#synthsexual

1) What’s going on with Geordi and somewhat synthetic organisms? I mean, he’s an engineer, constantly surrounded by machines, his best friend is an android and once a Borg is on the Enterprise, Geordi immediately becomes his best friend. Like, someone is clearly synthsexual or synthromantic here. Yes, now we have such words. I made them (or so I hope). You’re welcome. 

2) How’s that ST writers fail to write an interesting male-female relationships all the time since, well, 60s, but they do write beautiful non-hetero relations? I mean, Borg and Geordi were better written than all hetero-romances. Even if you see them as friends (and that’s, by the way, how I see them) they still have much better chemistry going on than some Picard-Vash (ugh).

3) Besides, why do ST writers insist on writing Geordi flirting with women from time to time? It’s not about this particular episode. Just an observation. I mean, it’s always so awkward and uncomfortable. And again, Geordi is clearly more himself with synthetic persons than biological organisms, so... Why do writers torture him? For the sake of what? ‘’Straightness’’?