Will there be Redshirts

[Awesome Possum]

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a film critic!

 

[Hartzilla2007]

This is supposed to be a Trek that is bigger and better than any Trek we have ever seen. Accordingly, I'm counting on at least 7 redshirts dying on screen.

Well we know

Spoiler: Star Trek XI

At least one bites the dust scince the Redshirt doing the skydiving thing with Kirk and Sulu screws up his landing and lands in the lazer beam thing being fired by the Space drill to bore onto Vulcan. Which to resepct TOS tradition should happen after someone points out that if you hit the beam you get fried.

 

[Therin of Andor]

This shows he has no knowledge of Star Trek

Balderdash.

therefore he'll probably present Red Shirts as integral crew members who are remarkably resilient and the few times one of them dies, everyone mourns it.

And that's bad?

 

[Ezri II]

Ask yourself this question?

When was there a redshirt that got killed and was a woman?

 

[Qonos]

Anyone read that interview with Orci where he completely fucked up that thing from Chain of Command about the four lights? This shows he has no knowledge of Star Trek, therefore he'll probably present Red Shirts as integral crew members who are remarkably resilient and the few times one of them dies, everyone mourns it.

Hey they already are an integral part of the crew...


Someone's gotta die and keep Kirk Spock and McCoy alive.... (come on what are the odds that on every landing party a redshirt bites it instead of Kirk, Spock, or McCoy)

 

[OneBuckFilms]

Actually, the Red Shirt thing is something that can be done with a competent, perhaps slightly green officer in Security (wearing Red) would be killed soon after he's introduced.

One of those things where the Non-fan will see the tragedy, but the Fan will get a tinge of humor, guseeing beforehand (s)he was going to die in some dramatic fashion.

 

[Therin of Andor]

When was there a redshirt that got killed and was a woman?

Yeoman Leslie Thompson in the episode "By Any Other Name" (TOS). Kelvans turned both her and a male security guard, Shea, into foam blocks, then they crushed one block - we didn't know who - and restored the survivor to life: Shea.

I once did a fan fic where the redshirt who died was a woman. Her name? Rosie Chemise.

 

[HRHTheKING]

Kirk: Where is Yeoman Jenkins?

Bones: He's dead, Jim

Kirk: What colour was his shirt?

Bones: It's red, Jim

 

[cooleddie74]

Yes, I think there'll be redshirts on the Enterprise in the movie. Maybe not all in classic-looking red pullovers, but lower-deck ensigns and crewmen serving in engineering and security.

 

[Kryton]

When was there a redshirt that got killed and was a woman?

Yeoman Leslie Thompson in the episode "By Any Other Name" (TOS). Kelvans turned both her and a male security guard, Shea, into foam blocks, then they crushed one block - we didn't know who - and restored the survivor to life: Shea.

She was the one I thought of too.

Funny...I remember as a young teenager thinking "wow...one's a woman and one's black...how do the producers choose which to kill?" which implies a bit of cynicism about television production was present even in my youth.

(Aside: In the Shatner "Get A Life" sketch on SNL, Victoria Jackson played Julie Cobb, the actress who played Leslie Thompson. Julie Cobb, whose father was Lee J. Cobb, spent many years married to James Cromwell (Cochrane II).)

 

[cooleddie74]

Julie Cobb also played the wife of George Dzundza in the 1979 SALEM'S LOT miniseries. She was the one having the affair with Fred Willard before he was attacked and turned into a vampire by The Master.

 

[The Wormhole]

Funny...I remember as a young teenager thinking "wow...one's a woman and one's black...how do the producers choose which to kill?" which implies a bit of cynicism about television production was present even in my youth.

I thought something very similar the first time I saw By Any Other Name (I was 17). When I was them I thought "white female, black male. Do they want to be sexist or rascist?" Clearly, sexism was considered the lesser evil.

 

[cooleddie74]

Funny...I remember as a young teenager thinking "wow...one's a woman and one's black...how do the producers choose which to kill?" which implies a bit of cynicism about television production was present even in my youth.

I thought something very similar the first time I saw By Any Other Name (I was 17). When I was them I thought "white female, black male. Do they want to be sexist or rascist?" Clearly, sexism was considered the lesser evil.

One reason Uhura would never have been killed off. It would have caused numerous heads to implode both in and outside of the network.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Julie Cobb also played the wife of George Dzundza in the 1979 SALEM'S LOT miniseries. She was the one having the affair with Fred Willard before he was attacked and turned into a vampire by The Master.

In which Mr Barlow the vampire was played by... Ambassador Shras of Andor!

 

[I am not Spock]

In B&B Trek, they changed it to (mostly) goldshirts. Otherwise, Picard and Riker would have bought it.

And even Scotty wasn't immune from the redshirt curse in 'The Changeling'!

 

[Red Ranger]

I hope not! Such a tired cliche. (Well, maybe one or two obligatory redshirt deaths). Still, one of the things I liked about the first season of TOS is anyone, aside from the main cast, could buy it. You saw a number of goldshirts (command) and blueshirts (sciences, medical) buy it in many early eps, like The Mantrap, Arena and The Galileo Seven. -- RR

 

[cooleddie74]

Julie Cobb also played the wife of George Dzundza in the 1979 SALEM'S LOT miniseries. She was the one having the affair with Fred Willard before he was attacked and turned into a vampire by The Master.

In which Mr Barlow the vampire was played by... Ambassador Shras of Andor!

He was? Didn't remember the actor playing the ugly vampire.