Geordi being fucking inconsolable about the idea of Data being gone and being the one to find him in The Most Toys. VS. Data being inconsolable at the idea of Geordi being gone and being the one to find him in The Next Phase.
They couldn't let Geordi in on the "does Data count as a person?" discussion because he would have immediately obliterated anyone arguing he doesn't. Geordi would hear someone try to argue Data's perception isn't real because it's electrical signals or whatever and he'd just be like "so like how my visor works?" and then they'd start backpedaling
Geordi would stand there and make them try to define humanity in a way that excludes Data but doesn't have any weird implications about disabled people and just watch them dig their own graves because they CAN'T. And it just keeps sounding worse
Me and the terrifying supercomputer i pulled by understanding the sexual allure of the machine