George tries to save his mother, but there's a tragic secret about the episode that'll be revealed later on.
The thing about this episode isn't what others stated about Geordi not being interesting or something related, but I just found it very implausible that a suit designed to mimic or transmit the actions of a user would be able to harm that user as he or she wore it. It just seemed like story hokum, or a plot point that was just made up on the fly with no real thought put into it as to whether that would actually happen or not.
And that's my only real criticism of this specific episode. The rest of my criticisms apply; i.e. The soft presentation of both visuals and music, as well as the use of plot as a background device to let the character interaction take prominence; i.e. The thing that fans of the show stated made this version of Star Trek "more intellectual" than the Kirk and Spock era of Trek that I at one time loved so much.
Personally this was more watchable than the "let's discuss our feelings" episodes that comprise the supermajority of this show. It's more plot driven but still has the character interaction as the important aspect of the show and this episode, though the action does kick in about halfway through the episode.
But, like I say, if you were to design a suit to give input into a duplicate of yourself in some other location, would you really let the feedback from that suit deliver pain and a possible lethal dose of pain to the wearer? I really doubt it. It's just nonsense, but that's the tension of the story.
I watched most of it when it first aired and shrugged my shoulders at it. It had more action, energy and dynamic story telling to it, but again the suit had plausibility issues. Still, unlike the supermajority of this show, I was able to watch this episode.
