| 1 | !! So, why is it a "{{red shirt}}"? Why red? Why a shirt? Because of this: |
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| 3 | Red was the color of shirt worn by the nameless security personnel on the original ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' series. Their only job was to get eaten, shot, stabbed, disrupted, temporally-shifted, frozen, desalinated, or crushed into a cube (except for Scotty, [[PlotArmor being the Chief Engineer]]). Their deaths would give Creator/WilliamShatner and Creator/DeForestKelley corpses to emote over, and Creator/LeonardNimoy corpses to ... [[TheStoic abstain from emoting over]]. (Creator/GeneRoddenberry [[InvertedTrope inverted this trope]] in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' when he had all officers of command rank wear red shirts while the security and engineering departments wear gold -- but as you can see, the theory is the same even if the colour isn't. Meanwhile, the ''Star Trek'' movies from ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Khan]]'' to ''[[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry The Undiscovered Country]]'' had ''everybody'' wear dark red irrespective of their position on the SortingAlgorithmOfMortality.) |
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