Considerando a novela para TNG: Descent , parece que Geordi não é enganado pelo holodeck um pouco. Ele pode escolher para ver o espectro que lhe permitirá percebê-los, mas ao mesmo tempo ele também vê que eles não têm forma verdadeira nem substância verdadeira, descrevendo o lugar como pouco melhor que um desenho animado.
Geordi saw through the images as he did all holodeck images. No heartbeats, no heat generation, no pulse. The fabulous science here tried very hard to make these beings appear real, but Geordi, the Enterprise’s one blind crewman, could see right through them by using another science.
The holodeck should have been just that to him—hollow. Nothing here should ever have succeeded in fooling him, drawing him into the scenario.
But that had happened before. He’d come into this place where everything looked like a cartoon, and he’d allowed himself to be caught up in the people he met and the things he “saw.”
That’s how I know I’m more human than machine, he realized as he stared at the three people around the table, and as he sank tentatively into the dealer’s empty seat.