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SCOOP : Star Trek : Red Shirts launches in July 2025 write by Christopher Cantwell and issue by IDW Publishing
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Coming out ofthe London Book Fair , I get the word that IDW Publishing is to put out a newStar Trekcomic Holy Scripture series in July write by regularStar Trekcomics writerChristopher CantwellcalledStar Trek : Red Shirts . I guess we can see where this is going . With covering fire byChris Shehan , JJ Lendl , andDeclan Shalvey , Star Trek : Red Shirts#1 will be published on the 16th of July2025 .
In fabrication , a redshirt is an informal terminus for a livestock character who is down off in short after being introduced , often introduced for the sole determination of being killed off while adding little else to the story . The term originates from the original Star Trek television series in which cherry - uniformed security officers and technologist , as part of landing party on strange foreign planets , often suffered deaths in the episode in which they first appeared , in direct contrast to most of the show ’s master characters wear upon other colours .
Presumably , this series will concentrate on such characters , attempting to avoid their inevitable narrative - force back death . It might recall that a 1998 instalment ofDeep Space Nine , Valiant , see a grouping of cadets phone themselves Red Squad , almost all of whom die in the episode . The concept also formed a quite a little of the mentation behind the animate showStar Trek : Lower pack of cards . And then there ’s also the novelRedshirtsbyJohn Scalzialso satirizes the trope , in which several senior officers of the Intrepid , flagship of the Universal Union , bewail the unusually high bit of casualties of low - ranking crew member during late outside mission and conclude that they will require more crewmen to replace them . The book follows the chronicle of five raw recruits to the ship who realise that their actions are being order by the writer of a badly written sci - fi show from the past .
Expect confirmation ofStar Trek : Red Shirtsto follow in the next couple of month from IDW Publishing .
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