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BRUTUS
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Are the sliding doors on star trek hung on tracks and moved like curtains are?

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Sol System
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Er...do you mean in reality or in "reality"? The set features two guys who pull the sides of the door out and push them in on the appropriate cue. I'm somewhat curious as to what alternate method you've envisioned.

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Nim
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I love the simpsons-ep where Nimoy tries to explain that to some drunks in a bar but nobody's interested.

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BRUTUS
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I mean on the set. See, I don't think two guys pull them open and push them closed...I don't know if you were meaning to explain it as simply as that. I think one rope does it....like in a curtain. I was just curious if they used pulleys or what? When I tried sketching it out (didn't spend a heck of a lot of time, and I'm no mechanical genius) it just got so convoluted to make them separate and close on the pull of one rope...but my curtains do that, so it's obviously not complicated. The only other method I can think of is how they achieve it for the little bridge play set...2 toothed rods on a wheel...obviosly, forcing one rod one way forces the other the other way. And they add a spring in this case to make them close automatically...but they don't have that on the set.

Erm...sorry for wasting people's time, I was just curious.

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Malnurtured Snay
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I don't know how they do it. That rod/spring sounds like a good possibility.

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Nim
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How's about the same tech we have in elevator doors, guys?

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Ritten
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Been in a supermarket lately? Nice automatic sliding doors they have.....

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Malnurtured Snay
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I think Brutus means how they got them to work on the set, not how Starfleet has them set up.

The supermarket doors are too sensative, they open if a LEAF blows in front of a sensor. Have you seen the doors on TNG/DS9/VOY? They've got a sense of drama ...

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Sol System
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No need to apologize, Brutus. It's a good question.

But it is two people, unless something has changed in recent years. Unpaid interns, I imagine.

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Masao
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I doubt they're interns. I bet there's some sort of union in Hollywood, like the "International Brotherhood of Pseudoautomatic Sliding Door Operators."

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Aban Rune
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I hope they're union. Otherwise they'd soon find themselves out of a job the first time one of them doesn't pull hard enough and Robert Beltran clunks his noggin.

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Nim
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I suppose there were boys hauling them wheels in the DS9-airlocks too, huh?
And those gates that roll up from the floor, they were pulled up by ropes, huh?

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PsyLiam
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Tsk. It's obvious. The doors are moved by using technology.

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Starbuck
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To paraphrase Mike Okuda... "Quite nicely, thank you."

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Nim
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Ach, he said that about them transporter-compensators too!

He should have a special stamp for that, like the "Find Him And Kill Him".

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