Fake Geordi La Forge just walks off set

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[ORam...]

The set of Reading Rainbow is back there.

[himwhoisnottobenamed]

As he walks behind the wall he even looks like he's hanging his head in shame. 😂😂

[animateddepression]

That’s where his poster of Leah Brahms is.

[NeonVisual]

He went to take his Visor off so he can cry.

[TheFiddleFaddle]

That alcove has always been there. That's where Data was replacing the isolinear chips in The Naked Now.

[MarcMiller]

We saw that area used before. But in universe I figured after Picard got his access codes phished (they haven't figured out passkeys in the future?), there was no more plans for fake Geordi so his hologram equivalent just abandoned. Phish complete!

[matthewkanin]

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was lucky enough to know some of the TNG crew and got to tour the permanent set at Paramount. Even in the context of a sound stage, the main engineering set is extremely impressive and immersive. In the technical manual, that alcove leads towards other areas within the engineering space, some of which is built out - like the control panels that the Borg drones interact with when they breach the Enterprise- but - not as fully built out as it appears in those drawings. Instead of leading to all of the sub-engineering space that you see in the technical manuals and schematics that Mike Okuda drew, it has some funny angles so that the camera does not see where it actually goes, even if it follows actors for quite a bit. Where it in fact goes is to another part of the functional set: a generic Enterprise-D corridor. Although the schematics have Enterprise having miles and miles of corridor, there were just a few lengths of generic corridor that every corridor shot would be filmed in, and if it was meant to be a long one, they'd have to repeat, like a film editor's treadmill. So, that's where Holo Geordi would have ended up as he completed his journey into the alcove: a random, - corridor. This would easily allow an actor who was in part of a scene in Engineering, but then leaves, to exit unseen, off-camera. That particular corridor from the left of engineering goes by Sickbay and a generic Crew Quarters, if I recall. The more detailed space where you see the crew playing with computer chips during Naked Now appears to have been a temporary set not part of the permanent construct of main engineering, but I could be wrong; I was there around 1993, not long after the DS9 set was built, and it's possible that it had been remodeled in 1987.

Although only a fraction of the grand Enterprise that we're meant to imagine, the level of detail of that permanent set was amazing.


Thank you for sharing this clip, and its absurdity, and reminding me of my visits to the Star Trek set as a youth.

[cdb]

That nook leads to the Chief Engineer’s Office…I’m a huge geek 😅

[bryanwoods]

Classic programming trick. Have the character go behind an object to hide reducing memory utilization. The system dematerializes him to not break immersion.

[shaunm]

He's going around the corner to sulk about it. He doesn't want anyone to see him.

[animateddepression]

I like to think all holodeck characters have a safety built into them. All you have to say is “go away” or “you’re not real!” and they just nod and wander off into oblivion.

[cassidystarchild]

His office is behind the nook it's in the schematics for the Enterprise

[LucasKeesee-vmyp]

Captain: You are not the real person you claimed to be.
Engineer: Any ideas how I can fix that?
Captain: ... um ... no, we ... can not.
Engineer : <leaves>
Captain: Fair enough.

[colin]

I think the in universe explanation is that The holographic Gordy isn't self-aware, so the program isn't able to react to The fact that he's a hologram.

Around the time of voyager they start building holograms with materxes that would later be acknowledged as sentient.

[sparklefairykitten]

I did always think it was funny/odd that despite how brilliant of a holoprogrammer Moriarty is shown to be, his 'Geordi' has no programming to respond to this so he just goes "okay, bye"

[TheAdamGiles]

I believe that Nook has always been there. Otherwise, I've always had the same reaction.

[MillywiggZ]

All the fake guys are just standing there, like those dead-end corridors in a computer game player isn’t supposed to see but they put all the NPCs there.

[calimann]

Holo Geordi was just a normal Holodeck character. While in season 1 we see holodeck characters reacting to learning about the real world it seems that was later fixed. After that they have a reaction similar to this homo Geordi, a bit of confusion then they get over it. Likely they are programmed to not comprehend being told they are fake. Every time we see an exception to this (like Vic) they are specially programmed to be different or there is a glitch.

[benspratling]

Yes, that wall, unlike some in engineering, has always been there. Check out the episode “Naked Now”, and you’ll see it.

[j-smack]

Real or hologram, Geordi's always tortured