Captain Geordi La Forge

Character Information

Gender		Male
Species		Human
Age		58
Birthdate		February 16th, 2335
Birthplace		Mogadishu, Somalia - Earth, SOL

Physical Appearance

Height		5'5
Weight		135lbs
Hair Color		Black with streaks of Gray
Eye Color		Blind - He uses Implants to see.
Physical Description		Geordi La Forge is on the shorter side of things as human men go, he was also never overweight either, he was small and lean.

Family

Spouse		Tamala Harstad-La Forge - Chief Medical Officer, USS Challenger
Children		Silvia La Forge - Civilian, Child (Named for his mother) Beydaan La Forge - Civilian, child Mica La Forge - Civilian, child
Father		Captain Edward La Forge - Chief Science Officer, Starbase 185
Mother		Captain Silvia La Forge - Deceased
Brother(s)		None
Sister(s)		Ariana La Forge
Other Family		Nadifa La Forge (niece) Astur Fa Forge (nephew)

Personality & Traits

General Overview		Geordi La Forge is a man who has more or less seen just about everything, he has a mental maturity about him that many people lack, he also has a sense of humor and can see the funny side in just about everything, he's always ready with a world-weary joke. When work needs to be done, he's always the first to step up and help with whatever needs to be done.
Strengths & Weaknesses		Strengths: He is a people person, he's highly skilled in engineering and he's able to work with just about anyone. Weaknesses: He has issues with enclosed spaces due to his experiences with the packleds, he also has issues with women. He does not like sitting around, directing others when work needs to be done, he hates feeling useless.
Ambitions		To be a good father to his children, a good spouse to his wife and a good commander for his crew, not all in that order all of the time.
Hobbies & Interests		He enjoyed the senior officer's weekly poker game, and though his artificial "eyes" allowed him to detect bluffing and see his opponents' cards in the ultraviolet spectrum, he never "peeked" until a hand was over. He also delighted in scale model building of old sailing ships, chess, swimming, skin-diving, the history of his profession, and fencing. He was not well-suited for writing or the mandolin, despite a preference for guitar music. He liked iced tea and pasta, such as fungilli. Due to his nomadic upbringing, he was adept at various languages including Haliian.

Personal History		Geordi La Forge, the son of Edward M. and Silva La Forge, was born in the African Confederation, Earth on February 16, 2335. He was born completely blind. The blindness was caused by an "incurable optical nerve defect." In 2340, at the age of five, La Forge was briefly caught in a fire, and unable to escape, due to his blindness. He was rescued by his father, and shortly after was given his first VISOR from Dr. Lenske. Geordi met the designer of his visor, Doctor George Tarmud, in 2370 during the Universal TechnoFair that was held on the Enterprise-D. After receiving his VISOR, Geordi was taught to suppress the pain by a Vulcan Healer. Around this time, Geordi visited Cambridge University on a family outing. In 2343, Geordi was given his first pet, a Circassian cat named Alexi. In his early years, Geordi traveled around a lot with his parents, as they were both Starfleet officers. In his formative years, he saw many fascinating sights, including the remnants of the Achorii civilization. By the age of 12, in 2347, Geordi was living with his mother aboard a Starfleet science ship. Also in his early years, La Forge had a mentor, Nassa Coleridge. Starfleet Academy: In 2353, Geordi decided to follow in his parents' footsteps and entered Starfleet Academy. Between February 16, 2353, and February 16, 2354, Geordi was taught an archaeology course by his former mentor, Nassa Coleridge. In his final year at the Academy, Geordi spent five-months rewriting a dissertation for Dr. Zorka, after Zorka initially rejected it. Geordi struggled through the class and eventually passed. Early Starfleet Career: Ensign La Forge graduated from the Academy in 2357 and was assigned as conn officer aboard the USS Victory under the command of Captain Zimbata. In 2363. On Stardate 40164.7, the Victory was conducting a survey of Tarchannen III, to determine the whereabouts of 49 missing Starfleet personnel assigned to the planet. An away team, commanded by Lieutenant Susanna Leijten, failed to locate the personnel, and the Victory left the planet. During a stopover at Starbase 324, the Victory underwent an inspection by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, then the head of Starfleet Tactical's Long-range Threat Assessment and Response Division. While being shuttled back to the starbase by Ensign La Forge, Picard made an offhand comment about a minor power inefficiency in the shuttle. La Forge took it upon himself to spend the entire night refitting the shuttle's fusion initiators, finally not only eliminating the inefficiency but obtaining an efficiency rating slightly above that rated for the shuttle. Shortly after, Geordi transferred to the USS Hood, under the command of Captain Robert DeSoto. During his year aboard the Hood, he became close friends with first officer William T. Riker. Aboard the Enterprise-D: In 2364, La Forge transferred to the Enterprise-D along with Commander Riker, to serve as conn officer under Captain Jean-Luc Picard. He spent his first year aboard the Enterprise in the position of navigator at the rank of Lieutenant J.G., before transferring to engineering and becoming the ship's new chief engineer with the rank of full Lieutenant. In late 2365, the Enterprise responded to a distress call from the Pakled freighter, Mondor. La Forge beamed aboard to assist them with repairs when he was taken as a hostage and held for ransom until he upgraded their systems and provided them with hand phasers and photon torpedoes. La Forge managed to engineer his escape by bluffing the slow-witted Pakleds, with help from the Enterprise. In early 2369 Geordi, Worf and Ro Laren took the shuttlecraft, Goddard, to receive Starfleet briefings. On their return journey, the shuttle was forced to drop out of warp due to solar flare activity and crash-landed on the planet Riat. On the planet, the solar flare activity also interfered with Geordi's VISOR from time to time. The shuttle damaged beyond immediate repair and the planet inhospitably cold the away team sought shelter in a nearby Dracon monastery. Unfortunately, the order of monks in the monastery had become violent and cannibalistic due to radiation from the solar flares causing a mutation in algae in their water supply. The team was forced to fight the monks off several times before another shuttle from the Enterprise arrived to rescue them. Aboard the Enterprise-E: Following the destruction of the Enterprise-D at Veridian III, La Forge was assigned as chief engineer of the Sovereign-class Enterprise-E. By 2373 La Forge had replaced his VISOR with full spectrum synthetic eyes. When the Enterprise was transported back to the year 2063, La Forge was instrumental in helping to repair the Borg inflicted damage to Earth's first warp ship, Phoenix, and in convincing Zefram Cochrane to complete his historic flight. Early in 2374, Geordi accompanied Captain Picard and Ro Laren on a secret mission into Cardassian territory to destroy an artificial wormhole being built by the Dominion. In 2375, La Forge took advantage of the Ba'ku planet's rejuvenating properties. Having never seen a rainbow or sunset, he watched the sun rise with Picard, on the surface. In 2379 he commanded the Piper team mission to infiltrate the nadion-pulse cannon firebase located on the summit of Mount Ranakar on Tezwa. Later that year, after Riker accepted command of the USS Titan, La Forge was offered the position of the first officer of that ship. La Forge declined the offer. During the same year, Geordi was also partially assimilated by a Borg tachyon pulse from the future; ironically, only his existing cybernetic implantation allowed him to survive the process. Using the access that this gave him to Borg hive mind, he was instrumental in defeating the collective's plans to "assimilate the past." In 2380, Geordi was briefly away from the Enterprise and Reginald Barclay served as interim chief engineer. In early 2381, Geordi received a promotion to Commander. After the discovery of the adrift Intrepid in 2383 by the USS Enterprise, La Forge was briefly reassigned to the USS Challenger as the vessel's Chief of operations under Captain Montgomery Scott. He, along with his repair crew, was taken captive by Berlinghoff Rasmussen and his partner, the Ferengi Bok who planned to use the Intrepid to travel to 2162 in order to alter history. La Forge was able to prevent this from happening and was, due to Scotty's injuries, promoted to Captain of the Challenger. On his first mission as Captain of the Challenger, La Forge led an investigation into Trans-slipstream, a new form of propulsion that caused the loss of the Intrepid's crew. While rescuing the crew of the IRW Stormcrow, the Challenger was transported to NGC 4414 where it also encountered the derelict USS Hera. The ship had been lost while under the command of his mother. Teaming up with the crew of the IRW Tomalak's Fist and the survivors of the Hera, La Forge, and his team were able to seal the rift and return to their own galaxy. Upon his return to the Milky Way. He remained in command of the USS Challenger due to the actions taken by himself and his crew. While unusual and unorthodox, he was judged to have acted in the best interests of all concerned. His relationship with Leah Brahms slowly fell apart due to time and work, she had her own career and she departed after a couple of months. LaForge meanwhile, had been encouraged by Brahms to date someone else as they were just too different, he decided that she was right and the two parted as friends. La Forge began dating a woman named Tamala Harstad and the two quickly became close. La Forge was considering assignment to a Starbase after he got married in mid-2383. Captain Picard officiated as his last duties in Starfleet before his retirement. LaForge then remained in command of the USS Challenger, handling various engineering issues that arose. In the mid to late 2380s. La Forge assisted with the shaking down of the technology pioneered on the Century line of starships and later the Guardian line. However, most of their technology could not easily be back-fitted to the older ships. La Forge quickly realized that Starfleet was going to have to do a full rethink about their fleet. La Forge was asked for his thoughts and opinions on the matter. He was rather blunt about the state of the fleet and maybe it was time for a major shakeup. He also explained that Century could do things that even the Galaxy could only dream about. Challenger and all of her siblings were old and obsolete now. In late 2390. when the USS Challenger was decommissioned. La Forge was offered command of the USS Challenger, a new Guardian class starship that was being asked to handle some work for the SCE, intrigued by the idea, LaForge accepted command of the new Challenger, his spouse and children beside him.
Service Record		Starfleet Academy - Earth, SOL 2353 to 2357 - Conn /Engineering Student Cadet One / Four USS Victory - Constellation Class 2357 to 2363 - Shuttle Pilot / Conn Officer Ensign USS Hood - Excelsior Class 2363 to 2364 - Chief Conn Officer Lieutenant JG USS Enterprise-D - Galaxy Class 2364 to 2365 - Chief Conn Officer Lieutenant JG USS Enterprise-D - Galaxy I Class 2365 to 2371 - Chief Engineer Lieutenant / Lt Commander USS Enterprise-E - Sovereign Class 2371 to 2382 - Chief Engineer Lt Commander / Commander USS Challenger - Galaxy I Class 2382 to 2382 - Second Officer / Chief Operations Officer Commander USS Challenger - Galaxy I Class 2382 to 2390 - Commanding Officer Captain USS Challenger - Guardian Class 2390 to Present - Commanding Officer Captain