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Star Trek's forgotten heroes shine in IDW's new Red Shirts miniseries

- STEPHEN JEWELL

STOCK CHARACTERS WHO ARE killed off shortly after first appearing, Star Trek's red shirts take centre stage in IDW's new five-parter, giving identities and voices to the anonymous crew members.

“The series was inspired by my reference to some red shirt deaths in The Original Series episode 'The Changeling', where NOMAD vapourises two red shirt officers on the Enterprise,” says Christopher Cantwell, who previously wrote monthly title Star Trek: Defiant. “I tried to find their names for my reference but couldn't, and a super Trek fan actually reached out to me and told me the correct names.

“I thought it was cool how someone would remember their names for so many years. The idea of red shirts being people is nothing new, but in