Red Shirts

[Poltargyst]

Not sure why people are talking like the curse of the red shirt has been disproven. Clearly more red shirts die than any other one color thereby making them the most lethal color to be wearing. In fact it looks about 50/50 red shirt/any other color. Curse of the red shirt PROVEN.

 

[Elder Knight]

Bill Cosby, back when he was funny rather than tragic:

"British calls head, it's tails. Settlers win. All right, settlers say, that during the war, they will wear any color clothes they want to, shoot from behind the rocks and trees, says your team must wear red and march in a straight line."

 

[Nerys Myk]

Let us not forget the FIRST time Spock wore a red shirt, he died.

A white shirt and a red jacket.

Thus starting the Red Jacket Curse. (everybody that died in the movies was wearing a red jacket).

David's last thought: "I'm safe. I'm not wearing red."

 

[Brie]

The problem with this thread is that red shirts only died in 13 episodes (and fewer red shirts died than there are posts in this thread so far).

If we include the pilots, here are the casualties from TOS (by episode and uniform color)...

Oddly enough, it seems that the idea that red shirts died a lot in TOS is based on people assuming red shirts died a lot in TOS. Watching the show doesn't effect this preconceived idea for most people because everyone is constantly repeating it.

I'd have no problem wearing a red shirt on the original Enterprise based on the data (though taking a vacation during the second season wouldn't be a bad idea).

I'm going to kindly say False, 25 red shirts die (quoted right from a star trek magazine I'm holding at this very moment)

 

[Brie]

hope this helps a little.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I see your super expert star trek magazine and raise you a star trek wiki!

http://star-trek.answers.wikia.com/wiki/How_many_red_shirts_died_in_star_trek

 

[Brie]

I see your super expert star trek magazine and raise you a star trek wiki!

http://star-trek.answers.wikia.com/wiki/How_many_red_shirts_died_in_star_trek

Ah nice catch, lol the numbers just keep raising!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

They are all doomed.

Even Scotty, though it took him a few centuries.

 

[golddragon71]

Let us not forget the FIRST time Spock wore a red shirt, he died.

A white shirt and a red jacket.

Thus starting the Red Jacket Curse. (everybody that died in the movies was wearing a red jacket).

sometimes all you need is a red collar just look what happened to Midshipmen Peter Preston

 

[Cyke101]

My #1 most whatever red shirt death is actually a red skirt death: Yeoman Thompson getting crushed to death in cuboctahedron form, in "By Any Other Name."

That's mine as well. That death just verged into Twilight Zone territory and scared the crap out of me.

While watching Into Darkness, I winced when Kirk told Pike, "I've never lost a crew member before!"

"Now you've done it," I thought, especially for more recent Trek movies that tend to be trope-conscious. Sure enough, a hull breach sucked out at *least* a dozen red shirts and other assorted colors.

 

[F. King Daniel]

They are all doomed.

Even Scotty, though it took him a few centuries.

He first died in "The Changeling", and it was a worthy redshirt death, too.