A few weeks ago, I was approached by the guy that was in charge of creating the Tricorder electronic circuitry for Star Trek: The Next Generation for LCARS tips.

I remember my jaw dropped when I realize his involvement in the Star Trek world.
Most importantly, this event and many similar situation [people coming to me] made me realize that the LCARS community could use a single unified source for LCARS and I kick started the "LCARS Manifesto" mini project where I lay down What little I know about LCARS and the way I had been using it for myself all these while.

I went into the philosophical, programming metaphor and Omega Idea of LCARS to lay down the core idea of the perfect LCARS system.

At this current point in time the articles are set [input are always welcome] but the graphics will be added progressively because, damn it's a lot of graphics! and I want to make sure the graphics get the idea through properly.

I would love to hear inputs from fellow lovers of LCARS on how to best explain what I've describe in graphic form in the time to come.

The LCARS Manifesto
[Warning, this isn't "creating a coherent LCARS Interface" tutorial, it goes deep, so don't say I didn't warn you to put on your philosophical hat :)]