Redshirts (was: Telephone Number Damages)

[Mark A Mandel]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

#At 8:11 PM -0500 4/1/02, Mark A Mandel wrote:

#>In sf (science fiction) fandom, "redshirts" are the extras, especially
#>from Security, who are the first to die; from (the original) Star Trek.

#Were they red?  In our family, the kids called them "the orange guys".

I think of them as red, not orange. Maybe your TV's color balance was
off?

-- Mark M.