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From: julian@osu-eddie.UUCP (Julian Gomez)
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Subject: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 00:38:31 EDT
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> Has anybody figured out how those doors work?  Do they have limited 
> telepathy, somewhat akin to the limited prescience of the Hitchhiker
> ...

In "The Making of Star Trek", Roddenberry describes how they had a
stagehand sitting around waiting for a cast member to get close
enough, and would then push the button to open the doors.  This
technique makes it pretty easy to keep the doors closed when Spock
has to lean against them.
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	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	The Ohio State University
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