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To: BenLurkin

IIRC, except for Charlie X, most Enterprise (A) crew fatalities occurred planetside, so the better calculation might be red shirt fatalities among landing parties, rather than ship’s complement.


3 posted on 04/13/2017 8:42:00 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: treetopsandroofs

That’s why Guy had a better chance of surviving if he stayed on board the Galaxy Quest, though it still worked out ok for him.


5 posted on 04/13/2017 8:44:14 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Indeed. The term red-shirt in the context of likely to die meant an extra beaming down as a security guard at the beginning of an episode. It did not apply to eveeybody wearing a red shirt.


10 posted on 04/13/2017 8:49:53 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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18 posted on 04/13/2017 9:03:08 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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