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You're A Red Shirt....

A: Transfer off the Enterprise. Being a redshirt would be safer on the Hood or Yorktown.
B: Be LCDR Giotto. You know the old Andorian proverb? ""Beware of the Old Man in a profession where men die young."
 
I'd take my Capellan jigsaw piece in the chest proud knowing I died for a reason.

What that reason might be is another thing, but there is a reason.

Something about risk, yadda whatever I only signed up for a 5% discount!
 
Someone needs to tell the Hollywood writers. That if you get hit by an object with a one inch deep blade on it. You wont die. Unless you get cut in a vital artery. you'll bleed a little and be in pain and really pissed off. But you wont die. Unless they want us to make the leap that those blades are coated with some sort of fast acting poison.
 
No other red females. And no yellows at all. But if you're blue like Elizabeth Dehner, Arlene Galway, Karen Tracy, Ilia or Ensign Faceless from ''Charlie X'', nice knowing you.

Ensign Faceless!!!!:rofl: But thankfully she was spared the fate of living her life through with that visage, which in earlier times would have at least earned constant employment in Barnum & Bailey's, as all of Charlie's shenanigans effecting Enterprise, were set right by the Thasian when he made his appearance to pick up his charge.
 
^ Actually, I wonder. She presumably died shortly after her scene, what with not having any orifices for breathing and all. The Thasians said they "returned" Kirk's crew... but is that just the crew that Charlie made disappear? The Thasians already admitted they couldn't bring back the dead Antares crew... were they similarly helpless to resurrect her?

Oops, sorry for taking the joke thread on a detour to seriousness. But I've always thought that one scene is one of the darkest things in the original show. What a terrible way to go.
 
Perhaps she died, but I doubt it. Her transformation happened very shortly before the finale on the bridge, so maybe if she took short breaths (well I guess not), or at least didn't moan so much, she might have been able to survive! Seriously, this line from the Thasian would seem to cover her situation, as well as all the other mayhem Charlie wrought, save the Antares, unfortunately.

THASIAN: I have taken my form from centuries ago, so that I may communicate with you. We did not realise until too late that the boy had gone, and we are saddened that his escape cost the lives of the first ship. We could not help them, but we have returned your people and your ship to you. Everything is as it was.
 
Run the transporter. Better to send than be sent. Usually the transporter officer just gets savagely beaten, but he lives so he can regain consciousness and breathlessly report someone fought their way through and beamed down.
 
Run the transporter. Better to send than be sent. Usually the transporter officer just gets savagely beaten, but he lives so he can regain consciousness and breathlessly report someone fought their way through and beamed down.

Maybe not so much in the mirror universe :p

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State and vigorously pursue your case for sex reassignment surgery, if you're not already a woman. How many of them bought the farm? Yeoman Thompson of course, in of the more lamentable examples of a red shirt being sent to Sto-vo-kor, but I'm not flashing on any others right now. Maybe this was just an example of a fading genteel (or sexist) sensibility still at play, even in an SF production, but regardless, I think you were definitely in a much more advantageous position to survive, even though you probably still earned fewer quatloos than your male counterpart, but hey, you did have a much longer life expectancy, so at least that inequality would come out in the wash.
Not good enough. Get the sex change, then fuck Kirk. His girlfriends never bought it.

Dang it: Just remembered Edith Keeler...
 
I wonder what percentage of the ships complement were in Command, Sciences, and Reds. I imagine the ratio might be 1:3:2 respectively.
 
Maybe not so much in the mirror universe

Any Mirror job has certain drawbacks, but it was just the Agonizer, Mirror Kyle wasn't killed. He just learned a valuable lesson - will he be faster on the transporter controls next time? Sure. But at least he wasn't reduced to a pair of smoking boots like most red shirties. In the Mirror universe (where humans are far more likely to get a very negative reception) it's even more important to stay on the ship.
 
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