I gave the computer interface system on Enterprise a bit of my attention when I saw "Fight or Flight" again last night and it would appear that the GUI is rather funkier-looking than I think most of us previously gave it credit for being.

Interestingly, UPN's Enterprise site ( http://www.upn.com/shows/enterprise/entFrameset.html ) launched with a fairly close emulation of it. The system that's actually in use is rather similar, with window "titles" listed vertically in coloured bars to the left into which assorted coloured circles kinda arbitrarily sit about. Squares tend to be the labelled buttons and are grouped by color and stacked to the right. They look rather TOS-ish, albeit in a rather different palette.

Colours also seem to be rather neat. Yes, there's lots of purple and pink and that may not float everyone's boat, but there's some nifty kinda golden orange and light green too, from the monitors that I've seen. There also seem to be less monitor-to-monitor variation in terms of palette than the classic Okudagrams, so in other words it looks more like a modern network pumping out a uniformly-regulated feed from a central server rather than a collection of hardware.