Catching Up with the Great Red Shirt Count

I realize I've been somewhat remiss in not posting recently. However, I've watched through the end of Season 1, so I'll just post everything to catch everybody up. We'll do this as fast as possible - no plot summaries, no extra commentary, just the name of the episode and the number of each color of shirts who die (if any) in each. Also, I will post numbers of red shirts who beam down and beam back up to the Enterprise without dying (presumably).

What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Red: 2 dead         3 surviving
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead

Miri
Red: 0 dead         2 surviving
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead

Dagger of the Mind
Red: 0 dead         2 surviving
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead

The Corbmite Maneuver
No deaths, no planet, no red-shirts on landing party (because, well, no planet)

The Menagerie (Part 1 and 2)
Red: 0 dead         No red shirts on landing party
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead

The Conscience of the King
Red: 0 dead         No red shirts on landing party
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead
1 dead civilian on planet, 1 dead civilian on ship

The Balance of Terror
Red: 0 dead        
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 1 dead        On ship - doesn't count

Shore Leave
Red: 0 dead
Blue: McCoy dead (He Got Better)
Gold: 0 dead

The Galileo Seven
Red: 0 dead         2 survive (Scotty and a female Yeoman - they don't count)
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 2 dead
1 death on search party reported, but not shown (so debatable what color shirt)

The Squire of Gothos
Red: 0 dead         No red shirts on landing party
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead

Arena
Red: 1 dead
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 1 dead

Tomorrow is Yesterday
Red: 0 dead         No red shirts on landing party
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead

Court Martial
Red: 0 dead         No red shirts on landing party
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead
No ACTUAL deaths (Presumed dead was found - gold shirt)

The Return of the Archons
Red: 0 dead
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead
No UNIFORMS on landing party (since everyone was in native dress)

Space Seed
Red: 0 dead
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead
No landing party, only boarding party

A Taste of Armageddon
Red: 0 dead         2 surviving
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead
1 civilian death

This Side of Paradise
Since everyone beams down and no one dies, I'm leaving this one alone. (Kimber's note: It's JARRING to see the Enterprise that empty, though...)

The Devil in the Dark
Red: 1 dead         9 returning
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead
50 civilian dead prior to episode

Errand of Mercy
Red: 0 dead         No red shirts on landing party
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead

The Alternative Factor
Red: 0 dead         4 returning
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead

City on the Edge of Forever
Red: 0 dead         2 returning
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead
1 civilian death back in time

Operation: Annihilate
Red: 0 dead         1 returning
Blue: 0 dead
Gold: 0 dead
Unknown number of civilian deaths

End of Season 1 Totals:
Red: 3 deaths         23 return to the Enterprise after beaming down
Blue: 4 deaths
Gold: 6 deaths


If it were me, I wouldn't want to be wearing a gold shirt in season 1 - twice as likely to die than a red shirt. Not looking good for the myth.

Stay tuned for Season 2!

Apparently it not like Firefox

This is bad, because cranky mommy doesn't like IE.  That is what I'm on now.  The last post was from my smart-phone.  This is not good people.  Guess I'm going to have to see if there is a Firefox update, and meanwhile I'll have to post the Great Redshirt count from IE.  Oh, and the mascarpone cheesecake tasted fine, but I thought it was a little too sweet, and you could really taste the lemon that I used to curdle the cream.  This last was not a bad thing though.  I'll have to try again, perhaps with less sugar.  Kim wants more mascarpone anyway. 

Help! Blogger won't let me use my computer

It Keeps telling me I've logged out.

Got caught by another show.

Yes, I'm still here.  I'm still knitting, and embroidering.  But I got caught by another show, and have been watching that rather than Star Trek to count redshirts. Oh, and I've been helping my dear MIL move off and on )  However, I've finished the show and now have time to go back to counting redshirt deaths.  So watch for the Great Redshirt Count to continue. 

for giggles and grins.

I am the sonnet, never quickly thrilled;
Not prone to overstated gushing praise
Nor yet to seething rants and anger, filled
With overstretched opinions to rephrase;
But on the other hand, not fond of fools,
And thus, not fond of people, on the whole;
And holding to the sound and useful rules,
Not those that seek unjustified control.
I'm balanced, measured, sensible (at least,
I think I am, and usually I'm right);
And when more ostentatious types have ceased,
I'm still around, and doing, still, alright.
In short, I'm calm and rational and stable -
Or, well, I am, as much as I am able.

I stumbled across a personality quiz, and this is what came up.  I liked it, so I put it here to keep.  More of the Redshirt count is coming soon!  

The Great Redshirt count, Post 3

Almost done with the skein of yarn I've been spinning.  As soon as it's skeined up I'll take a picture and post it. Also, I've been working on some cheese making.  Later today I intend to make a cheesecake with homemade Mascarpone.  I'll let you know how it turns out.  And now.... on with the count.

The Enemy Within

Kirk gets split into two halves in this one, good and evil, dark and light, take your pick, and there are four men, including Sulu, freezing on the planet below.  Sulu is in gold, the other three are in blue jumpsuits.
Only the doggy dies, so no body count.

Mudd's Women
The Enterprise hurts itself trying to save a civilian ship from an asteroid belt.  The first encounter with Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
No one dies in this one either, so no body count.  Oddly,  Uhura was in a gold dress in this one.
So the Cumulative count remains...    Blueshirts ---  4
                                            Goldshirts --- 3
                                            Redshirts ----  0  
Tune in next time, we finally get our first Redshirt Death!


 

The Great Redshirt count Post 2

Where No One Has Gone Before     Sept 21 1966
Today we start with an easy one. This ep, if I remember correctly, was the second pilot Roddenberry produced, incorporating a lot of the changes the networks wanted before they would pick up the show.  There were no redshirts at all in this episode.  Kirk and Spock were in an olive green a few shades paler that Kirks "alternate" uniform shirt.  There was also Gold and Blue.  Scotty was in gold, and Sulu was in blue.  There were three deaths in this episode,
Gary Mitchell -----  Gold shirt
Elizabeth Dehner -----Blue shirt
Lee Kelso ----- Gold. 

Body count:  3
On Planet body count:  3
Redshirt Body count :  0
Redshirt survival count : 0

The Naked Time          Sept 28, 1966

The crew of the Enterprise is infected with something that removes inhibitions. 

No Enterprise crew die on the planet, though one of the landing party, Joe Tormolen, dies later on the Enterprise.  He was wearing a silver environment suit down on the planet, and Blue on board ship. 

Joe Tomorlen  ----- Blue

Body count -- 1 
On Planet Body count --- 0
Redshirt body count --- 0
Redshirt survival count ---- 0

Cumulative body Counts,   Blueshirts ---  4
                                            Goldshirts --- 3
                                            Redshirts ----  0   

Spinning and knitting are coming along nicely, picture taking not so much.  More later.   

Now For Something Tottally Different

I've been watching a lot of Mythbusters lately, while spinning more yarn, and at one point Grant says, more or less "on Star Trek if you beam down to a planet wearing a red shirt, you aren't coming back"  and I began to wonder if it was really  true.  So, since I have more yarn to spin, and then knit, I thought I would go through The Original Series and see.  I'll try to post three times a week, at least two episodes, and post a body count, and on planet body count, and a redshirt body count. I will also post whether any redshirts beam down and survive.  However, since women don't really die very much, I'm going too ignore red dresses.  I'm going to go off of Amazon's original air dates, and go in air order.  So now for the first two:

The Man Trap- Sept 8, 1966

The enterprise is sent to give a physicals to an archeologist, Robert Crater, and his wife, Nancy, who is an old girlfriend of McCoy's.  When they arrive people start dying, and Kirk must find out the cause.
Casualties On Planet      Darnell    ----     Blue shirt                                      
                                       Sturgeon  -----    Blue shirt
                                        Green      -----    Gold shirt
Casualties On Ship          Unnamed crewman  -----  Silver suit
                                        Robert Crater  -----   Civilian
Body count:  5
On Planet body count:  3
Redshirt Body count :  0
Redshirt survival count : 0
Charlie X     September 15, 1966
The Enterprise takes on a teenage boy who grew up all alone in an alien planet.

Since the Deus Ex Aliens at the end of the episode set everything back to how it was before Charlie arrived, nobody actually dies is this installment. Also, no one beams down to a planet.  All body counts are Zero.

Cumulative body Counts,   Blueshirts ---  2
                                            Goldshirts --- 1
                                            Redshirts ----  0

What I'm spinning and knitting is the roving from my last post. I'll post more pictures as soon as I get them.  

No wood work...

for a while at least, it's just too hot to work in the Garage, where my Lathe is.  I do have a cane to do for one of Kimber's friends, but until the weather gets cooler that will probably be about the only thing I do.  I do have some spinning going however.  I bought some beautiful roving at Faire a few weeks ago, all white and pale pink and blue, with some lavender and dark blue as well. 

I wanted to colors to be a little more pronounced in the final yarn, so I split each section length-wise as I spun, pulling out the dark blue, the white and pale pink , and the pale blue and lavender in different sections. Then I spun each section.












 So far the yarn on the bobbin looks like...

I think I'm going to Navajo ply this, and since it's spun very fine, I should end up with a lace weight 3 ply variegated yarn.  I'll post pics when I'm done. 

Back again.

Yup.  I'm going to try the blogging thing again, and I have changed the name of the blog.  Back in Dec. I bought a wood lathe, and got it set up in Feb, as the weather was nice enough to allow cleaning and rearranging the Garage to accommodate the new piece of equipment.  So, since the lathe spins things too, a new name.  Now I just need to start taking pictures of things I'm working on to post here.  My shiny new (well, as of a month ago) smart phone my come in handy for that.
In other (somewhat belated) news, Darling Daughter is dating. We ( and she) have known the young man for some time, but she finally figured out how she felt.  Yes, he will get drafted into Greenwood, he knows this already.  He went along with us to Walla Walla just before Faire to hang posters.  At some point in time this picture was taken. 

Aren't they cute?

Also still spinning yarn.  Have some Milk protein fiber being plied right now.  As soon as it comes off the bobbin I have 8 oz. of lovely roving I got from a vendor at Faire that I want to start spinning.  Some pictures of that will be posted too. 

TTFN.