Why did Mr. Scott, the Chief Engineer on the USS Enterprise, always need more power?
Because everything takes power. We sometimes forget this because power is often easy to come by. Need some electrical power to run your stereo, your TV, your air conditioner, your refrigerator, and whatever else you can think of? You just plug them into the outlet on the wall. But that power has to come from somewhere. It has to come from a power plant that is converting some other form of energy into electricity. If the plant stops working, you don’t get any power delivered to your house and you can’t do anything. On a spacecraft, when the engines stop working they aren’t generating any power. This means they can’t do those important things like filter the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, keep the inside of the spacecraft at a comfortable temperature, and so on. Mr. Scott always needed more power because everything Captain Kirk asked him to do took power, but in an emergency he rarely had a fully functioning spacecraft to generate the power with.
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