Non- Enterprise crew redshirts hardly fared any better, demonstrating an alarming propensity for being killed, possessed and/or otherwise coming to bad ends. Notably, Haskell, despite manning the conn officer position, wore command division red. Lieutenant Torres probably survived TNG: " Encounter at Farpoint", but the TNG era lost Haskell, Monroe, Dern, Nell Chilton, Hawk, and Branson. They also became likely to die a theme of crew deaths was dominated by the continuous loss of their conn officer. None of the officers were really killed in Star Trek: The Animated Series, but Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced a new twist to the "redshirt" lore, as the uniform colors switched and operations division wore the gold, or rather bronze, uniforms while the command division took on the red shirts. TOS: " The Tholian Web" showed the USS Defiant crew dead, with much being redshirts, making it the only non- Enterprise ship to showcase redshirts.Īs portrayed in TNG: " Genesis", Ensign Dern died in 2370Ī DS9 crewman killed in 2371, as seen in DS9: " Civil Defense" The operations division was wearing beige (probably described officially as "sand") at this point. We saw only the latter three die on screen, but we know that none of them were technically redshirts, as there were no red uniforms of the design they used in that episode, reused from TOS: " The Cage" (which, itself, featured three off-screen deaths). TOS: " Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the first to feature a redshirt and has the most associated deaths twelve crew people were lost, nine of whom died instantly at the galactic barrier, and three more of the twelve victims perished in events at Delta Vega. (The infamous "Get A Life" sketch from when William Shatner hosted Saturday Night Live makes her being reduced to a polyhedral shape, which then gets crushed, thereby killing her, one of its jokes.) In " By Any Other Name", the first female redshirt to die was Yeoman Leslie Thompson. He clearly appears in later episodes, so it is probable that he either has an identical twin brother, perhaps even two identical triplet brothers or three identical quadruplet brothers, or that he did indeed survive the attack. Leslie would have been a fourth redshirt killed in the outing, but a mention of him surviving was cut from the episode's final edit. (The creature also kills one crewman aboard the ship, but the precise color of his shirt is never shown.) One of the vampire cloud's victims does not quite count – Mr. One redshirt, however, is lucky enough to be transported to the Enterprise in critical condition. In " Obsession", the dikironium cloud creature kills three security guards that are shown, all in red shirts, including Ensign Rizzo. In "The Apple," Kaplan, Marple, Hendorff, and Mallory were all on one security team, killed one-by-one by the dangers of Gamma Trianguli VI. Scott, but was kind enough to restore him at Kirk's request.) (The Nomad probe, after its merger with the Tan Ru probe, also "killed" Mr.
"The Changeling" has the most anonymity involved all but one of the redshirts that die are unnamed ( 1- 2- 3), the other being Carlisle. TOS: " The Changeling" and " The Apple", in TOS Season 2, both featured four security redshirts dying in each episode. Of these, the security personnel were quite expendable, because the Security And Tactical Division was an inherently high-risk assignment. The duties they normally performed were in security, engineering, or other Support Services (such as communications officers, administrators, and yeomen) aboard starships and starbases. In the era regularly depicted in Star Trek: The Original Series, red uniforms were worn by members of the operations division. See the List of Starfleet casualties for a complete summary of crew losses.