Red Shirts Always Die? - The Trek BBS
Mar 1, 2015 · Gold shirts die 5% of the time, blue shirts 7% of the time, and red shirts 17% of the time. Definitely more than gold or blue, but still a far cry from "always" or "usually." It's even something of a misnomer to say that red shirts "often" die, since it's still less than 1/6 of the time.
Spoilers Did Picard finally ''right the ship'' with Picard season 3?
Feb 18, 2023 · Redshirts Always Die... I wrote three articles for them back in 2015. I'm so glad I didn't stick around with them. Eventually, after the premiere of Disco, I'd have been locking horns with them like there was no tomorrow if I'd stayed. For those wondering, I did my own research here and my sources aren't dripping in bias.
Stormtrooper vs. Redshirt Wired Poll | The Trek BBS
Sep 4, 2009 · If it's a group of redshirts versus a group of Stormies, at least one redshirt will die or at least hit, just to demonstrate the threat (the reason why redshirts always suffer, to demonstrate said threat, in this case the Stormtroopers). Now, if the redshirts are named, after this point, they'll probably win, cause they're the good guys.
Funniest Deaths in Star Trek - The Trek BBS
Jan 9, 2024 · "THE APPLE" and "THE CHANGELING" both had four redshirts die... each! I think the episode with the most deaths is "OBSESSION". (Rizzo and the two guards in the teaser, one of Garrovick's team, and an unseen crewman McCoy mentioned after the creature got aboard.) "THE MAN TRAP" is up there, too.
Was 'Skin of Evil' an undignified/meaningless death for 'Tasha Yar'?
Jan 9, 2009 · I recently watched 'Yesterday's Enterprise'. Seeing Tasha again reminded me of 'Skin of Evil' when she died. Was being killed by a lump of black slime really what Denise Crosby had in mind when she decided she wanted to leave Star trek? Was it a dignified death? Tasha Yar always said she wanted...
Poll - Was Olson the stupidest redshirt? | The Trek BBS
Nov 20, 2024 · I’m tempted to say there’s always a stupider redshirt. Then again, there’s also always a smarter one.
Star Trek TOS Re-Watch | Page 72 | The Trek BBS
Oct 8, 2021 · "Where No Man Has Gone Before" For reference, I watched the Alternate Version of this episode. The one that convinced NBC to pick up Star Trek as a series. The credits are different, the theme going with the credits is different, and there are title cards at …
Why are basic infantry tactics almost never employed in Star Trek?
Apr 22, 2012 · How often does Kirk really beam down in anticipation of conventional hostilities? His redshirts tend to get killed by godlike superbeings that smite from above, or by traitors or people with unpredictable behavior patterns; infantry tactics won't help against that.
The Red Shirt Syndrome - The Trek BBS
Jan 17, 2017 · If we're talking about redshirts who have been killed/found dead in general, not just ones assigned to the Enterprise, the count would be pretty high. Consider ships like Constellation, Intrepid, Defiant, Exeter, Lexington, Excalibur, etc.There were scores of redshirts killed from those vessels as depicted on the show.
How did viewers respond to the death of Tasha Yar at the time?
Apr 30, 2017 · Also, was recently watching "We'll Always Have Paris." Immediately follows "Skin Of Evil", Denise Crosby still credited, the first thing that happens is time starts rewinding... had I been watching it back then, I feel like my immediate conclusion would have been that they were going to use this time-rewinding gimmick to un-kill Tasha.