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From: rabson@harvard.ARPA (David Rabson)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 14:40:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 14:40:09 1985
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> "No beach to walk on..."
> 
> Has anybody figured out how those doors work?  Do they have limited 
> telepathy, somewhat akin to the limited prescience of the Hitchhiker
> elevators?  The episode that triggered this is "The Naked Time", in which
> a sobbing Spock enters a room, the door closes and he leans back against
> it.  Why doesn't it reopen and dump him out into the corridor on his
> butt?
> 

No inconsistency at all.  The doors work on a very simple principle:
audio signal.  They only open when someone in their vicinity say
"wshhhh."   They close on the same signal.