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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 12:15:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 12:15:00 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
> 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?

These are no ordinary doors.  Two crewmen operate the doors from behind
the bulkheads.  With 430 men and women aboard, that means that there
would be about 215 automagic doors operational aboard the big E at any
one time.  Fewer, when principal characters are delivering dialogue on
the bridge.
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