His high school yearbook photo.
Lieutenant Commander Groovy La Forge
I need someone to Photoshop Geordie’s visor onto this.
🙏 amazing 🙏
If I had hair like this, I would dress up like a microphone every Halloween.
I’m so glad this look has come back.
Agreed 100%. Natural black hair in general. I think it’s awesome. It looks great, much better than black people trying to make their hair look white.
Edit: I wonder if LeVar Burton or Avery Brooks had to fight to not have “white” hair? Nichelle Nichols either had to straighten her hair or wear a wig. I’m guessing the latter.
Brooks was known, at that time, for his role on “Spenser: For Hire” as Hawk. Eventually, Hawk got his own show. For the part, Brooks sported a shaved head and goatee. That is the same look he had on Seasons 4-7 of “Deep Space Nine.” According to ScreenRant, it was a part of Brooks’ contract with Paramount that he keep the hair. It turns out that both Brooks and DS9 showrunner Ira Steven Behr pushed for Sisko to shave his head. In the documentary “What We Left Behind,” Berman told Behr that there was a lot of “conversation about African American men and facial hair. It was something that was very important.” In the documentary, Behr said that it took three seasons for Paramount to allow Brooks to shave his head and grow his goatee. “This is a look that he was very clear on,” said Behr. “This is how he felt comfortable as a person in life.” In the film, Behr pressed former Paramount Television chairman Kerry McCluggage for an answer as to why it took three seasons for them to relent and allow Brooks to adopt his ‘look.’ “I do think going in, particularly that he was coming in off of ‘Hawk,’ we were also in the 24th Century, that we thought it would be a mistake to go … to … lack of a better word ‘street,’” said McCluggage. Later in “What We Left Behind,” Penny Johnson Jerald, who played Sisko’s wife (Kassidy Yates), said that after Brooks shaved his head, he was “incredibly sexy.” “I always wanted to touch it,” said Jerald.
I remember that from the documentary now! Thanks!
Incidentally, Penny Johnson didn’t have natural hair in either DS9 or The Orville.
Still a great actor, all the same.
No wonder he joined Star Fleet, he’s fly as hell.
Ngl, im jealous of that hair.
I get that hair if I don’t cut it, but it’s of the Jewish variety and thus not especially attractive. I am also jealous.
I dunno, and forgive this term if it’s one that’s become unwelcome without me catching on, but I dig the “jewfro”. I’ve always thought they looked awesome. Maybe not the same kind of awesome as African descended folks have, but still just a really cool look.
Before I lost most of my hair, it was pretty nice, tbh. But it was also fairly standard white boy hair in texture, and rather soft, so I could never do anything really interesting with it without a ton of product. Left to itself, it just hung there. Nice coloration, but boring as hell if there wasn’t a breeze lol.
I did manage to maintain a decent 80s style mullet my senior year, with the top feathered and lightly sprayed. Then I just let it grow after that. Now I rock a skullet, and gaze with envy at the cool hair others have lol
I had a Jewfro that large in high school, but it was a mess. Maybe because I was a teenager. I just shave it all off when it gets too long now.
Edit: New, more tasteful picture
I know which one of those two I’d rather have read a book to my kids.
That is actually an excellent point that I didn’t consider in the 2 minutes it took to toss together the photo. I’ll delete out of respect for kids. My mistake for not putting thought into who I put in the meme.
Oh fine, ruin my joke.
Lol, I didn’t mean to be a spoilsport honest! I’m not upset at all, but when you’re right you’re right, and you were right!
What’d I miss?
The original celeb I had singing into LeVar’s luxuriant afro was Michael Jackson from the Jackson 5 days, which is why Flying Squid’s joke worked. So instead I changed it to Thanos, and in my head he’s singing “The Final Countdown”. Or maybe “Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck”.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.
I fixed it with a picture that a) isn’t morally questionable and b) still works with your joke.
