MikeJF posted:

For readouts and graphics, TNG did occasionally, but it was much more complex, since for the most part moving stuff was bluescreened onto the consoles. Stuff like this

https://i.imgur.com/Nm6W1Gf.mp4

Or even just them sitting around at the back consoles reading a databank entry like this, would largely be bluescreen.



DS9 being later could set things up with integrated flat-front CRTs where they could have readout loops running in the background. TNG could've started to do that in the last few seasons, I suppose, but the sets were already designed, and it wasn't really possible to put a CRT inside those big flat black-glass bridge stations. Cardassian consoles were specifically set up to be able to hide CRTs.