Kotaku confuses me sometimes. I know you have different writers with different opinions, but one week we have an article saying a game is bad for over-sexualizing female characters, the other we have an article saying a game should have more of that. I don't know what's right or wrong anymore :p and is that really…

its the age of feminism, you cant release anything offending or even cartoonish offending ever again! fun is over. go home. we live in times where even lara croft isnt allowed to be a campy unrealistic nerd sex fantasy anymore.

Personally, I could care less either way and have zero opinions in regards to what is the cause of global warming. Some, such as myself, like it hot!

Oh yes, because making the world a cleaner place by just generally cleaning up our messes and providing sources of alternative energy is the same thing as bone marrow transplants failing as a cancer treatment.

This is what I don't get about all of the people who try to throw out global warming. Sure, you might not…

who told you that? the oil man?

ROadkill666111 is a Fanboy and a tool. Don't give him any attention.

Other than Roddenberry, Okuda is my real hero from Star Trek. I feel he is really under-appreciated. Not only did he do a huge amount of design work that really sold the show, but he took on the monumental task of trying to make the Star Trek science make sense, and given what had happened before, and the demands of…

Star Trek user interfaces also have a tenancy to explode. I see no one has copied THAT design element.

Wait. Wasn't it 2001 that invented the iPad?

I smell an Apple lawyer

I remember in a Voyager episode ("Year of Hell"), Tuvok was blinded, so he activated a tactile interface on his LCARS display. As I recall, bumps raised out of the display, allowing him to use it.

It seems to me that the Enterprise controls represent a mid-way point between a space shuttle cockpit and LCARS. Which makes sense.

And an aeroplane is a mechanical version of a bird, so the Wright Brothers....

It was designed to be visible in the background. I thought LCARS was a great example of an interface that looks functional as a background element in a TV show. That it in fact isn't terribly functional in real life is almost beside the point.

herein lies the weakness of the JJ Abrams films: they are ostensibly a "re-imagining" of the original series ... and the original series is the wellspring from which all of iconic production design, set decoration, props, sound effects, visual effects come from - yet what made the original series great is always…

And all of a sudden I understand what Windows 8 wants to be (rounded edges by Windows 10? Or does Apple have a copyright on that as well).

You can't do any of that. This summer should have taught us all. Apple owns the patents to everything Gene Roddenberry's shop ever conceptualized. You'll just get sued for billions if you do any of this.

Lesson two: dont let Deanna Troi sit at the helm..ever. Both times she gets that chance it goes badly for the ship. Once she runs into a planet, once into another ship, though granted that second time was under orders(eventually shown to be stupid orders since it had little effect).

As a functional interface LCARS just takes up alot of space. It's not really suited for handheld displays like 3~5" smart phones or even 10" ipads. The Enterprise (show) interface is very minimal AND practical. No need to take up 25% of the screen when you only need 5% to display options.

Lesson from Star Trek: Generations - don't display your shield modulation frequency out in the open!