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Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Star Trek Red Shirts

This image is from the wired blog...artist unknown

If you accompanied Captain Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy down to an alien planet and you wore a red shirt, the chances are you would not be beaming up.

Matt Bailey of SiteLogic analyzed the numbers and found 13.7% of Kirk's crew died during their three-year televised mission, and that 73% of those deaths were Red Shirts.

Here is someone's YouTube homage to the red-shirts.

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2 comments:

Stephen Clarke-Willson, Ph.D. said...: I told that joke to #1:

http://drstephencw.blogspot.com/2005/04/jack-bauer-and-fifty-guys.html; 8/18/2008
Keekee Brummet said...: That's a good one. Going on a mission with Jack is a little like climbing a mountain with Jim Wickwire...somehow he always made it back, but his climbing partners? They're the red-shirts of mountaineering.

Funny, I must have read this on your blog at one time, but I didn't remember...

/jack; 8/18/2008

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