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.
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