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It's because we don't have a style of music called "Jizz."(lemmy.world)

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/home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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I’ve been watching star trek (TNG, DS9, Voyager) and still don’t get the red shirt reference. I know it’s about them getting killed all the time but I just don’t see it.

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HelluvaKick@lemmy.world
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They swapped the red and gold job responsibilities between TOS and TNG. In 90s trek, it’s the gold shirts dying most often

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SatyrSack@feddit.org
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In TOS, there were more characters in red shirts than any other color. So of course most deaths were characters wearing a red shirt. Proportionally, I believe it was actually yellow with the highest mortality rate.

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Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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The meme is from TOS. Not as many people died in the newer ones.

A simple pie chart reveals 55 total deaths and, yes, red shirts perished in frightening numbers. A whopping 24 died, compared to 9 in yellow/gold command and 7 in blue, with 15 crossing into the final frontier in unidentified colors

https://www.startrek.com/news/did-redshirts-really-die-more-often-on-tos

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kahdbrixk@feddit.org
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Cause you didn’t watch the series the meme is made upon (TES)

TOS. More coffee for me

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theangryseal@lemmy.world
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The edgy series? The excellent series? The ecstatic series? The evil series? The Elvin series? The e-coli series? The epinephrine series?

:p

I had to.

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kahdbrixk@feddit.org
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Well done, well deserved

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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It’s a running gag more than anything. The idea is Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Ensign Smith in a red shirt beam down to the dangerous planet. Who dies?

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ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world
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Obviously the one who is not one of the lead actors, whose character usually doesn’t have a name, no lines, never appeared, and is from security and tasked to protect the captain and jump first in combat is going to survive.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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Ensign Smith:

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