Absolute Worst Way For A Redshirt To Die!

[Spock's Barber]

In "And The Children Shall Lead", two redshirts are supposedly beamed down to Triacus. Then Spock tell Kirk that the Enterprise is no longer orbiting the planet. Just the thought of those two men floating through space still freaks me out.

And your choice?

 

[T'Girl]

The absolute worst way would be trapped inbetween Captain's Archer and Picard.

Archer would tell the expanded version of the gazelle story, while Picard repeatedly informed the red shirt that he was hopelessly inferior to the evolved people of the next century.

The red shirt would die screaming.

.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Vaporized or turned into a polyhedron and crushed.

 

[Pondwater]

Vaporized or turned into a polyhedron and crushed.

I was going to say Vaporized too!

 

[EnsignTOS]

Crushed, radiation, salt drained from your body, asphyxiation.

 

[NTRPRZ]

I was going to say "old age," but no redshirt ever died of old age.

 

[Warped9]

I was going to say "old age," but no redshirt ever died of old age.

Compton died of accelerated aging.

 

[The Old Mixer]

In "And The Children Shall Lead", two redshirts are supposedly beamed down to Triacus. Then Spock tell Kirk that the Enterprise is no longer orbiting the planet. Just the thought of those two men floating through space still freaks me out.

This was always the redshirt death that bothered me the most.

 

[Melakon]

A transporter accident reduces Ensign Spearcarrier to one millimeter in size, but the rest of the crew believes he is lost. After 3 days without food, he finally arrives in the mess hall, where he falls into Neelix's leola root milkshake which is then swallowed by Harry Kim.

 

[Pondwater]

A transporter accident that turns one of them inside out.

 

[Green Shirt]

In their sleep.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Raped to death by Pon Farr Spock.

 

[Kinggodzillak]

In "And The Children Shall Lead", two redshirts are supposedly beamed down to Triacus. Then Spock tell Kirk that the Enterprise is no longer orbiting the planet. Just the thought of those two men floating through space still freaks me out.

Also spare a thought for the two guards who were left behind on the planet when the Enterprise left orbit, cos nobody mentions going back to pick them up...

 

[ZapBrannigan]

In "And The Children Shall Lead", two redshirts are supposedly beamed down to Triacus. Then Spock tell Kirk that the Enterprise is no longer orbiting the planet. Just the thought of those two men floating through space still freaks me out.

Also spare a thought for the two guards who were left behind on the planet when the Enterprise left orbit, cos nobody mentions going back to pick them up...

That, yes, but also Rizzo in "Obsession," with so much of his blood stolen.

 

[Corylea]

In "And The Children Shall Lead", two redshirts are supposedly beamed down to Triacus. Then Spock tell Kirk that the Enterprise is no longer orbiting the planet. Just the thought of those two men floating through space still freaks me out.

And your choice?

Actually, death by being beamed into vacuum would probably be pretty quick; it's the slower and more painful or fearful deaths that I think are worse. So I think the 429 crewmen from the USS Constellation in "The Doomsday Machine" would get my vote. They had time to call Matt Decker and beg him to do something, so they had a lot of time to be scared and to know that they were about to die.

(I'd say Arlene Galway, from "The Deadly Years," but she wore blue. Does a redshirt have to actually wear red?)

 

[Spock's Barber]

I just remembered that young redshirt who was barbecued by the Horta in 'Devil in the Dark'. Ouch!

 

[Corylea]

I just remembered that young redshirt who was barbecued by the Horta in 'Devil in the Dark'. Ouch!

Yeah, being dissolved in acid sounds like a painful way to go. It looks like it was quick, though, so that helps....

 

[publiusr]

Mind sifter

 

[InklingStar]

Not TOS, but the woman who falls through the floor in TNG "In Theory".

The cloud creature in "Obsession" seems particularly gruesome. According to both Kirk and Rizzo, while dying you can feel the creature's hunger and malevolence as it drains your life force away.

 

[Green Shirt]

Not TOS, but the woman who falls through the floor in TNG "In Theory".

Yeah, that was pretty creepy.