Headscratchers / Star Trek S1 E25 "The Devil in the Dark"

• Master Engineer Scott can't hack together a little cooling pump? Really?
  • Depends on the parts available, the requirements of the cooling equipment, and he does jury rig something that buys them 48 hours. No matter how good you are about hacking things together on the fly, there are always limits to what can be done; especially if you are looking for a long term solution.
  • Scotty notes that he hasn't seen a reactor like it in twenty years, with an implication that it was obsolete even then. Try hooking a modern cell phone into a Commodore 64 smoothly with available parts .