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Red Shirts in TOS (deaths)

midevilchaos#4670 midevilchaos
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edited July 2020 in Ten Forward
Did anyone in a redshirt ever consider he was going to die? After all the horror stories they read about their friends never returning, didn't any of them ever consider they were next, and were gonna die in a gruesome death?

EDIT: The irony then dawned on me that I was wearing a red t-shirt while writing this.
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    edited July 2020
    The redshirt thing is just a myth actually, several people have gone though TOS and counted every death and it turns out that the most dangerous shirt to wear is the gold one, not the red.

    And none of them are bad enough for someone in the story to think they were inevitably going to die considering the crew size (I forget the actual percentage, but it was not high).
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  • midevilchaos#4670 midevilchaos
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    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    The redshirt thing is just a myth actually, several people have gone though TOS and counted every death and it turns out that the most dangerous shirt to wear is the gold one, not the red.

    And none of them are bad enough for someone in the story to think they were inevitably going to die considering the crew size (I forget the actual percentage, but it was not high).



    You totally missed the point. :/ I wasn't being serious.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,360 Arc User
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  • midevilchaos#4670 midevilchaos
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    jonsills wrote: »
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  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,758 Arc User
    I imagine some of them eventually viewed it as a right of passage and were quite eager for away missions.
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    edited July 2020
    Then there is always this:

    https://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=M3cL1Aofy90&feature=emb_logo
  • nixie50nixie50 Member Posts: 1,266 Arc User
    A stormtrooper and a redshirt encounter one another. The stormtrooper fires every blaster bolt he has, hitting nothing. The Red Shirt dies anyway
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  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    except that isn't how it would go - the stormtrooper would hit on the first shot; they only miss against plot-protected personnel, until the plot armor is removed

    see: leia getting blasted in the arm during the endor incursion​​
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    except that isn't how it would go - the stormtrooper would hit on the first shot; they only miss against plot-protected personnel, until the plot armor is removed

    see: leia getting blasted in the arm during the endor incursion​​

    Leia was probably getting tired or overthinking, earlier she got hit in the chest or shoulder (I forget which), got knocked back a bit seemingly without noticing (and no injury) and kept firing. Apparently, when she was concentrating on something else (such as combat) she could subconsciously do some small measure of Tutaminis, similar to her father's blaster bolt catching trick.
  • midevilchaos#4670 midevilchaos
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    hawku001x wrote: »
    I imagine some of them eventually viewed it as a right of passage and were quite eager for away missions.

    Says a Jem'Hadar ahahah!
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