Star Trek

His cybernetic eyes weren't white orbs.  And you can connect with him more deeply without the visor because Burton was then free to express emotion better.  Eye expression is very important in acting.  Data was able to convey emotion better during the show.

without, let the poor guy work without having to look through that silly banana clip

I love Geordi either way!  But I think that the synthetics were really cool because they made him look pretty fierce.  By the time Geordi gets the implants he is older and experienced and I think this helps his overlook.  It gives him a look of almost hawkishness, and someconfidence. 

Come on- black guy with blueish eyes... he will finally gets some girls.  Especially with the tough of gray inhis hair and he lackof a 90's flat top!  Quite the silver fox!

I liked both.  The visor was cool during the run of the show, but it was nice to see a change come First Contact.

With the visor, but only for nostalgic reasons. Levar is a great actor and can convey so much emotion with his eyes, so it was nice to see him catch a sunset in Insurrection.

I wish they would've done more with the visor though, as far as visually. Like being able to see sound waves while people talked to him, or the massive distortions he was seeing in All Good Things. Just a thought.

I like him better with the VISOR. I think, as strange as it may sound, that it made the fact that he is a handicapped individual more visible and therefore more a part of the character, and I thought that was ballzy.

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 I say with the visor.   I know medicine advances but those cloudy eyeballs were creepy.

just wanted to say I liked them better. did not like those creepy cloudy eyeballs either.

I like him with the Visor it looked so much more futuristic!

Definitely with his visor. I think the visor gave a sort of uniqueness to the character, something that defined him from the others. Also, to be quite frank, the eyeballs creeped me out a bit.

This is a difficult question.

Well, maybe not.  For me the answer is clearly "with the visor."  They were trying to explore the concept of disability in the future.  I think they rarely achieved this, though.  Instead they tended to use the visor as a weird (but cool) plot device, where it was always transmitting or receiving strange things.

It's always cool when he takes off the visor in specific episodes, because it's so rare to see him without it.  And I guess I like the fact that he doesn't wear it in the movies, since it shows some advancement and whatnot.  But I'll go with "with" as a general answer.

Losing the Visor was the daftest thing they ever did - it would be like Spock suddenly getting his pointed ears humanised. It was part of what Geordi was all about.

The notion of him being blind in the first place was also a little absurd because in a few hundred years they should have cured blindness.