[LCARS 24]

Thanks for the interest.

Well, the VOY colors are familiar enough, INS emphasized browns, and for NEM it was blues. About functionality, one thing is the common LCARS panels, consisting mostly of buttons but with vertical dividers with large black squares near the right.

Here, on the LCARS 24 Options menu, each black square acts like a period at the end of a sentence, a mark to denote the end of a section. But also, when a button is pressed it disappears and is replaced by an alternative to that option, in which case the key label of what was chosen and is no longer visible is displayed in 14-point black font to replace the black square to notify you of what you chose. The button to the right of that shows the content of your selection. Then, if you cancel that by choosing what’s already active, the display goes back to how it was, including the black square. So the interface does make sense when you’re using this menu. We haven’t seen it on screen, but I assume that's partially how those panels are supposed to work.

[NCC-73515]

What's the Endgame mode?

[LCARS 24]

Oh. Endgame mode just means making the LCARS colors like those from the future in VOY:　Endgame. Here's the standby screen showing the VOY, INS, and NEM themes, plus the VOY theme in Endgame mode.



Another, more obvious, case of giving meaning not seen on-screen is just having the inline digits of buttons represent key labels, which seems so natural when you see it that it's easy to forget that in Trek they just looked like random digits. In the case of brackets, as in the screens shown above, they are divided into boxes, and each one has a key label so the user knows what key to press to activate something.

[Roysten]

Ha that's awesome, is good to see the colour differences.

[NCC-73515]

I never saw cyan on an LCARS display O.O

[LCARS 24]

Probably not cyan, as in #00FFFF, but shades of cyan in TCARS and maybe one shade on the Prometheus bridge displays and some Endgame displays.

[Saquist]

I like the Relativity but it's not a particularly nice profile.

[Quark]

I couldn't stand the NEM consoles...