Comments on: Trek Analysis: The Red-Shirt Phenomenon

By: Head

Head — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:05:16 +0000

Ok nevermind! :) He just didn’t list the N for all the shirts. He did list the percents. I wasn’t paying attention and thought that the % had to do with percent of all deaths, not the percent of red shirts dying.

By: Head

Head — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:03:33 +0000

Look this analysis is severely flawed. He doesn’t look at the population of red, yellow and blue shirts. Without looking at the overall population of each group, looking at the number of deaths is meaningless. Sure Reds die more, but maybe there’s just MORE reds to begin with.

Did i miss this on that link or is it really not there? Cause to me this makes the whole study bunk.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:21:31 +0000

Trivia:
The first actor to don the dreaded red shirt of death was Michael Zaslow. He was the first person to have Deforest Kelly stand over him and say, “He’s dead Jim.” He had originally auditioned to play “Mr. Spock.” Zaslow was probably best known as a bad guy on the soap opera “Guiding Light.”

Michael Zaslow http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953651

By: Trivial Tdave

Trivial Tdave — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:08:47 +0000

The first crewman to die the dreaded red shirt death was played by Michael Zaslow. He was the first person to have Deforest Kelly stand over him and say “He’s dead Jim.” Zaslow was probably best known as a bad guy on the soap opera “Guiding Light.”

Michael Zaslow
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953651

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:02:31 +0000

I loved the ep of South Park where the little boy in the red shirt tried to go for help and instantly died. Nice h’omage

By: Age

Age — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:12:57 +0000

God, that graph is repulsive! It’s actually difficult to *look at*, let alone read.

By: reversengineer

reversengineer — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:03:49 +0000

Interesting. However, in the cited article there was a chart segmenting the crew as follows:
Engineering -yellow
Sciences – blue
Security – red

However, the segmentation based on shirt color is actually as follows:
Engineering/Security – RED
Sciences – Blue
Command – Yellow

This cast a shadow over the entire analysis, IMHO.

By: Higgins

Higgins — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:48:48 +0000

I believe Fleegman’s costume was sort of a blue/gray combo, but he was clearly intended to be a red-shirt in the larger sense. (They gave the nice red outfit to Sigourney Weaver….)

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:38:56 +0000

So what color was Guy Fleegman wearing? (from Galaxy Quest)

By: leigh

leigh — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:20:17 +0000

Funny, and we always thought that Kirk’s alien ‘dalliances’ were self-indulgent wastes of time…but he was really saving lives.

Make love, not war. You go Kirk!