TOS s1e18 “Arena,” s1e25 “The Devil in the Dark,” and s2e13 “Obsession”
What ya’ gonna pick?
Red Shirt: “Not me, not me, pleeeaase not me…”
Do pants pockets exist in the 24th-century? Was that sartorial knowledge lost to time?
I think maybe utility belts were just in fashion at the time. 'Cause who doesnt want to feel like Batman, always at the ready?
And what would you carry in there, anyway? You don’t need money or credit cards and the computer can voice ID anyone in the rare instance that authorization is actually ever needed. Doors all open automatically, so you don’t need keys. What does that leave? Maybe menstrual products, so let’s assume everyone’s using cups.
Phaser, tricorder, medical tricorder, flashlight (if not the wrist strap type), cordrazine, snacks. Pretty standard stuff.
A lot of that is pretty bulky, so it goes on the utlity belt or shoulder strap.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an away team eat snacks, and if they were eating them, it’s not at all clear how they carried in the field. I’ll have to do more research.
“Kirk to transporter room 1. Send down a couple of Twinkies. Direct-to-stomach materialization.”
It’s not until DS9 that you hear about “combat rations”
And those just looked like protein bars
