Nah. It's a portal to someplace else ENTIRELY.
We come out of the replicator on the Starship Enterprise, or something.
I thought it was an if/then statement.
Like, if LGBT people come out of the closet, then the AS people won't be so crowded in there.
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"