The redshirt rule never applied to Scotty.
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It's not easy being a "Star Trek" extra. I can only imagine the cold sweats and terror you'd feel if the wardrobe manager handed you a fresh red shirt from the rack. Your chance of making it through the episode just took a dive. Or did it? New mathematical calculations show that the redshirt death rate may not be as dire as we thought.
Matthew Barsalou breaks down the numbers for Significance Magazine. He sticks with the original series and starts by looking at the casualty rates for the different uniform colors across all three seasons.
There were a total of 55 deaths. In sheer numbers, redshirts took the brunt of it with 24 dead. Only 9 characters wearing the yellow/gold command uniforms kicked the space bucket. Rounding it out, 7 blue shirts bit the dust and 15 of the deceased were of an unknown uniform color.
If you just stop there, it sure looks like redshirts are the most dangerous branch of Starfleet service. But wait, there's more. With an official count of 430 total crew members, the numbers show that 239 work in security, engineering, and operations, wearing red shirts.
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