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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (1983–2006). Burton received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow. His other roles include Cap Jackson in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Donald Lang in Dummy (1979), Tommy Price in The Hunter (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ali (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990, he was honored for his accomplishments in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From 2017 until 2024, Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults". In October 2024, Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network and streaming online.
LeVar Burton
Geordi La Forge
for Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: Galaxy
Suggested by optimistic_writer
Jean-Luc Picard is now retired on the Picard Family Vineyard like the opening in "All Good Things...". Geordi La Forge contacts him to have him reinstated for a mission in regards to the USS Galaxy, which went missing at the end of the Dominion War. It turned up in a strange part of the galaxy near the Gamma Quadrant and La Forge wants an Admiral to be part of the mission, and he trusts Picard. As well as not trusting the new hot shot and reckless captain who heads the mission. His wife, Leah Brahms, and his children also will be coming along to the mission with the former having no interest in being a part of this. Picard begrudgingly agrees to be a part of the mission, as he has been more reserved after the death of his wife. While heading over to this part of space, they get into a combat situation and the captain is killed, and the crew is forced to abandon ship to the dilapidated Galaxy. Now on a ship that can barely function, the crew are also tethered to a strange space-time anomaly that has them being transported across times and galaxies, trying to find out the mystery of this ship, and a way to get home.
