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Star Trek: Wesley Snipes on Losing Geordi La Forge Role

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away – wait, sorry, nope, wrong franchise. Let’s start again. Long, long ago in an era called ‘the late 80s’, Wesley Snipes was almost cast as Geordi La Forge, the helmsman of the USS Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation who would go on to become its chief engineer. After the audition process for the Next Generation character wrapped, Snipes would end up losing the part of Geordi to Roots actor LeVar Burton, which he has now admitted he was pretty disappointed about. “Not as disappointed as I was not…
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