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From: josie@ihuxw.UUCP (Johanna Clementz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 18:10:20 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
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > > 					-- Mark A.
> > > 					...{uw-beaver|fluke}!ssc-vax!adolph
	
	
How 'bout this explanation... 

1.) the doors sense when a person is in the room, and will not
    open until that person says "come" or "come in" or
    something. (We have seen this many times in the series).

2.) the doors use sensors, not in the sides of the doors, but
    in the floor! A foot or two before the door itself, to
    sense approaching weight; ofcourse the sensors would be
    smart enough to know when the person (or whatever) is
    coming toward the door as opposed to passing by it.

			or
			
    Remember the precision sensors that Miranda used to
    "see" with in "Is There No Truth In Beauty"? Perhaps
    the doors use sensors almost as sensitive to tell
    when a person is approaching.

3.) Lastly, the doors do have a mechanism for locking. Perhaps
    Spock just locked the door when he came in, or programmed
    it to lock whenever he entered (he was very upset).

-- 

				Josie Clementz
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
				Naperville, IL
				(...ihuxw!josie)