Away team members always die

[Warp Zero]

Whenever there's some new guys on the away team or at the helm they are always killed off somehow. Do you guys notice this too?

 

[BillJ]

Whenever there's some new guys on the away team or at the helm they are always killed off somehow. Do you guys notice this too?

It's funny. I haven't noticed this and I've been watching for thirty-eight years!

 

[Maurice]

Nearly 48 years since the show came on the air and we never noticed!

. . .

Of course we noticed. Hence the "redshirts" meme.

How many helmsman bit the dust? Name one.

And they weren't Away Teams. They were Landing Parties.

 

[MacLeod]

Welcome to the world of TV tropes

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedShirt

 

[Silvercrest]

I think the OP is putting you on.

 

[Maurice]

If so, a mod should issue a priority one spanking.

 

[Armored Saint]

ELAAN: Someone talked about spanking?

 

[Warp Zero]

That's the word I was thinking of. And Gary Mitchell was the helmsman who died, though not on a landing party!

 

[Silvercrest]

You were thinking of spanking? Tell us more!

 

[1001001]

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