Comments on: Jordy LaForge’s Visor Totally Looks Like a Banana Clip

By: Panda

Panda — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:37:16 +0000

anyone who calls themselves a star trek fan and spells his name “jordy” is a p’tahk. (it’s a klingon word that basically means you’re a complete idiot. i’m a huge trekkie and PROUD OF IT!)

By: Mike Harbourt

Mike Harbourt — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:53:26 +0000

it’s not a banana clip and anyone who tryes to confirm that it is , is stupid. It is made from an air filter from a car , cut in half. I have read this many places , also I’ve been a mechanic for years and it’s obvious.

By: Mystere

Mystere — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:18:16 +0000

DUDE! He totally did a behind the scenes on a Reading Rainbow episode when I was little! The great thing was that my mom was wearing one at the time… ^.^

By: Cosman246

Cosman246 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:31:48 +0000

It’s Geordi, not “Jordy”

By: sinna

sinna — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:40:13 +0000

actually,, i hate star trek,, i never even watched it but once,, and i know that!! now how does that make me look?? actually,, how does that make the one who posted this look??

By: Brandi

Brandi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:32:57 +0000

It IS what he wore Gene admitted it, LeVar admitted it Gene said that he spent a whole lot of money doing research for Geordi’s VISOR and in the end it was a cheap $4 clip from his wife I know I own the first season on DVD where it says that.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:23:44 +0000

You just pissed of a ton of trekies! It’s Geordi, he was a MAIN character and Gene got the idea from a banana clip in his wife’s hair!

By: trek jew

trek jew — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:00:19 +0000

If you watch the first season of STTNG you will see the top tines and the bottom tines alternate back and forth LIKE A BANANA clip if it was designed after an air/oil filter I would not purchase the car, for it left way too many gaps to allow contaminents in. That is engineering 101!!! Duh!!

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:42:27 +0000

I guess you’re too young to know that that’s where they got the idea for the visor. Everyone was wearing these clips when the Geordi character was created. Good observation, just 23 years behind the times.

By: PJ

PJ — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:54:40 +0000

Ok – even I know that – so I’m not sure what it makes anyone else, but I don’t want to say anything bad about people… play nice ok??
Seriously – they talked about that on a Star Trek special – how Gene’s wife Majel had one in her hair and it gave them the idea… blah blah blah.
BUT you all are very smart and know that…

By: I's I ninja

I's I ninja — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:03:02 +0000

BECAUSE GLASSES ARE DORKY

I’ve had glasses for ever and i’ve always wanted to have a VISOR like Geordi.

By: sandyaj

sandyaj — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:21:57 +0000

I remember an episode of Reading Rainbow where he actually tells us it really was a hair clip in the first season, (it was the episode where reading rainbow was on the enterprise)

By: rat

rat — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:44:16 +0000

this is made of fail… >.<
*fills with Trekkie rage*

1. It’s spelled GEORDI
2. He was a main character

*protects TNG boys, gives Data and Geordi cookies*

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:40:48 +0000

Stoopid with 2 “O’s”, actually. Any Star Trek Fan Knows that the Banana Clip is Exactly what they made Jordy’s Eye Visor from. This has been Common Knowledge ever since the First Star Trek t.n.G. Aired. Lame, Lame, Lame. Warp Nine Lame.

By: MYNAMEISKHAN

MYNAMEISKHAN — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:34:43 +0000

It’s “Geordi”…

By: Cheese

Cheese — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:21:56 +0000

Either way, I think the idea was quite a futuristic fail.

By: Bill Johnson

Bill Johnson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:36:19 +0000

No, no no. People people…
It looks like half a car air/oil filter!

By: Jeff Cross

Jeff Cross — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:08:39 +0000

Geordi’s VISOR *IS* a banana hair clip! All the original concept drawings for the thing looked too much like Oakley wraparound sunglasses.

By: bwahahaa

bwahahaa — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:38:03 +0000

EPIC WIN

By: Heather Mac

Heather Mac — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:52:08 +0000

Um, it’s “Geordi La Forge.”

By: Failerella

Failerella — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:40:50 +0000

Next up on “Totally Looks Like” – computers look like computers! And TVs look like TVs!

By: PixieMcWixie

PixieMcWixie — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:30:46 +0000

Wellllll, the community is “totally looks like” not, er, “is totally made from”. So for me there is still some failure. Also, the name issue.

By: PixieMcWixie

PixieMcWixie — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:28:12 +0000

Jordy LaFroge totally looks like Kloota Quintay.

Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

By: ATL !!!

ATL !!! — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:12:18 +0000

I thought his name was spelled Geordie.

By: D.R.

D.R. — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:06:39 +0000

I always thought it was part of a car filter…

By: Leep

Leep — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:22:51 +0000

Silly, silly people. Believe the first poster. The prop was based on a banana clip, if you look at an actual banana clip it’s too short and not shaped properly to go around anyone’s face.

Whether or not it was metal is debatable but they can make anything look like metal and fashion anything they want out of plastic so they didn’t have to use *actual* banana clips. Duh. I visited the Trek set a few times and had several friends that worked there….good times.

By: mearrin69

mearrin69 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:07:21 +0000

Convincing Internet impersonation of an important figure in Star Trek prop-making history fail. They melted a lot? Give me an f’ing break. LOL.

I bet it worked on some people though: Yes, yes. Let’s trust “Heather” over the video from StarTrek.com. She’s much more credible.

LOL. And people wonder why civilization is going to hell in a handbasket.
M

By: Jade

Jade — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:54:32 +0000

Ugh, horrible. They totally misspelled Geordi.. That made my nerd gland hurt..

By: amgreen

amgreen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:13:06 +0000

HA! Burn!

It’s amazing the simple stuff they used for props. I love TNG special features.

By: heather

heather — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:44:27 +0000

actually, i worked in the prop room for 4 years, and yes they were banana clips, a total of 650 on the series used, and 231 on the films, they tended to melt a lot, and they continued using the banana clip, because the original metal “prototype” visor was too heavy for lavarr to wear for extended periods of time.

By: heather

heather — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:40:54 +0000

the sherlock holmes episodes were not back in time episodes, they were holodeck gone wrong episodes, you are a sucky trekkie

By: heather

heather — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:39:25 +0000

No kidding, i mean seriously, it was a banana clip people, that would be why it looks like one, to be really precise, it was a goody brand double tooth banana clip that came out in 1982, and was dipped in metallic paint. Knowing this may make me a nerd, but not realizing it, makes the rest of you stupid!

By: mearrin69

mearrin69 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:45:45 +0000

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/bst/article/3046.html
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/videoview?id=3002

It was inspired by a banana clip. It is MADE of solid-cast aluminum with brass rods making up the view area. It is NOT made from a frakkin’ banana clip – and if you had ever seen one of them up close and maybe paid attention to Geordi’s visor you would know that.

M out.

By: Pirate77

Pirate77 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:16:35 +0000

I mean banana clip. Too much workie.

By: Pirate77

Pirate77 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:16:10 +0000

Duh… it is a visor.

By: just sayin'

just sayin' — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:57:17 +0000

Well, thank goodness she stopped buying them for SOME reason!

By: Jocasta

Jocasta — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:18:06 +0000

My childhood… <3

By: Janeway

Janeway — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:07:18 +0000

I’ve been saying this for years!!! LOL

By: Lakshmi

Lakshmi — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:49:46 +0000

Because then it wouldn’t have been “the future”. Everyone knows that nothing is the same in “the future”. yeesh

By: Cookie

Cookie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:35:13 +0000

A 1976 Chevy Nova SS with a 305 cubic-inch 8-cylinder engine… and gold paint.

By: x-bert

x-bert — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:07:59 +0000

Guilty.

.. in fact my mom stopped buying them because of me…

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:11:07 +0000

I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who noticed this. Whew.

By: consilioetanimis

consilioetanimis — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:06:28 +0000

i think it looks like the grill on an air con

By: mearrin69

mearrin69 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:47:23 +0000

Yes. “Inspired by”…but made from? I don’t know what the thing was made from…but I’m pretty sure it’s not one of those hair clips.
M

By: Abeotch

Abeotch — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:34:28 +0000

Well….that was as fresh and new a notion as the headline that Clay Aiken is gay.

By: ascatal

ascatal — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:51:40 +0000

Geordi was not a recurring charater he was a regular

By: PeachyKat

PeachyKat — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:44:23 +0000

I like the ones where they go back in time, like the Sherlock Holmes one.

By: PeachyKat

PeachyKat — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:43:47 +0000

OMFG…YES! I remember being required to watch that as part of homeschool in HS and being totally traumatized by the rape scenes in it. It was an excellent series\serial, though, if on the melodramatic side.

By: Unknown Nobody

Unknown Nobody — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:02:21 +0000

I always thought that. But you know, it sure did help him see better.

Why couldn’t they just make them look like glasses?

By: deemacgee

deemacgee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:35:04 +0000