kengr

I just want to note that the basic idea of the show makes a lot of sense.

You have a sortie vehicle (in real life, probably something suborbital which can be anywhere on Earth in about ninety minutes) which goes in first to evaluate the situation. It carries basic rescue equipment and a communications center. Those on the sortie vehicle call the details back to base.

There, a fast transport loads the appropriate modular cargo pod and heads out. (What if the particular emergency requires equipment not already loaded in a specific pod? You'd have to mix and match, slowing things. The show should also have had a medical pod, which would have been an entire hospital, complete with personnel. :-)