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The Library Computer Access and Retrieval System (LCARS) Flash animations used in these pages is a resource from the original layouts used in the Star Trek:
The Next Generation,
Deep Space Nine,
Voyager.
The Motion Pictures - Star Trek: Generations, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis.
The LCARS originals were created by Michael Okuda and his team. No harm or infringement is intended by me in using their layout. A few of the M.S.D.'s have been based from the diagrams in Star Trek The Magazine publication.
The following LCARS animations which have been made by me, all started in 1999, now updated using Flash MX.
Master Situation Display
The Master Situation Display or acronym term M.S.D. as it is better known in Trek technobabble circles appears in Federation starships. The M.S.D. is a large, wall-mounted computer display either in engineering and on the bridge. These displays featured a large cutaway diagram of the vessel, and was used to provide a detailed monitoring overview of the ship's status. For Example, The USS Enterprise-D had its M.S.D. in engineering, while starships such as USS Voyager, USS Defiant, and USS Enterprise-E all featured their displays on the bridge. M.S.D.'s for Constitution-class starships could be loaded up from the computer. The first M.S.D. was created for the sets of the Enterprise-D. According to the Star Trek Encyclopaedia, it included a number of in-jokes, including "the official USS Enterprise duck, the ship's mouse, a Porsche, a DC-3 airplane, the Nomad space probe, and the hamster on a treadmill that was alleged to be the true source of power for the ship's warp engines." See if you can find them below. To date the only Star Trek series starships that hasn't had a large M.S.D. of some sort is the Enterprise NX-01.
Those Star Trek Fans that would like to have these on their windows desktop which will run on MS Vista amd Win 7 as a screen-saver should just press the icon
, which will
then start the download zipped screensaver to your hard drive to what-ever folder you wish, once saved then opened, click to run and install,
it will then self extract and load the screen saver onto your PC Drive C system and place it in your screen saver folder. Please also ensure that you have the latest
version of Flash player, which can be obtained
here.
Master Systems Display.
Do not get confused with the Master Systems Display also known as a M.S.D. The Master System Display again is a graphical control console used by Starfleet personnel in main engineering of such vessels as the Galaxy Class starships. M.S.D. of this type were built from the video display table for Starfleet Command in Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home, and for obvious reasons, production personnel nicknamed them the 'Pooltable'.
To return to the LCARS Screens please click here:
To give you an insight in the intensity of each Flash Movie I have labelled them as follows:
'Click on pictures to view animations'
or for a quick random album view please click
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| LCARS Master Situation Display's |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 1 Nemesis Enterprise E Master Situation Display  |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 2 Enterprise D Master Situation Display |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 3 USS Enterprise Galaxy Class MSD NCC1701D |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 4 Enterprise C Master Situation Display (Idea from TNG Technical Manual) |
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M.S.D. No 5 Enterprise B Master Situation Display (Idea's from Star Trek Generations & TNG Sketch Book The Movies) |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 6 Enterprise A Master Situation Display (Star Trek Original Series Naked Now) |
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M.S.D. No 7 Voyager Master Situation Display (Star Trek Magazine March 1997) Additional material from Janet's Star Trek Voyager Site www.star-trek-voyager.fsnet.co.uk |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 8 Defiant Master Situation Display |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 9 Defiant Bridge Master Situation Display II |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 10 Equinox Master Situation Display (Reworked from Star Trek Magazine) |
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M.S.D. No 11 Prometheus Master Situation Display |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 12 Akira Master Situation Display (Idea from Star Trek Magazine) |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 13 Steamrunner Master Situation Display |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 14 Oberth Class Master Situation Display (TNG: Science Vessel VICO - Hero Worship)
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 15 |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 16 Yellowstone Class Master Situation Display (Voyager: Non Sequitur) |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 17 S.S. Raven Master Situation Display (Voyager: Dark Frontier) |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 18 NX-01A Master Situation Display (Voyager: Hope and Fear)
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LCARS Master System Display's |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 1 Enterprise D Master System Display (TNG Remember Me) |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 2 Enterprise E Master System Display (Insurrection) |
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| LCARS M.S.D. No 3 DS9 Master System Display Operations Table |
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'Click on pictures to view animations'
Questions related to my Flash Animations
Can I have permission to use your LCARS Flash for my own Star Trek site?
In short, no. When I started out making my site, it took me a long time to master Flash animations and each one takes a long time to compile. All other animated gifs and movies can be downloaded.
Although I have no real way to prevent you from using my Flash.swf files from my site.
However, if you want your site to have a look of originality, then I recommend you learn how to build them.
Can you send me the source Flash files you used?
No, I cannot, as these are an in-house resource and I will not and cannot afford to share them.
Enterprise NX-01 Computer Screens
The Enterprise NX-01 has integrated image pre-LCARS and Duotronics Touch Computer Screens.
To see more of these and view the animations 'Click on the picture'.
'Click on pictures to view animations'
Last edited by Adge - October 2010
