Trek LCARS Android Apps By NSTEnterprises

Hello, I’m the developer NSTEnterprises.

Some of you know me and have been following and using my ✦TREK✦ Apps for years. My apps have been on the Google Play Store since 2014, but are still relatively unknown.

I currently have 22 apps that can change your home screen interface, dialer apps, SMS/MMS texting apps, note apps, notification soundboards, and a lot more. I make the apps completely immersive with the looks and button sounds you love in a few ✦TREK✦ styles.

About Me

I’m a big Sci-Fi fan, and I actually started doing this in 2011. I noticed there wasn’t anything available I wanted and nothing up to my perfectionist standards.

So, I started playing for personal use. Eventually, I got on the Play store to sell the apps as a supplemental income (to justify the time spent on it to my wife). I’m actually amazed at how much I’ve managed to do in just my spare time while having a full-time job, 2 kids, and a house I’m constantly working on.

I dream of my apps taking off enough to allow me to stop my regular job and focus on this full-time. If that happens, you can expect a lot more ✦TREK✦ apps from me, and I’d finally be able to look into making something similar for Windows.

Unfortunately, because I’m pretty hidden by the algorithms, I have to rely on word-of-mouth, and people actually directly looking for something like my apps [and then scrolling for a bit]. So, if you get my apps, reviewing and sharing on social media would really help. I know millions of people would want my apps, but they have to know they exist to get them.

How To Start With My Apps

First, here is my complete list of apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=NSTEnterprises

and more than that on the Amazon App Store: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.treking.treksounds.newBoardpro&showAll=1 (especially the New Trek style)

For the New Trek-style, I had to put the SMS, Notes, and Dialer exclusively on Amazon as it uses the same code as the more popular Total Interface versions and Google doesn’t consider a different UI as a different user experience for their new repetitive content policy.

I recommend starting by changing your home screen/launcher which is more than enough for most, but you can expand on it with the other components.

Pick Your Style

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• TREK: Total Interface
• TREK: Total Interface (Large) – for people without good vision on nimble fingers
• TREK: Trek Total Launcher Theme (+ TREK: Launcher to unlock the icons and extra content) * New Trek style

For more complete immersion, you can add the notification sounds, and matching dialer/SMS/notes apps. It is worth noting that my apps are only available for Android.

Besides wallpaper IOS does not allow for changing of the home screen, icons, or even support widgets. I could make some other apps for IOS, but I find Apple’s imposed limits and app store policies/practices too repressive.

Not Just For Phones…

What’s Coming In The Future

The soonest thing I have coming up is another Total Launcher theme. I’ve been talking with Andrew Jarvis (the designer of the Star Trek: Picard LCARS).

He has given me some of his work and input on his vision of how to use the colours and lots of other tips for perfecting it. He will collaborate with me giving me feedback and some materials, of course without violating the contract or sharing anything owned by Paramount/CBS.

Andrew Jarvis did a fantastic job with updating LCARS and is happy to have fans enjoy it. If it’s popular, more components may follow. This will be similar to my prior collaboration with Scott Nakada, the very talented designer of the updated LCARS for the fan film Star Trek: Renegades.

Disclaimer

It’s obvious in the app descriptions, but I’ll mention it here as well, my apps are not official or licenced. They are fan-made at a perfectionist level that doesn’t exist even in licenced apps. I don’t use any trademarks, logos, or registered intellectual property.

Of course, not using trademarked names is also why I have trouble being discovered. Perhaps many of you had an app before that used properties like those that were eventually removed and you lost your purchase because the developer didn’t know any better.

Bad apps can survive the Play Store for many years though because nobody with a licence sees them as competition to complain to CBS and have them removed.

My apps are a parody. As you see in their descriptions, I roast them a little about how I make complete gibberish sci-fi interfaces actually functional and useful. It actually is like some opposite parody where the interfaces seem to make themselves look stupid, then I make them smart. (This freedom of speech is also important to the existence of my apps.)

Well, that’s it. I hope you enjoy and share my apps. Most things have directions or a FAQ in the description, but I’m always available for support at newstartrekapps@gmail.com

Please also follow my Facebook page for chances to vote on upcoming apps, their appearance, and learn when they become available: https://www.facebook.com/Not.Star.Trek.LCARS.Apps/

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You can find all the apps and more at the following links…