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*** [[Wil Wheaton]] says that he assigned meanings and functions to the buttons on his LCARS touchscreen. (He ''is'' [[One of Us]].) Years later, when the Enterprise-D set was on tour and open to the public, he was able to sit down at his (character's) console and remember most of the commands he'd invented.

**** The LCARS is an actual interface standard, and people have even written DOS frontends that use it. And also an entire separate distribution of Linux (for the non-Linux-users, that's like a whole different version of Windows), which is not going to just be a "skin" for a Windows-like interface, but will actually implement the real LCARS interface (with touch-screens!). The fake TV future is here!

**** How about a ''fully functional LCARS tricorder app'' for Android? The one concession to Rule of Cool is a somewhat useless mode displaying pictures of the sun and proton/electron output over the past 64 days. (Search for "tricorder" on market.android.com.)

* "[[Lampshade Hanging|Information]]: In the second episode of ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]'', the computer Zen initially does not have any sort of display. When he realizes that "your species requires a visual reference point," he begins flashing lights on one wall in time to his speech."