From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: gunnerasch@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
   On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:43:46 -0400, ToolPackinMama   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 9/14/2011 1:39 AM, ToolPackinMama wrote:   
   >   
   >> 1) Red uniforms were not invariably fatal   
   >> 2) Red "dresses" weren't safer than red shirts   
   >> 3) Female starfleet, in whatever color, were as likely to die as the men   
   >>   
   >> These are the facts which have been established. Thank you for your   
   >> attention.   
   >   
   >For the record, many red shirts that were MALE characters survived their    
   >trips ashore.  For example, all of the guys in red shirts that went    
   >ashore in the episode "Miri" survived unharmed.  There are many more    
   >examples I could cite.   
      
   http://raincoaster.com/2007/08/04/star-trek-and-the-red-jersey-o   
   -death-the-math/   
   Star Trek and the Red Jersey of Death: the math   
      
   04 Aug 2007    
      
      
   At last a twisted genius has applied some higher math skillz to the   
   age-old question of just how deadly is the red Starfleet uniform?   
      
   Answer: pretty damn deadly.   
      
       Probability of a red-shirt casualty= 53%   
       14% of fights ended in a fatality (with a 72% chance the fatality   
   wore a red shirt)   
       Probability of a red-shirt oincidento when Kirk has a oconquesto =   
   12%   
      
   Which leads to some truly fascinating conclusions:   
      
       As the data shows, Captain Kirk omaking contacto with alien women   
   has an impact on the crewAs survival. The red-shirt death rate is higher   
   when a fight breaks out than when Kirk meets a woman and a fight breaks   
   out. Yet the analysis shows that meeting Kirk meeting women only happens   
   in 30% of the missions.   
      
       Conclusion:   
       We can reliably improve the survivability of the red-shirted crewmen   
   by only exploring peaceful, female-only planets (android and alien   
   females included).   
      
   I particularly love the Powerpoint presentation. Surely, surely, those   
   wizened old Admirals would enjoy the slides as well, for getting in   
   those needed snoozes. Yes, the whole intricate and elegant article on   
   the morbid red shirt is really a stalking horse, to distract you from   
   the fact that, like it or not, youAre reading a comparative analysis of   
   bar graphs vs Powerpoint vs pie charts. ItAs as if the anonymous Fellini   
   of the flipchart from Ross Perotas campaign finally busted a nerdish nut   
   and this is the offspring.   
      
   May he live long and, yes, prosper.   
      
   http://red.shirt.society.fanspace.com/   
      
      
      
   Gunner   
      
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