Geordi LaForge was always my favorite character on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Hard to remember now, but when that show premiered, Levar Burton was probably the biggest name actor on the cast, and he got cast as a jay-gee lieutenant who spent most of the first season pressing the “go to warp speed” button and looking at things with his electronic eyes. Anyway, the point is, that they cast him in the most neglected regular-character role of the ensemble cast.
Anyway, I was also at that time a huge fan of Reading Rainbow - that educational PBS show hosted by Burton that encouraged kids to read. Imagine my excitement as a child, then, when an episode of Reading Rainbow focused on Burton’s work on Trek. Anyway, I love YouTube … I can’t remember the last time I saw an episode of Reading Rainbow, much less that particular episode, but if you never saw it, or if you haven’t seen it in years and years and years, just look “after the break” …
