Talk:Redshirt
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Uh, as much as I liked watching Welshie getting iced, he's hardly a part of the 'Trek universe (except as a parody). Is M/A changing its policy now?
- The policy has always been to take data like this and place it in background sections, away from cited, canon, information. This entire redshirt article is mostly written from the POV of a "behind the scenes" article, anyway. Its not like we'd be able to claim Welshie is canon -- far from it, background info is required to be subsection or italicised so it is not confused with canon facts written in the standard Memory Alpha POV -- but it is in our power to expand the article by including background information like this, and making use of the image and information from Star Trek parodies, or IMDB, Wikipedia, etc -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk
This was a hilarious article. Well done.
Haha I must agree, this is a nice piece of work! Emerald Knight
What, no reference to Galaxy Quest ?
- See Star Trek parodies#Galaxy Quest. --From Andoria with Love 19:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Wouldn't Tasha Yar be considered the ultimate redshirt?
- Considering she wore gold, and did not meet many of the other qualifications of a "red shirt", I'd say no. --OuroborosCobra talk 14:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] List?
Any chance of a list of red-shirts on the original (and/or spinoffs)? I know there's the list of casualties, but a specific list of characers like this could in interesting. Should this article have the 'real world' tag used on articles about actors and such?
[edit] Anamaniacs
In one of the few episodes of this I ever saw, there was a Star Trek parody in which two red shirts were sent over a hill. As soon as they vanished behind the crest there was a giant explosion. I don't remember any more than that. If someone knows more, they should add it to the parody list.
[edit] other names
I've heard fans use the terms Mr. Expendable and Ensign Expendable synonymously with red shirt. Does anyone think they might be added somewhere? Naufana : talk 04:20, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Changeling
A note on a quick error to change. The article says near the top ""The Changeling" has the most anonymity involved; all four that die are unnamed". However, one reshirt (played by Arnold Lessing) was clearly called Carlisle by Kirk.
Interestingly, that moves it into a tie with Obsession for anonymity, unless we count Leslie. 24.158.200.150 05:56, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Leslie's picture caption
"Lt. Leslie, killed by a dikironium cloud creature on Argus X; he later recovered" Is this proper? I mean He was killed, but recovered? should it be reworded? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by JCDenton (talk • contribs) .
- 'Tis called humor, lad. Inform and entertain. --From Andoria with Love 22:00, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Haha, all right, sounds good, just found the caption so out there. JCDenton 05:19, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Obsession
The Obsession count is currently wrong. One of the redshirts aside from Rizzo actually returns to the Enterprise in critical condition. And regarding the two people killed on the ship, McCoy actually comments that one of them may survive. I'll change the page accordingly. {{SUBST:User:QuiGonJinn/sig}} 18:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
