If you are not a regular cast member, whatever you do, stay the Hell out of the transporter! You DO NOT want to beam down with the rest of the landing party!
Staying on the ship was no guarantee of safety. Redshirts even got zapped on the Enterprise.
If you are not a regular cast member, whatever you do, stay the Hell out of the transporter! You DO NOT want to beam down with the rest of the landing party!
Lol! Any openning scene with a landing party where there was a new guy in a red security uniform; you knew that guy was gonna be toast before the openning theme rolled.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirts_(novel)
Redshirts by John Scalzi:
“Ensign Andrew Dahl, newly assigned to the Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union, works in the xenobiology lab. However, upon receiving the chance to work with famed senior officers of the ship on “Away Missions” to dangerous planets, Dahl realizes that as a low-ranking crew member, he is very likely to be killed while on one of these missions.”