Oh Hi again,
So much for a monthly astronomy post… These jodcasters do it better anyway.
Instead here is a geek post! How lovely for you!
So a short while ago Kim, Schicken and I commenced watching Star Trek: The Original Series from the start. Awesome in and of itself I know, but to increase the entertainment factor I started keeping track of the number of deaths suffered by each uniform colour, i.e. command Gold (Yellow), security/engineering Red and Science Blue. I then proceeded to tweet the episode by episode score with the hash-tag #TOSscore.
The danger of wearing a red-shirt is well documented on these here intertubes, but is it really true? Here is the end of season one break down (with a few of my favourite tweets from the #TOSscore tag).
Series One Breakdown:
- Safest Colour: Blue – 3 deaths over 28 episodes
- Longest Safe Run: Blue – 0 deaths over 25 episodes
- Most Dangerous Colour: Red – 6 deaths over 28 episodes
- Most Dangerous Run: Yellow – 3 deaths over 3 episodes
- Highest death rate (single episode per colour): Yellow & Red – 2
- Most Deadly episode: “Where no Man has gone before” – 3 (2 Red, 1 Blue)
Who wants a graph?!?:
This is the episode by episode plot of the TOSscore.
As you can see, some episode were rather more dangerous than others! (Also there are 29 episodes in season one. The Menagerie parts I and II were counted together, ie after this all episode number out by 1).
Favourite Tweets:
- Episode 22: “Space Seed”
#TOSscore red-shirts 5, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 5 + KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN (Remember when he ruled 1/4 of Earth from 1992 to 1996?) - Episode 14: “Balance of Terror”
#TOSscore red-shirts 4, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 2 + Wait isn’t that Spock’s Dad? (“Theres an awful lot of Plaster on that Romulan Ships” @TJx00) - Episode 9: “Dagger of the Mind”
#TOSscore red-shirts 4, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 1 +What am I, a Dr or a moon shuttle conductor?(=! Boon Scuttling Dr. @finestimaginary) - Episode 7: “What are little girls made of?”
#TOSscore red-shirts 4, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 1 + Kirk and a highly suspicious rock (see @finestimaginary’s latest tweet!)
Concluding remarks:
So far so bad for the reds, however things aren’t great if you are a yellow! Thank <insert deity of you choice> that I work in Science. It’s my recollection that the red-shirt danger increases in season two, plus we’ve yet to meet Mr. “Nuclear Wessels” himself Chekov meaning things can only get more entertaining. So until the end of season 2, keep your eye on #TOSscore and your red-shirt in the wardrobe.
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This is why I never wear red.
Okay, I do wear red sometimes, but those days are when I’m feeling dangerous and reckless.
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Most impressive, but you neglected to count Gary Mitchell, who wore command yellow, as one of the deaths in Where No Man Has Gone Before.
A misinterpretation of the unusual uniforms worn in that episode I guess, on my part… will correct in 3rd series finalé.
Only just seen brilliant – Red T shirt now at bottom of draw and will only use a red coffee mug in the house from now on! Does that mean most of the new people who appear and you know will disappear before the end are usually in engineering? New graph needed!