Star Trek

Picard had an accident when he was in the academy when he and some friends got into a fight with Norsicans... Picard was stabbed in the back...  There is an episode 'Tapestry' where Q takes him back to that time to see what his life would become if that accident didn't happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccgmm6kb710&feature=related   Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yav-OdXR94&feature=related   Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cjm7bCTkCY&feature=related   Part 3

You're thinking way too ahead nurse.

Perhaps he kept the visor because it was sexy and hip in the clubs back then.

he was born blinddd

I think during the episode were he was trapped in a cave with that romulan he told the romulan he was born that way. The episode makes the point that the technology of his visor is what saves them since it allows him too see beyond the normal spectrum. In a way, his vision is superior to normal, although maybe not as aesthitically pleasing to him. But then again he never knew otherwise until his implants.

You have to remember the timeframe. This is when legislation was being proposed (and eventually adopted) to accomodate the disabled. For the same reason we had a Russian and an African and a Oriental on the original show. To be inclusive. And to show, for all the perfection of the 24th-Century, we still have disabled. Geordi, 100 years earlier, was nowhere to be found. That has real-world reasons (no one would accept it in 1966) and it could be we didn't have the technology to make Geordi functional.