The elaborate backstory of the USS Enterprise-D's chief engineer would have changed everything for the show.
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LeVar Burton is one of the most successful Star Trek: The Next Generation alumni. The actor played the role of chief engineer Geordi La Forge for seven seasons and even directed a few episodes of the series. He returned behind the camera for subsequent spinoff shows.
While La Forge's character has a lot of mystery surrounding him, an oral history of the show revealed that the writers actually had some background on the character's origins. According to producer Jeri Taylor, Geordi La Forge was written to be a half-alien hybrid with a horrific background.
LeVar Burton was a huge Star Trek fan before he was cast as Geordi La Forge in The Next Generation. The actor has proclaimed his love for the original series and his admiration for creator Gene Roddenberry several times. Burton played the character for all seven seasons of the show and reprized his role in the films and subsequent spinoff shows.
