Bonus Episode: Redshirts and Red Shirts

About this episode

The episode discusses the cultural significance of red shirts in Star Trek, analyzing both a comic miniseries and a novel.

Red shirts might be one of the biggest pop-cultural tropes given to us by Star Trek, but what does it mean, in-universe and out, the first of our two part look actually gives us both as Miles describes the IDW miniseries ‘Star Trek: Red Shirts’ to Charlie and neither can hide their dissatisfaction while following up with a brief discussion of the John Scalzi novel ‘Redshirts.’ Next episode, we’ll actually be talking about episodes of Star Trek which feature examples of Red Shirts themselves. DISCLAIMER: NO RED SHIRTS WERE WORN DURING THE RECORDING OF THIS PODCAST! Time Codes: ‘Star Trek: Red Shirts’ (16:25) John Scalzi’s ‘Redshirts’ (01:02:26) TALKING POINTS: Miles has to carry nitroglycerin in case his heart stops and he finds that metal, The Legend of Luther Arkwright, Star Trek Voyager: Across the Universe, it makes a weird sense that Spock and Worf would be mates, Star Trek: Defiant is a much better comic, Lower Decks’ potential cynicism is canceled out by Tendi being a goddamn delight, Strikeforce Moritori, Avengers Arena and the Battle Royale manga, this might be the one Star Trek ‘thing’ that convinces Miles that Section 31 should exist, making meta-jokes and parodies…

People in this episode

Hosts: Miles, Charlie

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• Red Shirts
• pop culture tropes
• John Scalzi
• comic discussions
• literary analysis
• meta-jokes

Keywords

• Star Trek
• Red Shirts
• John Scalzi
• comics
• pop culture
• literature
• tropes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Section 31

Books & works: Star Trek: Red Shirts, John Scalzi’s ‘Redshirts’, Star Trek Voyager: Across the Universe, Star Trek: Defiant, Lower Decks, Strikeforce Moritori, Avengers Arena, Battle Royale manga

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