Yeah, that's a false comparison and adds absolutely nothing. Pulling.
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That is not a false comparison: The Enterprise's mission very often included military actions, such as destroying invisible ships attacking outposts and Superweapons designed to destroy entire planets. Unless you want to explain why the Enterprise (and all other Starfleet ships) don't need to be armed the way that they are.
Except it's explicitly an exploratory vessel during peacetime. A better comparison would be an aircraft carrier group during peacetime. They may engage is skirmishes from time-to-time, and they may be prepared to go to war, but their overall mission is not one of war. The redshirts aren't soldiers on a warship in the time of war, they're security personnel on an exploratory vessel during a time of peace. Comparing the two is apples to oranges. Moreover, it's natter. In the description, no less.
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Removed this from the page:
- Law And Order: In just about every iteration, cops who take over from the detectives will invariably fail in their duties at the most plot-relevant/dramatic times.
I've seen every episode of Law & Order (including SVU, CI, and LA), and can't think of any episodes offhand when this happened. But if it was true, how does it qualify as an example of Redshirt Army? Wouldn't the cops have to be killed?
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Yeah, that doesn't seem to be the right trope.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
It's a bit of a combination of Police Are Useless and The Main Characters Do Everything, as the Police Are Useless... except for the main characters.
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I pulled this from the quote page:
Because it does not represent this trope at all; this is much more a Badass Boast.
"This Trope is actually very inaccurate when you compare it to Real Life. If you were to watch every episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, count the number of casualties that the Enterprise had, and then compare that to an actual military, you'd see that Kirk's record as a leader in this regard is excellent, far better than any general in U.S. history. Even war heroes like George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower had proportionately more casualties among their troops."
Can we think of a better example or something? Because as is we're comparing the casualty rate of armys in legit wars with the captain of a single crew during peacetime. It's a really meaningless comparison, I just don't have anything better.
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