Sig­ni­fic­ance magazine has ana­lysed the cas­u­al­ties in Star Trek:TOS. Every­one knows that wear­ing a red shirt on the USS Enter­prise is like wear­ing a giant shoot me sign. But what every­one knows might be wrong.

Mat­thew Bars­alou has ana­lysed the cas­u­al­it­ies and found blue is the safest col­our. He’s also found more red shirts died than any other col­our — but on the Enter­prise there are more red shirts any­way. The situ­ation is made more com­plic­ated by secur­ity, engin­eer­ing and oper­a­tions all wear­ing red shirts even though they do very dif­fer­ent jobs.

If you’re a space cadet this is essen­tial reading.

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