He basically begged for that position after years of standing in the transporter room, waiting for the odd episode where something actually does go wrong with it.
He wanted a place where he could be creative and solve problems, rather than be overshadowed by the chief engineer getting the credit every time.
As a software engineer for a large corporation, I feel this deeply
Yes and Geordi is too perfectionist to deal with the messiness of working on an abandoned Cardassian station. The job is half auto mechanic, half engineer. Geordi is all engineer. We hardly ever saw him get his hands dirty.
He basically begged for that position after years of standing in the transporter room, waiting for the odd episode where something actually does go wrong with it.
He wanted a place where he could be creative and solve problems, rather than be overshadowed by the chief engineer getting the credit every time.
As a software engineer for a large corporation, I feel this deeply
Geordies has like a 10th of the skills Miles has, there’s no way in hell Geordi could keep DS9 running.
Also, he’d go broke renting out Quark’s holosuites.
Yes and Geordi is too perfectionist to deal with the messiness of working on an abandoned Cardassian station. The job is half auto mechanic, half engineer. Geordi is all engineer. We hardly ever saw him get his hands dirty.