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Geordi La Forge Visor from Star Trek the Next Generation

......Throughout the series, Burton was equipped with Geordi La Forge's trademark VISOR, which he found extremely unpleasant to wear: "It's pretty much a living hell... 85 to 90 per cent of my vision is taken away when the VISOR goes on... I bumped into everything the first season — Light stands, overhead microphones, cables at my feet — I tripped over it all... So it's a sort of conundrum — the blind man, who puts on the VISOR and sees much more than everyone else around him, when the actor actually does that he's turned into a blind person. Then there was the pain. In the second season, we re-designed the VISOR and made it heavier and the way we actually affixed it was that we screwed it, we literally screwed it into my head and so there were screws that we would turn and there were flanges on the inside that would press into my temples and so after fifteen or twenty minutes of that I got headaches. So I had a daily headache for about six years. Which was also no fun.....



...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.....

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[Bud Brewster]

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It amazes me that filmmakers can be so unsympathetic towards actors when they come up with wacky ideas like Geordi's visor.

I can easily think of a cooler design for a high tech head-mounted devise that supposedly allows a blind man to see, something both comfortable and more impressive that that cumbersome "hair clip" they saddle poor Lavar with.

I frequently found my self thinking, "I'll bet that damn thing is annoying," while watching the show — and I wasn't thinking about the character, I was thinking about the actor!

Which, of course, is contrary to a viewer's "suspension of disbelief", right?
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