As John Scalzi has explored in his novel Redshirts, the secret lives of hapless and expendable space-faring crewmembers sort of represents an interesting incarnation of outer space versions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Should we feel sorry for these folks? Is the universe playing a joke on them? Should they just wear a different color?
Well, in the actual Star Trek universe, “redshirt” deaths were not always limited to red! Here are 10 memorable redshirt deaths dressed in blue, gold, and other colors from the original Star Trek.
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