• OpenStars@startrek.website
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    9 months ago

    Wouldn’t that be funny if like, someone splashed water (or coffee?) on their shirt and while changing it (and thus it was off), managed to survive the horror that killed everyone else?

    And then did it again, and again, and again - until eventually they realized that it was literally a fundamental law in the universe that redshirts die, not just bc they are security and thus the first line of defense, but literally because they wear red shirts!?

    TNG explored that thought I suppose, several times, especially with the Moriarty story arc.

    I just love thinking about things like that :-P.

    In the case of redshirts, it would be unethical to test the premise empirically though.

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      9 months ago

      In the case of redshirts, it would be unethical to test the premise empirically though.

      Experimenting on their transporters clones however…

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        9 months ago

        TOS security were red shirts. TNG rearranged the colours and made command red to try to kill the red shirt meme

        When people talk about red shirts dying they are referring to the original series colour scheme

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          9 months ago

          I thought they changed the command to red because Patrick Stewart looked better in it?

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          9 months ago

          Oh, so that’s why I was confused coming from STO and watching the new movies and show.

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      9 months ago

      The uniform changes in The Wrath of Khan led directly to the death of Spock.

      And Scotty was able to dodge the Reaper’s hand for all that time because he’s just that awesome.

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        9 months ago

        Scotty is definitely an aberration. If someone did live inside the Matrix or holodeck, it would be quite difficult to prove, having to jump all the way from one method of thinking (peak) through a huge local minimum all the way to the next peak, without benefit of smaller steps to help. In this case, what I mean is that “redshirts often die” is itself only a first order approximation of the real underlying truth: that there is a main cast of characters, a secondary cast that may repeat, and then the redshirts who are literally fated to die. He do be just THAT awesome, yes!

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