How the heck do the automatic doors work?
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Reeeeally thin font. "If you can read this, the door didn't open properly. Please notify Maintenance."
That by the 24th century, people can just read barcodes.
Doubtful, short of having Cybernetic implants or glasses to read things via AR recognition.
I doubt that is going to happen.
People are still People at the end of the day.
I like to think the door panels themselves are sensors that register body heat, static charge on the skin and floor, air pressure, and feed that data to a processor which determines whether or not to open.
By the 24th century the comm badge would likely also be part of the sensor data for the doors. Including security clearances. Though that brings into question times when say Worf removed his comm badge to do stuff off the books...like beam over and challenge Duras to a duel.
There should be sensor bars right above the door way that does that.
The doors themselves need to be strong and Phaser/Explosive resistant.
Evidently not the ones in conspiracy
One wonders why the doors didn’t open when Geordi approached them
That's more reason to upgrade the doors.Evidently not the ones in conspiracy
Cheap sets if anything else - you could actually SEE how cheap the doors look in that shot
In-universe though, all doors on a starship seem to produce a classic 'whoosh' which is indicative of an airlock seal.
And I think we've seen that even in the case of hull breach, if there is no damage to surrounding doors and the forcefileds aren't working (although they should), the sealed doors would prevent decompression - its a bit different though in case of an actual explosion.
The Conspiracy episode could be more of an outlier than anything else. In VOY and DS9, we hadn't seen doors easily broken through, heck, even the Borg in FC had issues coming through the sickbay door... so I'd imagine its not a huge problem (or the doors have been upgraded since Conspiracy on all ships with a minor swap using transporters and replicators).
That makes more sense. Upgrade the doors.
If you're strong enough of a humanoid to send Commander Riker flying through a door, then you need to upgrade the doors so that they don't break that easily.
Ergo the Borg having issues getting into SickBay.
Or certain facilities within the ship have stronger doors than others.
Take your pick.
I could find a good reason why SickBay & Critical Areas / Rooms need super strong doors while normal quarters don't need that strong of a door.
There are good justifications for each IMO.
Yeah, BUT, we come back to the premise that all inner starship doors seem to produce a vacuum seal effect similar to an airlock from the sound they produce (otherwise, they'd be much quieter)... in which case, that particlular door in Conspiracy don't make sense.
But, I'll give you that its possible certain rooms on the ENT-D at the time didn't have stronger doors.
Most would be on the level of what we saw on VOY and DS9, but in case of some small areas, they weren't given the same durable material - maybe because they didn't see those quarters as needing them?
A Vacuum Seal can be created w/o the door needing to be so strong that it's like a Bank Vault door.
Remember, the doors for Crew Quarters are seemingly very light-weight / thin.
You look carefully at the Holodeck and it's massive doors with inter-locking pieces, those seem to be made to a tougher standard than the usual crew quarters.
Maybe the experiences of the Enterprise-D changed how they designed doors on the Enterprise-E and ships beyond that?
Especially given that hostile boarding actions are a problem and they need stronger internal security on top of what already exists.
Especially given how easily The Borg beamed over onto the Enterprise-D and kidnapped Captain Picard.
On the Galaxy -class, the doors to VIP quarters are made from luxurious bamboo with a veneer of sensor tech. Airlock fittings are standard.
If you think about it, the UT is even more amazing than that. It also renders whatever lingo it is they are speaking in the 24th century back to late 20th, early 21st century English, complete with (presumably) quite era specific colloquialisms. So those UT devices also must have out-of-universe awareness, translating to us.
Its not surprising if accurate.
We know SF has the technology to scan brain-waves, its very possible UT's (commbadges) simply scan the wearer/user brain patterns and adjust to that. It would be fairly simple to have the same tech applied to the doors - then they can open/close based on user's intent (commbadges seem to be 'tuned' to the wearer anyway, so...)
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I'm old enough to remember grocery stores using a pad instead of the IR motion sensors they use now
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