A statistical analysis of mortality rates for security personnel of the Starship Enterprise determines: "We can reliably improve the survivability of the red-shirted crewmen by only exploring peaceful, female-only planets (android and alien females included)." (via MeFi)

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[Fec Stench]

We live, and fight, and die so that Kirk can pose, and preen, and pause dramatically, and then woo alien women and fly with them to the stars. We can't all be Kirk -- at least we can be the cause of Kirk's happiness. - Metafilter commenter Astro Zombie.

[Kim]

When I was in college, I was a geek. Well, I was a geek before that and I'm still a geek, but my point is...in college we'd play drinking games (yeah, geeks drink, too) and one of the games we played involved drinking every time a red shirted crewman was killed. Then we were intoxicated geeks. Do you know when happens when an intoxicated, geek, computer programmer gets near a computer? We called it PWI....programming while intoxicated. After such parties we all had to learn new ways to boot up our computers because our programmer friends would always re-program the computer(s) that the host of the party owned. This, of course, while a nice game of D&D, Cthulhu or Vampire was happening.

Ahhhh, the memories. I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.

:-o