2026-02-19 21:45 UTC
@eedly @gparker @jcdvore @halcyon @csilverman @root42 yeah I never got to try the TNG ones, but it was the TOS ones that live in my brain because our high school computing studies teacher had the “Mission Control” one running whenever he spoke long enough to forget to prevent it starting
“Scotty … give me that POWER!”
Its ultimate goal (I felt) was to be a low-CPU simulation of a TV episode generator.
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@eedly@mindly.social 2026-02-19 22:05
@whophd The coolest part of the TNG screensaver is that it used digital assets from the actual show. Many of the LCARS displays on the show were computer monitors stuck behind smoked glass, running Macromind Director animations. When we did the screen saver, Paramount provided us with a ton of Mike Okuda's Director files, and even a few 3D models. Anything in the screen saver that had LCARS displays in it were processed from those original animations. @gparker @jcdvore @halcyon @csilverman @root42