Star Trek doors,..
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Posted by Gurney Halleck on January 10, 1998 at 01:42:01:
The first time I ever saw Star Trek
was in the late sixties, I guess. I was very
young, but the most striking thing about the show
was the doors on the starship. They
would open and close by themselves. No
one had to touch a door knob or a handle. I think this symbolizes the freedom that we all
long to have. No door will remain closed to us
in the future as long as we have the guts to walk
straight at it. In such a seemingly prosaic thing
as a door Star Trek was able to create an indelible
impression that ultimate freedom through technological
and social progress was within humanity's grasp. Nowadays, however, you rarely see the automatic doors
on DS9, or Voyager. TNG had them, but manytimes
the doors were locked. Is this a subconscious reflection
on society, and the loss of the idealism that we used to have
in the sixties, as it corrupted in the eighties and finally
died in the nineties?
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