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This is an early LCARS panel (Library Computer Access and Retrieval System) from Star Trek The Original Series. It would be on the bridge, in the area on the wall right above the engineering station. This set-up shows the engine (warp and impulse) status, although the screen can be set for other engineering layouts, as well.STAR TREK and related, CBS-VIACOM-PARAMOUNT
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This should work perfectly in my upgraded bridge engineering station: [link]
Cool!
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You know, I think you're right.
Beautiful job!
Oh, and feel free to use any of my 'LCARS', if you like. That's why I make them.
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This is beautiful. You should do the updated Enterprise graphic from "Star Trek II". Gorgeous work!
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Thanks. 
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...I'm pretty sure I just came in my pants a little!!
NICE job using the Jefferies cutaway view. And you also left TMP/TNG stuff like "warp cores" out of it! I like how you made the display so it's meant to show up on those larger display screens above the stations.
Except it's not really an "early LCARS," because TOS didn't have anything remotely similar to visual "LCARS." This is just a status display board, the kind that you see all over the TOS Bridge - but it has nothing to do with the Library (Records) Computer. That was a high-tech system which was carried out with voice commands mostly, and would sometimes show a picture or two from the records (the picture of NOMAD, or Harry Mudd's license). In fact, the only station on the Bridge which had a Library Computer Tie-In was Spock's station. You know the drill:
Spock: "Computer."
Computer: *computer sounds* "WORK-ING!"
Then you'd ask it things, and go through calculations with it.
I wrote up the page (still under construction) of the various forms of computer interface that was used in the TOS era over at the LCARS Wiki. [link] )_Interface
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Don't get all technical on me, now.... 
Something I didn't know about the bridge design (until I read the Sketchbook), was that Matt was the FIRST to think of backlit control panels for the bridge stations; "Heat or pressure sensitive", I think they were going to be. So, technically, the LCARS are a logical extension of Matt's design.
Ooh! Now you're a published author, as well! Is there nothing you can't do?!
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Well, technically that means that Matt Jefferies came up with the idea of touch-sensitive control panels...I've never understood how TNG "LCARS" (Library Computer Access...) was used as control panels. How does that work? That's like me using Wikipedia to fly an airplane.
"Ooh, I want to turn RIGHT! I'd better look up Yul Brynner's biography!!"
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As Kirk said,
"Young minds, fresh ideas..be tolerant."
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I don't have to tolerate something if it's retarded and doesn't make any sense.
And when did Kirk supposedly say that? I've heard people quote that online ad nauseum throughout this entire Abrams movie fiasco, but I don't remember Kirk ever saying that in any canon form of Star Trek (any TOS episode).
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From Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, when they first saw the Excelsior in spacedock. Remember, Sulu said it's supposed to have transwarp drive, and Scotty replied, "Aye; and if my grandmother had wheels, she's be a wagon!" To which Kirk replied, "Now now, Mr. Scott...Young minds, fresh ideas..be tolerant."
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Yeah, that's not canon Kirk, so he never really said it.
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What are you, some guy with an actual TOS room, complete with table viewer? Huh?
..........Oh, that's right.....never mind.....
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I call the thing DCARS: Duotronic Computer Access and Retreival System. Good old Daystrom needed a hug
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But it doesn't "access" or "retrieve" anything - it just displays the status of something. It's like the head-up displays on an airplane or space shuttle or ocean liner.
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Not the whole thing, but parts of it probably did. I'm thinking of Spock's visor console with that dial...
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That doesn't "access" or "retrieve" anything, either - it displays sensor information.
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And the big screens between the blinkies and the ceiling?
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Those WERE monitors, and were in fact used to access the ship's records (just like the tri-screens in the briefing room or the small monitors). In episodes like "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" a graphic of Planet Exo III is displayed on one of those overhead monitors, and episodes like "Patterns of Force" showed us a visual record (photograph) of John Gill. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" showed the bridge personnel displaying the medical records of Gary Mitchell and Dr. Dehner; alternately, they could function as communication screens (like in "The Galileo Seven") instead of using the main viewscreen (which could also do all the things that the overhead monitors could).
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Weren't they used in The Cage when the Talosians hacked the Enterprise's computers?
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Yep, I was going to list that as another example, but I figured I had given enough examples to back up my point.
But you can definately see that there was no fancy "LCARS" or "DCARS" or anything like that...just a library computer with records on it (of no special "retrieval" program, and of no unified appearence). And the display screens certainly couldn't (and didn't) access the library computer records.
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Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.
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LOL!! I love that picture...I actually have it as my desktop right now!
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I saw something similar online, and wanted to try my own, without using the standard cut-a-way you can find online; make it a TOS-era type, as it were.
I really think that they should've remastered something like this in engineering in the background, but that's just me..
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Well, I disagree that this should have been in the background in TOS-R or something...Engineering was fine with it's practical and realistic display panels. You don't find huge lighted cross-section displays of an aircraft carrier in it's engineering section, do you? Of course not...it serves no practical engineering purpose, it just looks technical and gives an otherwise crappy engineering set (TNG) a "technical" look to it.
But I could definately see someone pulling this up from the library computer records, like in "Day of the Dove."
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At least a couple of blinking lights on the panel they looked at.
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If you look at the control panel for a 747 or even the space shuttle, the status panels DO have blinking lights that the pilots look at. Same with computer servers and the like...
But one thing's for sure - you DON'T see a big cross-section of an F-16 plastered across the front of its console.
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To quote from another Galaxy (far, far, away):
Don't get all technical on me!
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<3 <3
I LOVE IT!
I want to eat it its so delicious!
or maybe just fav it
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mmm... tastes like liquid crystal...
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