Bochra Becomes Geordi's Eyes
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Geordi confirms his VISOR is functional but useless due to his blindness, while Bochra reveals he's losing leg mobility.
Bochra challenges Geordi's defeatism about locating the neutrino beacon, sparking their competitive dynamic.
Bochra proposes connecting the tricorder to Geordi's VISOR to detect neutrinos, surprising Geordi with the idea's potential.
Geordi explains the technical impossibility without sight, prompting Bochra's pivotal offer to serve as his eyes.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Stoic with underlying physical distress; determined and insistent, channeling discomfort into pragmatic action and pressure to continue.
Bochra lies weakened but alert, reports loss of feeling in his legs, picks up Geordi's tricorder, argues for a technical workaround, and volunteers to provide the human coordination Geordi cannot — offering to act as Geordi's eyes to implement an improvised neutrino pointer.
- • Enable a means of locating the beacon to secure extraction or survival
- • Create a cooperative instrumentality with Geordi to increase both their chances
- • Maintain agency and relevance despite injury
- • Practical solutions trump protocol or ideology in survival situations
- • Humans are prone to giving up; persistence can be exploited or encouraged
- • The VISOR contains usable sensor outputs that, while incompatible on paper, can function as a directional pointer if someone helps interpret them
Dejected and frustrated on the surface; intellectually engaged but pessimistic, masking fear of helplessness with technical skepticism.
Geordi physically inspects his VISOR by touch, confirms diagnostics beep but reports he cannot perceive; he reasons through technical limitations aloud, alternates between technical problem‑solving and dejection, and ultimately voices defeat about adapting the VISOR to locate the beacon.
- • Determine whether his VISOR is physically intact and what it can still do
- • Find a practical way to locate the beacon and enable rescue
- • Avoid futile effort — conserve energy and resources while assessing realistic options
- • Hardware reports (diagnostic beep) mean physical components are intact even if functionally compromised
- • Adapting neural output pods by touch is impractical and unlikely to yield usable data
- • An approximate directional 'pointer' is sufficient for rescue — exact sampling unnecessary
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Geordi's tricorder is picked up by Bochra and becomes the proposed intermediary sensor: not set for neutrinos but identified as the only portable detector that could register a directional cue when linked to the VISOR outputs; it functions narratively as the bridge between detection and rescue.
Geordi's VISOR emits a diagnostic beep confirming its internal hardware is functioning, yet it produces no usable perception in the storm's interference. It is the central technical constraint and potential resource: its neural outputs could be adapted to act as a neutrino pointer but require manual reconfiguration and interpretation that Geordi cannot perform blind.
The neural output pods are referenced as the tricky interface between Geordi's neural VISOR outputs and external devices; Geordi warns adapting them 'by touch' is difficult — they embody the technical blockage preventing immediate conversion of sight outputs into a usable pointer.
Riker's beam‑out marker (the beacon) functions as the offstage target and narrative MacGuffin whose location both men need to find. It motivates the technical improvisation — the entire exchange centers on how to acquire a directional fix to that beacon for rescue.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Galorndon Cave confines the two characters to a cramped, storm‑buffeted interior where charged particles and wind degrade sensors and force close quarters cooperation. The cave's hostile electromagnetic environment both disables Geordi's sight and makes the tricorder/VISOR adaptation necessary; it is the practical and symbolic crucible for the alliance.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Geordi's blindness leads to Bochra's proposal to adapt the tricorder to the VISOR."
"Geordi's blindness leads to Bochra's proposal to adapt the tricorder to the VISOR."
Key Dialogue
"GEORDI: My synapses must be turning to jelly. The VISOR's fine, but I can't see a thing."
"BOCHRA: But your eye device does. Connect them."
"BOCHRA: Then I'll be your eyes."