Comments on: ‘Star Trek’ Bit Players Cling On

By: aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.

aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south. — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:53:04 +0000

Klingon Cling on
On Friday James Joyner at Outside the Beltway pointed to this LA Times story about Star Trek bit players clinging on: Michael Dante may not be on any Hollywood A-list, but on this weekend in Pasadena, he was intergalactic. Dante...

By: Scott Dillard

Scott Dillard — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:07:27 +0000

The red shirt was always the dead giveaway.

By: Myopist

Myopist — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:07:00 +0000

"This reminds me of the Crewman #6 character from "Galaxy Quest.""

Damn, but I loved that movie. It was approximately 25.6654X better than it had any right to be.

By: bithead

bithead — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:48:08 +0000

Yes, that's the trick with TOS players... You gotta wear the red shirt, or they don't know ya..

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:11:03 +0000

Among the Trekerati, a "Crewman #6" type character, at least in the original series, is known as "Ensign Expendable," or simply "red shirt."