I get it, it’s the 32nd century and the glasses are maybe heads up displays that only he can see and use. But don’t you think in three thousand years they would have figured out how to build that stuff INTO or ONTO the eye? Instead of making the person, or the person choosing to wear an ancient form of corrective lenses.
I was cleaning some metal tools a few days ago and I got some rust in my eye … it’s been bothering me since then but it’s healing … at the height of it, it was so irritated that I wouldn’t have minded someone butchering it to fix it.
I’ve also had snow blindness several times as a kid in northern Ontario … it usually happens in March / April because the snow is still on the ground and there is lots of sunlight … it’s like having sandpaper in (emphasis on inside) your eyeball that you can’t relieve even when you close them. It’s times like that when I wouldn’t have minded someone butchering my eyeball if they said it would make things better.
On the other side of that … yes I wouldn’t want any 21st century doctor or surgeon to fool around with my healthy eyeball in any way … but I would trust a surgeon or technician from the 32nd century using highly advanced and tested technology.
You can wear glasses too, which can be easily removed.