Object
Mariposa Cloning Laboratory Doors
A pair of heavy, industrial steel doors that seal the Mariposa cloning chamber. Their surfaces carry smoke-black streaks and impact dents; robust gaskets rim each leaf and a recessed control pad sits in the jamb. When breached or cycled open, acrid smoke and a sour, sterile tang pour through the gap, announcing a containment failure. Crew members shove past them, weapons raised, and the sightline they reveal — half-formed human replicas — instantly converts private horror into an explosive confrontation. The doors’ battered condition and the way characters react to their opening communicate recent violence and urgent danger.
2 appearances
Purpose
To seal and provide controlled access to individual cloning chambers—maintaining environmental containment, allowing technicians to open units for observation or retrieval, and serving as the mechanical interface to the replication apparatus.
Significance
Acts as the story's decisive threshold: opening one converts dread into visceral horror by revealing developing duplicates, prompts Riker's defensive shooting and Pulaski's grim assent, and becomes the focal point for Granger's armed intervention—thereby catalyzing the ethical and physical standoff over bodily autonomy and control of the cloning process.
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