In a word, "Fascinating."
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In a word, "Fascinating."
Twelve crew died in WNMHGB, and we don't know the uniform colors of 9 of them.
The cited number of deaths in the graphic totals 43, which is exactly 10 percent of the crew. If correct, that means the Enterprise was decimated, according to the original definition of the word. And that doesn't even count the unseen 9 in WNMHGB.
Kirk is credited with a Vulcan romantic interest? Not in TOS.
The cited number of deaths in the graphic totals 43, which is exactly 10 percent of the crew. If correct, that means the Enterprise was decimated, according to the original definition of the word. And that doesn't even count the unseen 9 in WNMHGB.
Kirk is credited with a Vulcan romantic interest? Not in TOS.
Spock
They spelled Kelvan as Kevlan (like Kevlar).
Did the Enterprise travel back in time on 5 separate occasions? I only remember:
1. The Naked Time - when the engines imploded
2. Tomorrow is Yesterday - pulling away from the black star
3. Tomorrow is Yesterday - accelerating to the Sun to go back before the Enterprise arrived
4. Assignment Earth - going back to study Earth in the past
What was the 5th time?
1. The Naked Time - when the engines imploded
2. Tomorrow is Yesterday - pulling away from the black star
3. Tomorrow is Yesterday - accelerating to the Sun to go back before the Enterprise arrived
4. Assignment Earth - going back to study Earth in the past
What was the 5th time?
And McCoy definitely did not say "He's dead, Jim" 22 times.
This infographic is so inaccurate it must have been made by Cash Markman. Sorry, Marc Cushman.
That's okay, they messed up "separate" as well.
This infographic is so inaccurate it must have been made by Cash Markman. Sorry, Marc Cushman.
And McCoy definitely did not say "He's dead, Jim" 22 times.
That's okay, they messed up "separate" as well.
This infographic is so inaccurate it must have been made by Cash Markman. Sorry, Marc Cushman.
I only picked up 17 times Kirk's shirt is torn or removed. The chart says 19, maybe I forgot a couple.
I might be missing some, but my rough count of redshirt deaths is 22, not 28:
WALGMO 2
Devil in the Dark 1
Friday's Child 1
The Changeling 4
The Apple 4
Obsession 3
By Any Other Name 1 (female)
The Ultimate Computer 1 (engineer)
The Omega Glory 1
Elaan of Troyius 1 (engineer)
Children Lead 2
Wink of an Eye 1
Kirk is doubled in The Enemy Within, WALGMO, Mirror Mirror, and Whom Gods Destroy, so that's one thing they got right.
You can't really get to "five separate occasions the Enterprise traveled back in time" unless you count Tomorrow is Yesterday twice, like @blssdwlf did, and count All Our Yesterdays as the Enterprise (the difference is semantics).
If we use Enterprise to be synonymous with crew (instead of the ship) then we can add
All Our Yesterdays - Kirk, Spock, McCoy travel back to Sarpedion's past
City on the Edge of Forever - Kirk, Spock, McCoy travel to Earth's past
This appears to be the source of the image. It was apparently a college project, LOL.
Ah, yes. The ''kink-in-the-back incident.''
But if Hortas looked like Louise Sorel or Barbara Bouchet, is there any doubt Kirky would boink them as well?
Uh, if they did look so good, then they wouldn't be Hortas. They'd just be sexy silicon-based creatures of the deep rock. And Kirk wouldn't get himself mixed up in that.
@ZapBrannigan Four in Obsesion. Two at the beginning, then Rizzo, then one of the two that was with Garrovick. Also, an implied fifth one since the creature entered via engineering.
edit to add: One redshirt (transporter operator) and one red coveralls (Watkins) in 'That which Survives'. So two more there.
edit to add: One redshirt (transporter operator) and one red coveralls (Watkins) in 'That which Survives'. So two more there.
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Confirmed offscreen kill. That makes OBSESSION deadlier than THE APPLE or THE CHANGELING, both of which are bloody-red enough. That tally-sheet on the original post seems to have omitted all the offscreens and the possible deaths like Ensign Faceless from CHARLIE X. Kirk certainly lost at least 59 to 63 in total.....with a dozen in his first episode. The only foolproof method for TOS survival is to be female and be yellow.
She would still count in the total deaths, if she died. But I don't think she did:
The Enterprise didn't lose anybody in "Charlie X."
Nobody likes Thompson more than I. But she was never yellow.
Ex Astris Scientia has a breakdown of deaths by uniform color
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/redshirt_deaths.htm
Red 26
Blue 7
Gold 8
Unknown 15
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/redshirt_deaths.htm
Red 26
Blue 7
Gold 8
Unknown 15
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