There is a lot of tongue-in-cheek Star Trek lore centered around the very serious subject of death, with the most common ‘amusing’ and ‘delightful’ observation being that those crew members assigned to wear red shirts are often beamed down to a strange planet along with a smattering of blue shirts and gold shirts (the ‘important’ crew), only to be summarily dispatched by the locals and (presumably) backfilled back on board the ship by the next poor soul. As irony (or apt) would have it, Captain Mostafa Azab’s ‘red shirts’ were one of two teams that didn’t make it back from a ‘routine scouting mission’ on planet Reglar-Seezun. Captain Joel Gattey’s ‘lime shirts’ did not fare any better, which should not surprise anyone familiar with the color scheme of the original show and its many spinoffs. The remaining eight crews will forge ahead to the strange new world of playoff space starting Sunday, December 7th…
