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I think it opens like a door like on a wardrobe but inwards.
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perhaps the right side only opens a little bit, requiring a relatively thin chief medical officer.
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My guess is that it either swings open or curves.
I don't recall seeing it in use, nor ever noticed it before. It's pretty bad space filler though. Since the doors require two people pulling them open at the sides I'm not sure how'd they do it.
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Oh come on! If they can make mall-doors open by themselves, they should be able to scale it down and put it on any door. When Nimoy guest starred in "Simpsons", he once said, like, "when I worked on Trek, they actually had two guys that pulled the doors open everytime we passed." I think that implies that they have moved on in the door-departement. But I can't confirm it as I don't know anything about Trek set design.
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Yes. They now have ONE guy who opens the doors. With a hand crank or something similar.
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Haven't we already been over this? IIRC, they use a pulley system to open the doors, requiring only one person to operate them. As I have said, I seem to remember this from the Star Trek episode of Levar Burton's Reading Rainbow. (As I have also said, don't laugh!)
On that particular set of doors though. Whew. Who designed that set? Didn't they see the problem there when they began building it? Or maybe they look at it the way my high school's stage advisor looks at it: "Hell, the cast ain't usin' it, and it's not like anyone's going to notice unless they look hard."
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There was also an episode of Primetime Live back in 89 or 90 that showed the pully deal. And I think you cn catch it also in some of the TOS bloopers.
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On the "25th Anniversary Special" hosted by Shatner and Nimoy, they showed several bloopers of TOS where the cast were bumping into doors that were not opened in time!
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I remember that. That blooper show was better than most fo the episodes :0)
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Invading Borg [Walking to door]: You will be assimil-OOFF!! Fucking set designers!
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