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Statistics: Deaths on Star Trek (or, why wear a red shirt when other colors will do?)

What’s the toughest job in the universe?

Being a red shirt-wearing character on the classic TV showSTAR TREK.

Countless stories, articles, and jokes have been written about the high mortality rate of those ill-fated crew members who always seem to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time on planetary excursions.

Web Watch would chalk this up to mis-management by the ship’s captain and his commanding officers, but Captain Kirk would never see things that way.  He was on a five-year mission, dammit.

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Video Fun: Star Trek overdub parodies

Star Trek comic book collectionSome have called Star Trek a campy sci-fi classic.

That’s probably true, and William Shatner has not denied that his over-acting was a major part of the continued admiration for the classic series.

Here are a few clips showing how the Star Trek TV series has been repurposed into other works.

STAR TREK vs MONTY PYTHON

STAR TREK vs MONTY PYTHON