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From: cej@ll1.UUCP (One of the Jones Boys)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 14:35:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 14:35:53 1985
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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.
> -- 
> 	{ucbvax,decvax}!cbosg!osu-eddie!julian

Actually in "The Making of Star Trek" he discribes how they had
stagehands pull the doors open by hand because they couldn't find a
mechanism that could open the doors quick enough.  In the famous
(and grainy) ST blooper reel you can just hear a stagehand yell
"Door's stuck!" before Shatner walks right into the bridge
elevavator door, which he expects to open.
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