Object

Sickbay Entry Doors

A pair (often described as a human-height threshold or double-leaf) of heavy composite sliding sickbay doors set flush into the Sickbay bulkhead: matte/pale metallic panels with narrow sightlines, illuminated call buttons, hydraulic seals and automatic sensors. They open and close on cue to admit medical staff, reinforcements, or visitors and function narratively as a threshold that frames vulnerability and staged emotional beats (e.g., Picard, Pulaski, Troi).

3 appearances

Purpose

To control access to Sickbay and adjoining wards: permitting rapid entry and egress for medical teams and security while providing an immediate, secure barrier for patient containment and quarantine.

Significance

The doors act as a narrative hinge — they enable command and security to intervene, intensify the standoff by sealing spaces, and symbolize institutional containment of otherness. Their opening interrupts violence; their closure enforces confinement orders, raising stakes and dramatizing the conflict between protective instinct and Starfleet procedure.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S2E13 · Time Squared

Face to Face with the Future

The sickbay entry doorway functions as the physical threshold where Picard halts, Troi appears, and movement is choreographed; it frames entrances and exits and concentrates emotional beats into a single staging moment that punctuates the confrontation.

Before: Open enough for Picard to stand paused on the lip while Pulaski and P2 are inside.

After: Used as Picard’s exit point after he orders Troi to remain; Troi later occupies the space by entering fully.

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S2E13 · Time Squared

Fractured Reflection — Picard Relinquishes

The Sickbay entry doorway frames the opening beat — Picard pauses on its threshold, both literally and symbolically weighing whether to enter the intimate space where his double lies. Troi appears through the same aperture, and Picard leaves through it after delegating care, making the doorway a physical marker of withdrawal and staging for emotional beats.

Before: Open enough for Picard to pause in the aperture; functionally a threshold between command areas and medical containment.

After: Remains as the point of Picard's exit and Troi's entrance; continues to serve as a boundary between command and clinical space.

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S2E13 · Time Squared

Sickbay Ultimatum: Doubt as Command Threat

The Sickbay Entry Doorway frames the opening beat: Picard hesitates on its threshold, gauging Pulaski and P2 before entering. The doorway functions as a physical membrane between command decisions and clinical containment, concentrating the emotional pivot of the scene.

Before: Closed/open at the approach line with Picard pausing at the threshold, functioning normally as an entrance point.

After: Remains a staging boundary; Picard exits through it after delegating bedside supervision to Troi.

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