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Has anyone considered that the infamous Voyager Sickbay door slides entirely to the left? Please consider the following:
The panel on the right slides LEFT and just behind the left-side panel. (Granted, the right-side panel would have to move �back� a tad before sliding over to the left.)
Next, both doors, now �back to back,� would slide even further to the left, moving entirely into the left-side wall and out of sight.
This would, presumably, occur within a second or so�
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What I was meaning about solid v non-solid... that they are a full on Solid door when CLOSED, but when they 'slide' open - they just don't stay as a door inside the wall, but they collapse in on themselves into the frame of the door!?!
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I don't think any of those explanations work. Look, it's one thing to wonder if the doors collapse in on themselves when they open and what-not, but c'mon: let's just face reality. Why would Voyager's designers put in one set of doors that folds in one way when the others all fold in a different way?
It's a set goof. Those doors aren't functional on the set, they exist as "dressing." It's a goof, the designer should be forced to put false doors in his own home.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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It's probably one of those 'Let's see if any of the fans out there will notice!" situations, like with the TOS communicator wallpanels on the Amargosa Observatory.
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So ... when the turbolift stops, both sets of doors slide into the wall? When the turbolift moves, the interior set somehow latches onto the turbolift and carries on?
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Perhaps that wall (in Sickbay) is seeded with nanotech factories, and the door doesn't open and close so much as it is extruded when closed and consumed when open.
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Where the turbolift doors go is no different from how elevator doors work today. There's a more serious problem than that, though. If the car is round and the shaft is close-fitting as seen in Disaster, how do you put in a flat door? Can't do it without flattening a side, unless you want to argue that turbolift doors are a foot thick, and we know they're not.
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Okay, this is how I have made turbolift doors work in my own drawings, even though it doesn't really coincide with how the doors work on the show. The external set of doors slide into the wall of whatever deck they're on. I have made the internal doors slide into pockets in the wall of the turbocar. Now the reason this doesn't match what we see on screen is because it makes the inner doors curved. On screen, the'yre flat. But it really isn't practical any other way.
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Maybe the doors in the turbolifts are holographic...along with that door in Voyager's sickbay.
But returning to that infamous door, perhaps it slides like the Defiant doors. Granted the doors look like they split in half, could slide to the side.
I hope it's not an inside joke with the set designer though...
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