Keeping the Captain happy!

[Tom Servo 0]

Here is a little clipping I read this afternoon...

 

Saving the galaxy, one tryst at a time

It's something every employee firgures out at some point - life is easier whe your boss is gettin' some.

 

For the expendable red-shirted crew aboard the Star Trek [sic]Enterprise, that was especially true.

 

Each episode of the classic sci-fi series found Captain James T. Kirk and his crew (usually Spock , Bones, and a stock character in a red shirt) beaming down to some hostile enemies, and all ut the red-shirted sacraficial lab would return to safety.

 

Well Matt Bailey, the founder of SiteLogic, a web marketing consultant, crunched the numbers and found that over the three-year span of the show (which bore 80 episodes), a total of 59 crew members died on missions.

 

Of those 59 crew deaths, 73 per cent wore red shirts. Of those red-shirted members who died, 42.5 per cent died on board the Enterprise, while the majority died while beamed down on an ailen planet.

 

Now, the best way for a crewman not to die, Bailey figured, was not beaming down to a hostiple planet with Kirk and company. Duh.

 

The next best way? Get his captain some love.

 

"When Captain Kirk meets an ailen woman and 'makes contact.' the survivial rate of red-shirted crewmen increases by 84 per-cent," Bailey writes. "In fact, out of Captain Kirk's 24 'relatoinships,' there were only three instances of red-shirt vaporization."

 

Gives new meaning to the term "make love, not war," doesn't it?

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Edited April 17, 2008 by Tom Servo

[Samantha_Kent 0]

Very nice...lol...someone has too much time on their hands.

 

It took me like ten minutes to realize that "sacrificial lab" was a typo and not some strange cult ritual I was not aware of...clearly I need to get more sleep.

[Travis Kroells 0]

This should be helpful for the academy.