New kids in the class. Let's watch and discuss, Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Yeah, I feel like Geordi's blindness is meant to be a fairly unusual case of a person who has a handicap that isn't dealt with at birth and had to find a technological work around.

TOS had another blind person (guest-starring) with a technological workaround (Miranda Jones, in the season 3 Is There In Truth Now Beauty? episode)- that was basically akin to sonar, making it impossible for her to pilot a starship, since she couldn't see things that were on viewscreens.

So there's already precedent for Geordi's situation.