The ship U.S.S. Voyager : Computers : Index

CONTENTS
This page - scroll	INTRODUCTION
Page 1	COMPUTER CORES. MAIN COMPUTER PROCESSOR. LCARS PANELS. BIONEURAL CIRCUITRY. ISOLINEAR CHIPS. DATABASES.
Page 2	PORTABLE COMPUTERS AND PADDS.
Page 3	DIAGNOSTICS

INTRODUCTION

The computer operating system aboard Voyager and other contemporary Starfleet vessels is LCARS (Library Computer Access and Retrieval System). The integrated network of computer processors, subprocessors, display monitors with interface panels and integrated bioneural circuitry forms Voyager's "nervous system" and provides continuous real-time analysis of the ship's status and almost immediate execution of operational command input. The network, or ODN (stands for optical data network: a system of fibre-optic data-transmission conduits used aboard Federation starships, serving as the nervous system of the ship's computer network) is also designed to allow considerable independent operation of remaining system elements in the event of partial systems failure. Short-range radio frequency data links are available throughout Voyager to provide information transmission to portable and handheld devices such as tricorders and PADDs (PADD is the acronym for "personal access display device").

Richard Daystrom and The Daystrom Institute of Technology - Dr Daystrom pioneered the duotronics and multitronics breakthroughs in computer technology which preceded isolinear optical chips; several mentions in [Voyager]