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From: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
Message-ID: <606@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 12:09:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 12:09:16 1985
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In article <3108@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes:
>> 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.
>
>I heard the story as it was actually two stagehands who openned the doors
>manually.  Supposedly, there are many bloopers when only one door opens
>or something.
>
Correct, the doors were basically just sliding wooden doors (I
visited the set in 1969).  After watching the blooper reel in which
the doors don't open on cue, it absolutely amazes me that the actors
could have the confidence to just stride briskly up to the doors
and walk through.

Of course, in the Jack the Ripper episode, the bridge door
doesn't open, and Kirk is able to stop himself in time, so obviously
the Enterprise crew and the Enterprise doors are in a two-way
telepathic link using brain implants provided by the not-really-Sirius
Cybernetics Corporation.

	Mike
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