geordi went to the Daystrom institute and Bruce Maddox, to propose creating non-sentient androids using bio-neural circuitry to assist in the production of these intricate components.
These were the A500 synthetics seen on Utopia Planitia and Mars during the flashbacks in Star Trek: Picard.
And as you all know, on First Contact day, April the 5th, 2385 the A500 synthetics on Mars went rogue, seemingly on the orders of the Zhat vash, a shadowy Romulan cabal who hated synthetics, and attacked mars and utopia planitia..
This attack killed over 90 thousand people and ignited the atmosphere on Mars. Luckily for Geordi La Forge, he was on a shuttle en-route to Earth, presumably to celebrate First Contact Day.
La Forge developed survivor's guilt from this, knowing that the people he had worked with for the past four years were probably dead, and yet he was still alive.
It seems that in the following year of 2386, Captain Riker of the USS Titan had met with Ambassador Spock during a Romulan trial.
Admiral Spock was working with the Vulcan Science Academy to help the Romulan people now that the Federation had turned away following the attack on Mars.
Spock would ask Riker to connect himself with Geordi, due to Geordi’s shipbuilding expertise, which would presumably lead to Geordi creating the Jellyfish,
the ship seen in Star Trek 2009 which Ambassador Spock piloted in order to deliver the red matter into the heart of the Romulan Supernova and create an artificial singularity to absorb the supernova.
And that is all we hear of LaForge until the year 2399,
where Picard is gearing up for his mission to find Dahj’s sister. Zhaban, Picard’s housekeeper, tells Picard that he needs a crew and that La Forge might be someone worth contacting.
This lets us know that La Forge is still alive by 2399.
Now that we have discussed what Geordi La Forge has been up to in the ancillary material, what is this new news which might reveal his involvement in later seasons of the show?
Well the first piece of information is extremely small, but interesting. During the Star Trek: First Contact art and video memories panel recently hosted by Larry Nemecek (Nem-Ah-Check),
which had numerous trek creatives such as John Eaves, Doug Drexler and the Okudas as well as many other great people who have worked behind the scenes on Trek, we got a little tid-bit of info.
The Okudas and Doug Drexler have recently returned to Star Trek: Picard.
For those who don’t know who they are, Michael Okuda created the “ ' the interactive displays seen first in The Next Generation,
with Denise Okuda being a scenic artist on the show as well and doug Drexler having worked on TNG to Enterprise, designing numerous ships including the NX-01 enterprise design.
The group were talking about Dave Blass, the production designer on Star Trek: Picard, and how he was a true fan of Star Trek and it was so great to see someone behind the scenes like that.
Doug Drexler would then say that “The Actors, Like LeVar came up to him the other day and said “You got it right”” in regards to small details relating to the design of Star Trek.
Now obviously we have had LeVar Burton on the set before for Star Trek Picard, but the inclusion of “The Actors” including LeVar Burton makes us believe that he might have returned for a cameo in Season 3,
LeVar did confirm earlier this year that he is not in season 2 of the show, but recently in a new interview in Rolling Stone, he states that:
“Here’s what I will say about Picard: I do believe that whatever else is going on in his life, in the storytelling that they’re engaging in now, he still knows these people. It is certainly feasible, if not plausible, that they should show up at some point during this current adventure. We’ll see.”
So he does say that it is plausible that Geordi La Forge would show up during this third season, which isn’t a direct confirmation, but it is better than nothing.
This combined with the fact he was recently on set and referred to as an actor makes us think that he will be in season 3 of the show.
It seems like Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard is very starfleet focused, due to the sets and props being shown off by Terry Matalas, the Showrunner of Season 2 and 3 of Picard, on twitter.
So having the former chief engineer of the USS Enterprise would not be a long stretch, especially with no real engineer aboard the crew of the La Sirena, and the possibility of Picard getting a new starfleet ship, which we discussed in this video on screen now!
Personally we would really love to see Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: Picard.
We do appreciate that this show is not a TNG 2.0 show, and it shouldn’t have the new cast and characters be overshadowed by our fan favourites, but a cameo every now and again, like with Riker and Troi in season 1, is always great to see!
But what do you think of Geordi La Forge returning to the show? Let us know in the comment section below!
La Forge is certainly one of the top Star Trek characters, he’s also right up there with legendary Starfleet Engineers,
so having him back on Star Trek once again would simply be fantastic. His character development throughout The Next Generation and the followup films were simply amazing, so therefore I hope we get to see more!
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