Mephusto wrote on 2020-08-16, 09:47:
I love this! I don't know if I have anything to run this, but I know I would love to have it 🤣
VileR wrote on 2020-08-16, 15:36:
Didn't see the thread til now. Not that the .gif is very legible, but it does look pretty cool!
I'm curious though which classic LCARS interfaces predate the TNG series? Didn't the LCARS thing start with TNG?
[Edit] okay, saw the TOS stuff in your first link now, but I hadn't realized it was "LCARS" proper 😉
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VileR wrote on 2020-08-16, 15:36:
I'm curious though which classic LCARS interfaces predate the TNG series? Didn't the LCARS thing start with TNG?
[Edit] okay, saw the TOS stuff in your first link now, but I hadn't realized it was "LCARS" proper 😉
Yes, you're right, I think. The LCARS was introduced in TNG by the Okudas, I think.
But some Trek sites also consider the computer panels of the previous generation as "LCARS".
These are the panels in green/blue, which also show lower case letters sometimes..
In the older movies and whenever an old ship is shown, the ships have these old panels usually.
For example: Enterprise bridge in ST:V (link), Stargazer bridge in "The Battle" (link)
or Chakotay's ship ("Val Jean") in VOY (link) or the Hathaway (link)..
By contrast, TNG's LCARS is all upper-case, if memory serves.
Kind of reminds me of that one Episode of Futurama, in which Bender says to Fry that lower cases don't exist.
Also, there's TCARS still, a future version of LCARS.. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/TCARS
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