![]() ![]() This is par for the course since the Red shirted member of the away team is played by an unknown actor. ![]() The old trope that was codified by Star Trek (the original series) wherein Spock, Kirk, McCoy and a guy wearing a Federation issued Red shirt would land on the planet only for three of the four members of the away party to make it back to the U.S.S. In Redshirts, Scalzi plays on one of the older tropes in science fiction, at least that of the expendable characters. Dahl is, of course, a red shirt, so are his companions Jimmy Hanson, and Maia Duvall. ![]() Or at least ensign Andrew Dahl begins to question how Captain Abernathy, science officer Q’eeng and ‘astrogator’ Kerensky survived when they should have each died ten times over. These ensigns start to question these coincidences. When new members of the Union are assigned to the ship they begin to take great notice of the growing list of casualties of lesser crew members and the impossibly surviving Captain, Medical Officer, and Science Officer. The Intrepid is the flagship of the Universal Union, the naval fleet of the galaxy in the 25 th Century. ![]()
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