In the film Star Trek Nemesis, Geordi LaForge is seen without his VISOR. There are little lines all through his eyes, so I imagine he got some surgery that renders the VISOR useless. Was this ever shown in one of the three early films that featured Picard and his crew? (I saw all three, but I’ve forgotten.)
No, it was never shown, but he also had the artificial eyes in First Contact and Insurrection as well. I imagine they decided since we’ve been talking about him losing the VISOR for eight years, they didn’t have to explain it.
I forgot to add, in First Contact we get a taste of what Geordi-vision is like. He has infrared and zoom capabilities, apparently, and he can detect leaks. 
He had repaired eyes in the future part of “All Good Things”.
It’s just one of those things that happen during the movies that’re never explained, like Chekov being the Enterprise’s Weapons Officer after being an XO on the Reliant and Sulu becoming a Captain in ST: VI without any foreshadowing.
Visor???
I thought it was an air filter.
I’m going to have to rethink an awful lot of stuff tonight that I thought I had nailed.
Damn!!!
It was a barette.
With gold spray paint.
Wasn’t it in Insurrection that his eyes get “fixed”? Courtesy of the healing-planet?
In Generations the Duras sisters used the interface between the VISOR and Geordi to plant a bug and gather information that ultimatly led to the detrcution of the Enterprise. In First Contact we see that he’s got cyber-eyes, instead of a VISOR. He traded to close the security breach.
In TNG, Geordi once talked to the doctor (I think it was Pulaski, but I’m not sure) about gettine real eyes put in. He rejecte dit, since he can see so much more with the VISOR. Apparently, he either changed his mind, or VISOR-like capabilities had been made in cyber eyes by the time First Contact rolled around.
I should note that the above is an inference of mine. It’s never explicitly stated how or why Geordi got cyber eyes.
I like your inference. And really, I think his cyber-eyes are closer to VISOR contacts than they are to organic eyes, so his objections in second-season TNG probably no longer applied. Does anyone remember the very beginning of the movie Lost In Space? They showed something like this, and then completely failed to mention it again. I imagine it’s shown up in SF a few other times, too.
His real eyes grew back, and rejected the implants. When they left the planet, he returned to having artificial eyes. But he definitely was rid of his VISOR before that.
Finally someone realized that banana clips went out of style.
We also see Geordi-vision in the TNG episodes The Mind’s Eye and Interface.
In all three cases, like many Star Trek effects, it looks completely different.
Well of course it looks different in the movie; he’s wearing a different device. I don’t remember ever seeing Geordi-vision in Interface, but I could be wrong. There were some scenes that were “effectively” what was going on with the probe, but those weren’t what Geordi sees, unless he sees himself in third person.
He might be capable of cycling through different vision modes, a la the Predator in Predator II.
My eyes must be failing. Did SPOOFE just defend a Trek concept?
Hey, it’s not Trek I dislike. It’s the ABSOLUTELY STUPID HAIR-PULLING CRAP that I dislike, such as cracks in event horizons and “predictable” paths of evolution.
'Course, that was Voyager stuff, and EVERYONE knows that it was just fecal matter on film.
I’m pretty sure he’s said as much.
Bah. He also said he could tell when humans are lying, the big… uh… liar.