is it two different establishments, or have they built their own nuclear vaults with blackjack and hookers?

An insect that sees ultraviolet light doesn’t see it how we see it

It was showing a representation in the visible light spectrum of what the visor can detect

the insect’s brain evolved to process insect’s available sensory input, so did human’s. so geordi would see exactly the same reducted picture that we see on the viewscreen, because that is the only thing our brain knows how to do.

and you are still narrowing this discussion to subset of the facts. there is still the fact of visor being piece of technology that can be lost, malfunction, causes occasional pain and allows its wearer to be hacked by romulan intelligence. i don’t call that superior to my eyes.

anyway, i don’t think we will progress further in this discussion, so until next time 🖖

There’s also nothing there that shows or says he can’t see the visible light spectrum.

there is, it is exactly there on the screen, his perception of visible spectrum is just one step above nothing. would you want to see like that? accompanied by occasional technical problems and pain? would you call that superior to your eyes?

He would see it differently than what appears on the viewscreen.

that is just unfounded assumption, if you want to argue like that, you can make up literally anything and the discussion loses sense (not that the level of sense was very high anyway 😆)

bit different in that he could see the visible light spectrum

he could not: https://i.imgur.com/dlVpyIo.mp4

would you want to see like that? i mean if you were born blind and this was your only option, it is definitely better than nothing, but other than that, it is hard no from me.

I don’t think that’s contradictory at all though.

Geordi wanted to be able to see [naturally], but his visor is superior to human eyes in that it can see things that humans can’t naturally see.

we are nitpicking here, but if i amputate your hand and stitch can opener at its end, you can now do something normal human hand cannot, but i don’t think anyone would call that superior, or prefer it to their own hand.

if geordi decided that after considering all factors, he would rather have normal eyes, then that is definition of “not superior” to me.

and just a reminder that this is the extraordinary experience we are talking about. i am definitely choosing my eyes 😆

Geordi made it clear more than once that not only would he rather just be able to see, but that his VISOR caused him constant pain

it was also suggested that his visor was “superior to human eyes”. star trek is habitually inconsistent and sometimes it is better not to think about it too much.

try to bury it in some rice first