Anyone who's ever seen the original Star Trek knows that, unless you're part of the core crew, it pretty much sucks to be a redshirt. You'll be the first to go when a proton torpedo from a D7-class Klingon starship slams into the hull of the Enterprise and you'll most likely die if you are ever chosen to be a member of the away team. Who are these expendable members of Operations, Engineering, and Security and why doesn't the Federation value them more? We'll likely never know why creator Gene Roddenberry singled out the redshirts for an early demise, but writer/director/co-creator Ryan Gowland and writer/executive producer/co-creator R. Benjamin Warren have offered up the hypothesis in their Star Trek parody series Red Shirts that these space expendables are simply "idiots in space," misanthropic adventurers hurtling through space with nothing to do but kill time until their inevitable demise.
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