Talk:Double red alert

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Changed "ironically" to "luckily". It would be ironic if the phaser was in a fleeing person's duffel bag and ended up blowing up everyone except Kirk, who was trying to commit self-sacrifice. Irony can be explained like this: A man being run over by a car is never ironic - unless it's a diabetic getting run over by an insulin truck, or an alcoholic being hit by a beer truck. See? --The Rev 07:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Minor point - It was ironic because the phaser became visible only because of the double red alert that was induced by the phaser's own presence. "Luckily" works fine too. 24.214.57.91 18:31, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Is the resolution of the situation it was declared in really necessary at all? It seems to be encyclopedic all that is necessary is to describe the situation leading to the use, not how the particular incident was resolved. "A phaser being set to overload inside the ship was the only known situation demanding a double red alert, it is unkown if there were others." Or something like that seems more appropriate. --JCoyote 23:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Blish and the use of Double Red alert. In the novelisation of the series episodes into short story form conducted under licence by SF writer James Blish, in the story [i]Court Martial[/i] he altered all script references to Yellow Alert to Red Alert, and Red Alert to Double Red Alert. Is there something that could be added about that?86.129.147.118 17:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)