Space:
The original “Star Trek” series isn’t just a milestone of science fiction, it’s also a treasure trove of mathematical ideas — as Space.com discovered when we attended “Star Trek: The Math of Khan” at the Museum of Mathematics on Thursday (April 6). Tribbles, inevitable aliens and computer-breaking paradoxes all made appearances at the talk — along with the fate of those (evidently) not-so-ill-fated red-shirted crew.
I love these kinds of “science meets fiction” articles. I would have bet money that the redshirts were the unluckiest Star Trek crew members.
Im going to nerd out a sec here… it’s not that redshirts had the highest fatalities in proportion to their numbers in the crew, it’s that the redshirts on away missions were the ones to die. It was almost unheard of for any other color to die on those.
I nerded you up on that one.
The biggest latter-year casualty of the Star Trek franchise (reflecting the general population’s educational decline) is science itself.