There Are No Small Parts, Only Long Memories (bit players in original Star Trek series)

New York Times ^ | October 8, 2006 | Thomas Vinciguerra

[EveningStar]

...When the U.S.S. Enterprise first blasted off in 1966, only its principal characters — William Shatner’s Capt. James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock and DeForest Kelley’s Dr. Bones McCoy among them — might have expected devoted fans. But as Trekkies observe the show’s 40th anniversary this year, they are celebrating not just the stars but also the background actors who manned the starship’s controls, beamed down to alien planets and, if they played red-shirted security guards, often got torn apart by a monster or dematerialized by a Klingon...

[EveningStar]

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[mware]

The red shirt tradition continues with 24.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

GalaxyQuest nailed it with "Crewman #6."

[BenLurkin]

BUMP!

[EveningStar]

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[onyx]

A BUMP for you.

[SevenofNine]

You know what you are right

All Red shirts end up in 24 the series hey some of REd shirts went on to soap opera

[mware]

All Red shirts end up in 24 the series hey some of Red shirts went on to soap opera

Of course some of the shirts are only red after Jack is done with them.

[rlmorel]

THAT is one of my favorite movies! They nailed the entire Star Trek experience...

My favorite line is when they are supposed to go onstage at some convention, and the Spock analog character says "There is nothing you can say to make me go out on that stage!" After which, the Kirk-analog character says: "The show must go on." And Alan Rickman says "Damn You!"

[ThomasThomas]

So was it a different guy each time got torn apart by a monster or dematerialized by a Klingon or did we have the undead return as red shirts?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks to the author for using "Trekkies" instead of the stupid term "Trekkers" some prefer.

[Publius6961]

Now that I think of it, there should be a red-shirt Hall of Fame...

[SunkenCiv]

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