LCARS Database: Why are most information listed in a “structured data sheet” format?
As mentioned, the database should be mainly a perfect simulation of a LCARS interface, and I doubt that e.g. the personal files of the Enterprise would contain trivial facts as the favorite food of the officers in long sentences with nice remarks ([TNG] Episode …). Of course the preference of the one or the other style is a matter of taste, however, especially for technical files about ships etc. the “data sheet” format is very advantageous to present a large number of facts in a clear and easy-to-use way. By the way, many pages contain more or less long prose passages to provide additional information which could not be provided as keywords. For example, the class specifications always contain a summarizing description of the class, and the files of the astronomical and biographical databases are updated in a similar way soon.
