Within the timeline of “Picard” — the “official” timeline — Geordi La Forge serves because the curator of a starship museum, working intently together with his daughter Alandra. His relationship with Sidney, although, is not too rosy, and the 2 need to pressure a heart-to-heart dialog partway by way of the season. 

When pitching his concepts to his potential actors, Terry Matalas was cautious to get every of their particular person approval earlier than going forward with a last draft. In spite of everything, he feels that the actors “know their characters higher than I do.” However that he “was lucky that, creatively, we have been very aligned.” Matalas, naturally intimidated in speaking to the forged of “Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology” sharply recollects his name with Burton particularly, as his concepts — he modestly admitted — deeply moved the actor. He mentioned: 

“I keep in mind vividly the Zoom dialog I had with LeVar Burton, the place I took him by way of the 10-episode arc I had envisioned for him […] I pitched to him this massive second on the finish of the season, and by the point I used to be accomplished, there have been tears in his eyes. It dawned on me that I simply made Geordi La Forge cry with this story. After which I began to cry.” 

The top of La Forge’s arc stays to be seen, but when Burton had that response, it appears that evidently every little thing will work for the most effective. Not by the way, so as to add to the present’s dramatic punch, Alandra La Forge might be performed by Mica Burton, LeVar’s real-life daughter. Not solely had Geordi La Forge grown into his future, however so too, it appears, has the actor taking part in him. 

There’s magnificence to that.