Starfleet Analytics -- looking at the issue of Red-Shirt fatalities on Star Trek, complete with a PowerPoint presentation.
(A very amusing article, only marred by misrepresenting the colors -- yellow is Command, and red is Support; Engineering and Security are both red-shirt professions.)
(via Neatorama)
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Yes, the friday GM showed us all that, and yes geeks that we are noticed the mistake right away. :)
Though this was my Favourite bit:
Besides not beaming down, another factor that showed to increase the survival rate of the red-shirts was the nature of the relationship between the alien life and captain Kirk. When Captain Kirk meets an alien woman and "makes contact" the survival rate of the red-shirted crewmen increases by 84%. In fact, out of Captain Kirks' 24 "relationships" there were only three instances of red-shirt vaporization.The caveat to this is when Captain Kirk not only meets the local alien women, but also starts a fight among alien locals. The combination of these events has led to the elimination of 4 crewmembers (3 red-shirts).
One of my favorite episodes of TOS (for a variety of reasons) is "The Apple," where they planned to have so many redshirt casualties, the landing party had to actually beam down in two groups.
All those typos in the bar graph episode titles are rather disturbing, too. Still, I suppose that doesn't affect the stats.
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