As a side note to living in 'Star Trek', any of the versions, it always surprised me that the only tools they usually had were the phaser and communicator and maybe someone had a tri-corder for data/analysis. McCoy, if he was along, would have the all-in-one FAK that could fix or cure anything with a single hypo-spray... unless the plot depended on it not working - but nobody else had any emergency medical gear.

So nobody had any sort of 'away team' go-bag or survival equipment with them. I guess the plots need the characters to work out their problems with brain and brawn but having a couple of extra tools would seem prudent. Maybe the future version of an electronic leatherman multi tool? Oh well, they are still fun to watch.

Star Wars sort of was the same way... Let's see, light saber, check. Flowing robes, check. Anything else - nope. Ready to go! It would have made some sense for Luke in the original to at least had some sort of water - being on a desert planet. Maybe I'm thinking about all this way to hard.

Paul -