Why Don't People In Red Die Anymore

[Nemesis 0]

Watching TNG today I realized the people in red no longer die it worked with TOS for so long but now they stay alive. When ever you watch TOS you know the guys wearing red were going to die (not my favorite Scotty though he was special) but now all the bridge crew are in red and of course they live this makes me sad people in red should die. :)

[LoAmi 0]

Because in TNG, the guys in yellow die.

[Nemesis 0]

but who has yellow blood answer me that   :)

[FredM 0]

Hey there,

 

Modern Trek is an equal opportunnity killer.   :)

[Erein Vor'Tic 0]

No, they just want the blood to show out. Red on red: cant see the blood, red on yellow, you have every doc in the secter comming to help

[Vex Xiang 0]

What about that TNG one with the alien face in the big cloud? He killed a redshirt just because he wanted to see what it would look like.

[Tovan 0]

these days every color dies.

[ensign_Stron 0]

Hey there,

 

Modern Trek is an equal opportunnity killer.   :)

SO is STSF, but what does it matter? :)

[Images 0]

What about that TNG one with the alien face in the big cloud? He killed a redshirt just because he wanted to see what it would look like.

yeah! when i first watched that episode i saw that redshirt and i KNEW "that guy is toast!"

[Nemesis 0]

I have always wanted to be an un named ensign on an away mission wouldn't that be great. :)

[STSF Precip 0]

If I recall correctly the first person to die on TNG (Encounter at Farpoint) was a Redshirt. And it was an intentional tip of the hat to the original series.  STMAG did a funny study on which color uniforms led the fatality count.

(now if I can find it!)

 

Precip

[LoAmi 0]

TNG did have a fair share of guys in red die -- those helm and ops seats are especially dangerous, except, unfortunately, when Wesley sat there.

[Captain Huff 0]

This is why we have the Hood:  We still kill our redshirts.  :)

[FredM 0]

This is why we have the Hood:  We still kill our redshirts.  :)

Hey there,

 

Yes, and the Hood has the laundry bills to show for it!  :)

[Dumbass 0]

I guess blood is a lot harder to get out of spandex.

[Images 0]

i can't even remember most of farpoint! how did that first redshirt die? i remember a guy getting frozen by Q (in full 15th century costume) but he lived didn't he?

[2nd Lt JacobD 0]

That's all ok...tonight in the early academy sim, I made sure that a red shirt died...albeit he was under my care...something about a bumpy landing of a large starship and me slamming against a panel that controls the cortical stimulators.

 

;D

[Captain Huff 0]

No, nothing as pricey and high tech as Spandex.  We got velour.  Cheap 60's velour.  Meters and meters of it.

[STSF_BluRox 0]

This is why we have the Hood:  We still kill our redshirts.  :)

I remember....what you did to poor Ensign Ricky..... :)

[STSF Precip 0]

This is why we have the Hood:  We still kill our redshirts.  :)

Perhaps I should change my name to dead man walking?

 

Precip

Security Ensign USS Hood

[Captain Huff 0]

Alas for poor Ensign Ricky!  Isn't he a petrified cougar turd on some alien ice planet now?  :D

[STSF_BluRox 0]

Alas for poor Ensign Ricky!  Isn't he a petrified cougar turd on some alien ice planet now?  :D

Marked by the red scrap of velor sticking out of the top, waving in the wind........ :D

[Travis Kroells 0]

People in red dont die too much due to the fact that in TNG Red is the color of the command staff, and yellow is security.  In TOS it was the other way around (Or, Red was something else, I dont remember, I was born 20 years after TOS first aired!)

 

It's sort of hard to come up with a way to kill a member of the command staff every show...Just think how much TNG would have sucked, to have Riker go on an away mission, and then be mysteriously blown up like all the other red shirts?

 

In conclusion, its too expensive to hire new lead actors, they just pic homless guys up off the street, and transform them into red shirts before they relize whats happening...  :D    :D

[Sovak 0]

I have always wanted to be an un named ensign on an away mission wouldn't that be great. :D

Or maybe just the plucky comedy relief.

 

(Brownie points to whomever can identify that reference)

[STSF StarDust 0]

The engineer in Galaxy Quest.. played by Tony Shaloub.