Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for February 15, 2025

Get what?

One Redditor recently took a look at how many of the stormtroopers’ blaster shots found their target in A New Hope. Out of 469 shots fired, only 11 hit an enemy combatant — all of which occurred in the film’s opening scene, as Imperial forces boarded the Tantive IV, engaging in a firefight with Rebel troops.

In fiction, “redshirt” is an informal term for a stock character who is killed off shortly after being introduced. The term often implies that said character was introduced for the sole purpose of being killed off while adding little else to the story, and is sometimes used pejoratively to point out a redshirt’s lack of good characterization or the obviousness of their incoming demise. Redshirt deaths are often used to emphasize the potential peril faced by more important characters. The term originates from the original Star Trek television series (1966–69), in which red-uniformed security officers and engineers often suffered deaths in the episode in which they first appeared, in contrast to most of the show’s main characters wearing other colors.

And that red shirt in the bar has to die no matter if the dart has a steel tip or a plastic one.

…then Kirk punches-out Darth Vader, and mayhem commences!

I get it. Think it’s barely funny though.

Didn’t know stormtroopers were in Star Trek.

When I first watched Star Trek, we still had a black and white TV. I didn’t know that the red shirts had red shirts.

Storm Troopers are actually very accurate shooters. Look what they did to the Jawas. In the Death Star, they actually missed on purpose, because Darth Vader wanted the Princess to escape so he could track them to their hidden rebel Base.Watch the escape from Death Star scenes again with the knowledge that the troopers were ordered not to harm them, and you can see just what good soldiers they were.

I got it.

Somewhere a geek is pitting a Star Cruiser against the Enterprise in a battle for the galaxy.

OY! ☺️

“He’s dead, Jim.”

“OK, everybody, take a drink!” ☺

Love the theory that they couldn’t shoot straight because rebel scientists had infiltrated the Empire’s weapons design lab.

if you like Star Trek then you should read the book RedShirts by John Scalzi

I…I got it. I am so sorry.

In TOS there were more red shirt deaths than gold shirts BUT gold shirts were statistically more likely to die during an away mission than a red shirt was.

LOL!! That’s hilarious! Thanks for the morning laugh!

Loved it, guys! From a proud geek!

One of my favourite t-shirts has a drawing of a Dalek on it and the text OMG! It’s R2-D2! I loved him on Star Trek.

Someone once came up to me and seriously told me that “R2-D2 wasn’t on Star Trek.”

Ho, no. I get it and I found it hilarious!

I read a Heinlein juvenile when I was 7 and got my geek membership card shortly after. I watched “Science Fiction Theater” on TV. I had a subscription to "Fantasy and Science Fiction in 8th grade. I got tired of Star Trek after the first season. I don’t think I ever watched it on a color TV.

Would it be “geek” or “nerd?”

Star Trek TOS and TNG were my favorites and Star Wars too even most of the animated series, I do wish Lucas buys it back.