More like plastic sleds. In fact, they look so much like repurposed sleds that I suspect that's what they might actually be.
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You win a cookie, Mister System.
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A quick check of Insurrection shows that the Voyager corridors outside of Janeway's quarters (which were Picard's in the first place) are used in two walk-and-talk shots on the way to the turbolift. They were simply repainted, and inserts were added at each wall segment junction to make the corridor look a little more like the E-E. All the other corridor shots were on the usual E-E sets.
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: More like plastic sleds. In fact, they look so much like repurposed sleds that I suspect that's what they might actually be.
Wait, which doors are these? From which movie?
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I always thought those doors were kinda cool(as I'm sure B&B did, since they describe most things as being "kinda cool"), but they don't seem the most efficient doors to be using at the single most time when you really need the doors to open quickly. Imagine it, the ship's collapsing around you and you're standing there waiting for the bleedin door to finish leaning down so you can get in an escape pod and get off the damned ship.
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That's gotta be a sled. I tried looking for that kind online, and found several that were close, but no exact matches. Certainly gives me some ideas though. Don't be surprised to find some door(s) in my show resembling these.
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A sled with a center ridge but no side runners?
With a silly keel like that, and with such great beam, I'd think this is a pseudo-aerodynamic cover for an automobile ski box. Or then a toboggan for the truly obese.
Either way, I could see the utility if the pod happens to land on water, snow or other less than solid surface...
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But the escape pods themselves don't incorporate those doors, do they?
Despite what I said above and again, I couldn't find any exact matches, but I fear Timo may be right with the car carrier idea. For one thing, being fiberglass or whatever, they'd be rugged enough to come down and have people walk up them. Of course, the price difference is like $5-20 (US) for plastic toboggans vs. $200-$600 (US) for aerodynamic car carriers which would substantially reduce the economic factor.
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I know I'm speaking English...and I can see my words....
Maybe I'm Xaronna or something.
THEY. ARE. SLEDS. I cannot remember the book or article or whathaveyou I read it in, but it was one of the guys who built the sets (Zimmerman, mayhaps) & he said they were sleds.
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