• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I don’t think that’s contradictory at all though.

    Geordi wanted to be able to see [naturally], but his visor is superior to human eyes in that it can see things that humans can’t naturally see.

    To put it a different way: a person with advanced bionic legs that never tire, could run far faster than any natural human, and bend in ways that human legs can’t, would have superior legs. But there wouldn’t be anything wrong with their stance if they said “yeah but I just want normal human legs”.

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      7 hours ago

      Geordie’s new eyes were still bionic though weren’t they? It’s been a while, but I’m sure I remember him using them to search for someone in the movie.

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      4 hours ago

      I don’t think that’s contradictory at all though.

      Geordi wanted to be able to see [naturally], but his visor is superior to human eyes in that it can see things that humans can’t naturally see.

      we are nitpicking here, but if i amputate your hand and stitch can opener at its end, you can now do something normal human hand cannot, but i don’t think anyone would call that superior, or prefer it to their own hand.

      if geordi decided that after considering all factors, he would rather have normal eyes, then that is definition of “not superior” to me.

      and just a reminder that this is the extraordinary experience we are talking about. i am definitely choosing my eyes 😆