Q; If the computer was monitoring Geordi's movements, which it was, how come there was no alarm or anything when he disappeared by turning into an alien?
A; Depends, I would think, upon what the computer defines as movement and what it defined as La Forge. The computer, it could be argued, thinks of La Forge as, you know, that black dude with the visor, around five ten (I'm guessing) one hundred and forty pounds on the hoof. When Geordi mutated into an alien, he was no longer La Forge in the physical sense, so the computer apparently simply no longer registered him as being himself any more, and arguably correctly too. As for not sounding an alarm when La Forge ceased to exist, why should it? It probably just thought he'd stopped moving.
Mind you, all this flies in the face of the accepted wisdom, on my part anyway, that the computer keeps track of people by their comm. badges. This would have meant that since Geordi discarded his uniform on the Holodeck, presumably complete with comm. badge, when asked for his whereabouts that's where the computer would have understood him to be. When Worf didn't want to be found when he went a-killing-oh in 'Reunion' the first thing he did was to dump his comm. badge.
I wonder why Picard didn't ask Geordi to talk to the guy who nicked the shuttle craft when he was heading for the atmosphere? They'd worked together, after all, so maybe a personal appeal from a colleague might have succeeded where a plea from a Starship Captain, one of the high-ups, failed.
One cheery point that no-one thought to bring up. When Susan starts going down with the heebeegeebees, Beverly tells Geordi that he may well be the next in line. This is on the basis that all the original settlers disappeared, and the original Away Team, (La Forge, Leitjen, Hickman, Mendez et al), are themselves turning one by one into monsters. This is due, it is generally held, to their being exposed to something down on the planet. Hang on though. After the shuttle blew up, a new Away Team beamed down to investigate the two shuttles which were already there. This Away Team, as well as Geordi and Susan, included Riker and Worf. This means that they'd been exposed to whatever was down there on the planet as well, so shouldn't someone have pointed out to them that, albeit in a few years time, they were likely to start turning Bertie?
Funny how Geordi grew his eyes back as an alien. Also strange that the little blinking nodes at the side of his head where he connects his visor vanished when he was an alien, then reappeared when he turned back into a human. Odd, that. The little whatchamacallit inside him was supposed to be turning his DNA into another kind of DNA. How did it manage to change his visor connectors? They aren't part of his DNA, are they?
Geordi and Susan get on so well together, it's hard to remember that this is a guy who is supposed not to be able to get along with the girls. This episode rather gives the lie to that.
The Best of Both Worlds Part
Two Family Brothers Suddenly
Human Remember Me Legacy Reunion Future Imperfect Final
Mission The Loss Data's Day The Wounded Devil's Due Clues
First Contact Galaxy's Child
Night Terrors Identity Crisis
The Nth Degree Qpid
The Drumhead Half a Life The
Host The Mind's Eye In Theory
Redemption