Editing Geordi La Forge (section)

===Reality===
''[[New Scientist]]'' magazine reported on research as to whether a device similar to a VISOR can actually be created for blind or visually impaired people. Partial sight has been successfully restored to blind rats by installing an implant behind the [[retina]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7216-bionic-eye-may-help-reverse-blindness/|title='Bionic eye' may help reverse blindness|date=March 31, 2005|newspaper=[[New Scientist]]|access-date=September 15, 2020}}</ref>

Several types of [[visual prosthesis]] are in development or trials in humans, and one device has been approved for sale in the European market. {{As of|2006}}, 16 blind people worldwide have had sight partially restored in a procedure where electrodes implanted in their brains take impulses from a camera to allow patients to see lights and outlines of objects.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://rdu.news14.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=82612 |title=New device allows woman to see, even without eyes |date=March 31, 2008 |newspaper=News 14 Carolina |access-date=August 30, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522053800/http://rdu.news14.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=82612 |archive-date=May 22, 2006 }}</ref> There is a device developed by NASA called a [[Joint Optical Reflective Display]], or JORDY, that is presumably named for Geordi La Forge.

On August 14, 2012, the [[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]] published an article stating the encoding of image information by the [[retina]] into patterns of action potentials has been replicated successfully by a prosthetic device and scientists have successfully restored full vision to blind mice. Scientists were able to mimic this ocular response using glasses, and speculate that a similar pair of glasses may be available for human use within two years.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Nirenberg|first1=Sheila|last2=Pandarinath|first2=Chethan|date=August 13, 2012|title=Retinal prosthetic strategy with the capacity to restore normal vision|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=109|issue=37|pages=15012–15017|doi=10.1073/pnas.1207035109|pmid=22891310|pmc=3443127|bibcode=2012PNAS..10915012N|doi-access=free}}</ref>

LeVar Burton, who played the character of Geordi La Forge, disliked the VISOR prop because it restricted his peripheral vision – albeit less than its prototypes – and the constant pressure of the prop's arms on his temples caused headaches. In commentary for ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'', film writers [[Ronald D. Moore]] and [[Brannon Braga]] noted Burton also felt the prop limited him as an actor, as it denied him the use of his eyes in conveying emotion. The original prop was inspired by a one-piece women's hair clip brought to production by Michael Okuda during the initial conceptual development of the VISOR prop.