Influence
In other media, the term "redshirt" and images of characters wearing red shirts represent characters destined for suffering or death. Galaxy Quest (1999), a comedy about actors from a defunct science-fiction television series serving on a real starship, included an actor who is terrified that he's going to die on an away mission because his only appearance in the show was as an unnamed character who was killed early in the episode. The only character injured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Older and Far Away" (2002) wears a red shirt; writer Drew Greenberg confirmed that this "redshirt" reference was intentional. Early scripts for Lost (ABC 2004–2010) describe the character of Hurley as a "red shirt". The term is also used in the Warehouse 13 episode "Implosion". Slate's review of Prometheus describes characters who meet "grisly ends" in the film as "redshirts". John Scalzi's novel Redshirts (2012) both spoofs and pays homage to the notion of disposable low-ranking crew members on a Star Trek-style starship.
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