Why Geordi?

We went through a ton of names for our dog in the past year. Particularly if we went on a weekend drive, that's all we'd talk about. It's funny how most names you'd think of are attributed to people you already know. We wanted a unique name that none of our friends or family had, and we certainly didn't want our dog to be named after something like tobacco (e.g. Winston) or an evil hobbit (friends suggested Smeagol). It was also important that our dog had a name unique enough that it wouldn't be confused with an everyday word.

Our top names ended up being Chewie, Doug, Wilson (volleyball from Castaway?), and Geordi (for boy dogs) and Daphne (for a female dog). Geordi was by far our favorite name. I guess the only person with the same name would be the friendly chief engineer Geordi LaForge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We're cool with that.