Star Trek The Next Generation
S3E6
· Booby Trap

Holodeck Farewell — Geordi Lets Go

After Picard's daring manual slingshot frees the Enterprise and the ancient Promellian cruiser is destroyed, Geordi withdraws to the holodeck for a private, quiet coda. He acknowledges that technology has always been his refuge yet confesses the necessity of trusting human instinct. In a tender, non-romantic moment he thanks the holographic Leah Brahms, kisses the simulation and saves her program as a personal memorial. The beat functions as an emotional payoff — resolving Geordi's loneliness and reaffirming the episode's theme that human intuition and compassion matter even amid technological crises.

Plot Beats

The narrative micro-steps within this event

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Geordi shares a tender farewell with the holographic Leah Brahms, acknowledging their collaboration and saving the program as a personal memorial.

connection to bittersweet closure ['Holodeck drafting room']

Who Was There

Characters present in this moment

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Leah Brahms
Doctor
 primary

Programmatically warm and steady — provides comfort and affirmation, reflecting Geordi's feelings back to him without surprise or judgment.

Leah appears as the holodeck hologram in the drafting room, engages Geordi with warm, validating lines about their teamwork, offers emotional continuity ('I'm with you every day'), and serves as the object of his farewell before the program is saved and exited.

Goals in this moment
  • • Reassure Geordi about his choices and competence.
  • • Reinforce the value of their technical collaboration and the emotional support the simulation provides.
  • • Remain a stable presence that Geordi can memorialize.
Active beliefs
  • • Knowledge and design are concentrated expressions of the person behind them.
  • • A program can embody and transmit the comforting presence of its creator.
  • • Validation and teamwork are important emotional complements to technical problem-solving.
Character traits
supportive steady affectionate (programmatic) reassuring
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Geordi La Forge
Chief Engineer
 primary

Relieved and quietly tender — relieved the ship and crew are safe, softened by loneliness and gratitude, allowing vulnerability in a private space.

Geordi retreats to Holodeck Drafting Room Five after the crisis, speaks candidly about technology and intuition, shares a tender exchange with the Leah hologram, kisses her, and issues the command to save and exit the program.

Goals in this moment
  • • Process the emotional cost of the crisis and find personal closure.
  • • Acknowledge and preserve Leah Brahms' influence and the personal support she represents.
  • • Reconcile his reliance on technology with a renewed trust in human intuition.
Active beliefs
  • • Technology is both a tool and a refuge that shapes identity.
  • • Human intuition and experience can perform where calculation alone cannot.
  • • Memory and ritual (saving the program) are meaningful ways to honor collaborators and anchor personal growth.
Character traits
reflective technically reverent vulnerable grateful measured
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Objects Involved

Significant items in this scene

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Holodeck Two Entry/Exit Hatch

The Holodeck Doors mark the boundary of Geordi's private space. They open with a near‑silent hydraulic sigh when Geordi exits after saving the Leah program, punctuating the end of the intimate exchange and the return to ship reality.

Before: Closed, framing the active holoprogram and preserving the …
After: Open, allowing Geordi to leave the holodeck and …
Before: Closed, framing the active holoprogram and preserving the privacy of the drafting room simulation.
After: Open, allowing Geordi to leave the holodeck and signaling the termination of the Leah simulation.

Location Details

Places and their significance in this event

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Holodeck Drafting Room Five

Holodeck Drafting Room Five serves as a private, constructed workshop where Geordi and the Leah simulation interact. The space operates as both a technical lab and an emotional pressure chamber: a believable fabrication of engine components, soft console light, and the intimate presence of a personified program, enabling an otherwise isolated engineer to express vulnerability.

Atmosphere Quiet, intimate, reflective — calm after the storm, with low lighting and concentrated focus that …
Function Refuge and emotional coda — a sanctuary for private reflection and the place where Geordi …
Symbolism Represents the intersection of technology and companionship; the holodeck is where engineering knowledge and human …
Access Effectively private during program runtime (authorized user session); typically limited to personnel who run or …
Soft console light washing shaded faces Life‑size holographic projection of Leah Brahms Illusion of warm metal and the hum of simulated engines A near‑silent hydraulic sigh as the holodeck door opens

Narrative Connections

How this event relates to others in the story

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Causal

"The failure of the computer-controlled escape simulation leads Geordi to propose the radical plan of shutting down all systems."

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Causal

"The failure of the computer-controlled escape simulation leads Geordi to propose the radical plan of shutting down all systems."

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Character Continuity

"Geordi's frustration with mastering starship systems but failing at human connection is resolved by his meaningful, though simulated, connection with Leah Brahms."

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Character Continuity medium

"Picard's initial excitement and confidence in boarding the ancient ship is mirrored in his decisive action to take the helm during the escape."

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Character Continuity medium

"Picard's initial excitement and confidence in boarding the ancient ship is mirrored in his decisive action to take the helm during the escape."

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Thematic Parallel medium

"Picard's nostalgia for simpler times with model ships contrasts with his ultimate reliance on human intuition to manually navigate the Enterprise to safety."

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Thematic Parallel medium

"Picard's nostalgia for simpler times with model ships contrasts with his ultimate reliance on human intuition to manually navigate the Enterprise to safety."

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Part of Larger Arcs

Geordi La Forge's internal arc—moving from private loneliness and social rejection to professional courage and emotional reconciliation (finding connection through holodeck Brahms, then letting go after saving the ship).

Key Dialogue

"GEORDI: "I've always thought that technology could solve any problem. It enhances our quality of life... It lets us travel across the galaxy... It even gave me my vision. But sometimes you just need to trust yourself and turn it all off. Even the gypsy violins.""
"LEAH: "We made a good team.""
"GEORDI: "Computer, exit Holodeck. Save program.""