Star Trek LCARS Interface

> Tuvok and Seven becoming acquainted through her assistance with the consequences of his injury and sharing perspectives on their shipmates was fun.

> Other scenarios like being trapped in a damaged turbolift, The Doctor struggling with the more utilitarian ethics of emergency medicine, all refreshing to see.

> Living on "spiced up" rations while hiding in a nebula – that they can barely get out of afterwards – was another nice touch.

The collaborator versus resistance aspect of Chakotay and Paris on the timeship too.

> In general the glimpse of Voyager as a story where state persists over time rather than reset each episode was compelling.

Yeah, I have a lot of time for the perspective that the ship should have been in bits by Endgame.

Of course, given the technology at the time TNG was made, showing a lot of different user-specific LCARS panels was nearly impossible, which is why it is "alleged" more than canon fact in the TV shows.

"No tell, only show" is a common problem in a lot of "Prestige TV" right now, leading to so many episodes feeling oddly paced where things need entire scenes across multiple episodes that probably should have been a two minute conversation. So that is not entirely a Picard flaw given how much current TV seems to suffer from it. (It certainly comes from a good intention, coming from the adage "show don't tell" taken to a logical, but awful extreme.) But it stands out a lot more in Picard especially, I think, because you watch old TNG episodes and they did so much exposition/setup in just a carefully worded "Captain's Log" and in that context it seems (at least to me) so how obvious how much could the Picard TV show have used a few more "ex-Admiral's Log" moments to just speed up a lot of filler.

I had not bothered based on 2 seasons of Discovery and 3 episodes of Picard. I just went back to DS9.

Also, from the same source as OP:

https://www.mewho.com/trek/

Spoilers and tangents:

It's mentioned in only a throwaway line of dialog in S3 (by Captain Shaw) that those Borg were busy elsewhere. (Though we know not what or why.)

Allegedly, Agnes' Borg are the (Memory Alpha canon) Borg Coöperative, an offshoot of the Borg that play interesting roles in Memory Beta canon (several novels, Star Trek Online), though have a different origin from Memory Beta canon and different organization structure and don't properly connect to the VOY episodes hinting at such… This is all alleged as Picard's writers didn't actually give us enough text to that affect, it's all just subtext right now in Alpha canon plus making inferences from Beta canon (and trying not to get upset that they took one of the good, fun ideas from Beta canon and nearly broke it by doing it so poorly).

(The fun of the Borg Cooperative [in Beta canon] versus the Borg Collective is that the Borg Cooperative ultimately shows that the true assimilation threat in the Star Trek galaxy, while slower and "more peaceful", is truly the Federation, especially when its ideals gets into a culture's head and won't leave. The Collective is mostly defeated and will never assimilate all of the Federation, but the Federation certainly assimilated enough Borg to form its own faction of peaceful Federation allies.)

For me, Discovery just misses the point and panders to the demands of a wider audience. The production value us excellent, very talented cast and likeable characters, but they carried the weak writing hard. The series emphasis on action and war was also punctuated mainly thanks to the characters rather than any semblance of Star Trek.

Unfortunately, this is the destiny of virtually everything, provided that the target is to maximise profit and maximising profit is equated to maximising volume and minimising risk.

Funny, now that I think about it, Quark wouldn't struggle to find a place in our society today at all. He would probably work at a big movie studio.

Don't let your thinking be flat where you can only come to conclusions that are data driven. Use your intuition and project the creative consequences yourself. LCARS is owned by paramount so it can't really be used as a UI theme anywhere else without permission.

But what if it could? Just imagine it, it's not that hard. Hacker news can be themed into lcars with largely zero change to the XY location of every element. Picture it with your minds eye.

edit: I ended up finding an example: https://www.thelcars.com/menu/. But everyone should be able to come to the same conclusion without data. It's so trivial that illegal fan made examples do exist.