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File:LCARS panel from Star Trek Voyager at Filmwelt Center.jpg
An LCARS panel from Star Trek: Voyager, similar to one shown in the third-season episode "Displaced". The colors of the backlit artwork have faded over time; the panel looks more yellow and blue in the episode.

In the Star Trek fictional universe, LCARS (Template:IPAc-en; an acronym for Library Computer Access/Retrieval System) is a computer operating system. Within Star Trek chronology, the term was first used in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series.

ProductionEdit

The LCARS graphical user interface was designed by scenic art supervisor and technical consultant Michael Okuda. The original design concept was influenced by a request from Gene Roddenberry that the instrument panels not have a great deal of activity on them.<ref name="ReferenceA">Template:Cite magazine</ref> This minimalized look was designed to give a sense that the technology was much more advanced than in the original Star Trek.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

On Star Trek: The Next Generation, many of the buttons were labeled with the initials of members of the production crew and were referred to as "Okudagrams."<ref name=techmanual />

PADDEdit

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The LCARS interface is often seen used on a PADD (Personal Access Display Device), a hand-held computer.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

At Template:Convert, similarly sized modern tablet computers such as the Nexus 7, Amazon Fire, BlackBerry PlayBook, and iPad Mini have been compared with the PADD.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Several mobile apps were created which offered an LCARS-style interface.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

LegalEdit

CBS Television Studios claims to hold the copyright on LCARS. Google was sent a DMCA letter to remove the Android app called Tricorder since its use of the LCARS interface was un-licensed. The application was later re-uploaded under a different title, but it was removed again.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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