For instance, in "The Trouble with Tribbles," Spock calculates that after just three days there will be 1,771,561 tribbles! Because each tribble produces 10 additional tribbles every 12 hours, and the original tribble sticks around to reproduce more, the generations grow by 1+10 = 11 times each generation - giving 1 x 11^6 tribbles after six generations (three days). Grime also compared the Vulcans' mode of reproduction, which happens only once every seven years, to that of tribbles, whose numbers grow exponentially and reach great numbers very quickly. "So I think the moral of the story is, if you're on the starship Enterprise and you want to survive, be a scientist." (Only 6 percent of the blue-shirted scientists died over the course of the show.) "There is some truth in the old 'Star Trek' myth if you look at security officers … 20 percent of security officers died," Grime added. Out of 55 goldshirts, 10 died, which is 18 percent! So you are more likely to die as a goldshirt, Grime said. Grime used the "Star Trek" technical manual to find out how many of each crew type there were, which painted a different picture: out of 239 redshirts, 25 died, which is 10 percent. In other words, we're looking at the probability that you are a redshirt if you die (58 percent) - what we want to know is the probability that you die if you're a redshirt, Grime said. That claim, in fact, is false - more "redshirts" died on-screen than any other crew type (10 gold-shirted, which are command personnel eight blue-shirted, who are scientists and 25 red-shirted, Grime said), but that calculation fails to take into account that there are far more redshirts on the ship to start with than any other crew type. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Grime first focused on an age-old assertion: that crewmembers wearing red shirts in the original "Star Trek" series, which denote working in engineering or security, are far more likely to be killed off than any other shirt color. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content. ![]() ![]()
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