Wow! If I had a nickel for every time a Trek show had a blind engineer, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right? - eviltoast

Transcription: A side by side picture of Star Trek Strange New Worlds character Hemmer and The Next Generation character Geordi La Forge.

    • reddig33@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not like anyone knows half the names of the crew of Discovery. Most of the time it was The Michael Burnham Show ™.

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      1 year ago

      He was just a mycology engineer, not the chief engineer. I honestly can’t remember if we ever see main engineering on Discovery. They mostly work in the Spore Drive engine room. But that was Discovery’s schtick, that it wasn’t the “main” crew that were the stars originally.

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      1 year ago

      I’m seeing people saying both I, and the official Star Trek bio that I linked are wrong. How about an image of his personnel file?

      Some people just like to argue for no reason at all.