LCARS refers to Starfleet Star Trek: The Next Generation-era computers, the Library Computer Access and Retrieval System. The term was coined by writer Dorothy Fontana in "Encounter at Farpoint," the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was used as an acronym in the headers of some graphic computer displays and eventually was accepted as the name of the operating system of the ship's computer. LCARS also refers to the distinctive graphic style of Star Trek: The Next Generation- era Starfleet control panels designed by Mike Okuda. Other contributing designers to the Enterprise-E panels included Doug Drexler, Wendy Drapanas, Geoffrey Mandel, Anthony Fredrickson, James Van Over, Shawn Baden, and Denise Okuda.