Out-takes! I love 'em!

In the filming of all of the incarnations of Star Trek, the same thing keeps happening. The doors. Gene Roddenberry was unhappy with all the actual automatic door openers they tried because they didn't operate fast enough, so he had stage hands behind the doors operating them manually. They hear the cue, then yank open the door, fast! There are miles of footage, some of which I've seen on Star Trek anniversary specials and that sort of thing, of Kirk, Picard, Riker, Mulgrew, and at least half of the rest of the various cast members uttering an exit line, then turning around and crashing into the door. Stage hands missed their cue.

It's gotta hurt, but at the same time I can't help but rolling on the floor, howling. Light-years funnier than a pie in the face.

Don Firth