By Captain Pyke | November 7, 2010 - 10:44 pm

Since watching Star Trek: The Next Generation for the first time, we've been huge fans of the LCARS interfaces that have graced the display screens from TNG to Voyager and every movie in-between. Not familiar with LCARS? Sorry, you have to turn in your Trek fan badge at the door. Seriously though, you may not know the acronym, but you most certainly have seen the interface. Short for Library Computer Access & Retrieval System, LCARS is the multi-colored interface that usually has pill-shaped buttons and adorns everything from door panels to helm controls on all 24th century Federation ships. There's also a huge subculture in the Trek community that does nothing but design and recreate LCARS panels and emulates the controls on various modern day devices. We've seen it on jailbroken iPhones, laptops, touchscreen tablets, and Nokia smartphones. Heck, we even threw our hat in the LCARS ring with our PADDed Kindle project.

Now Palm Pre & Pixi owners can have an LCARS app all to their own. Introducing the LCARS Launcher. This simple application gives you a very familiar LCARS display that connects to the various email, phone, texting, GPS, and internet related apps & functions available in webOS. The best part of all though, is that the app is absolutely free. So, if you've wanted a form of the 24th century on your Pre, here's your chance to engage... Yeah, we know, lame. But, who can resist? Check out the site links and a brief demo below.

Check out the LCARS Launcher homepage here.

Visit the LCARS Launcher in the Palm app store here.