Trek whose sole purpose is to die and has more fun with it than anyĪuthor since Douglas Adams asked his audience to empathize with a doomed Previously unseen character in an episode of Star Scalzi has taken the trope of the redshirt, the To make sense of their apparent existence-as-cannon-fodder. Summed up by Thomas Hobbes’s description: “poor, nasty, brutish,Īnd short.” As any good protagonist would, Dahl and his fellow ensigns try
Travel down to planets with officers have a life expectancy that can be Unfortunately, his realization is that ensigns who are assigned to He comes to several realizations about life. Shortly after Ensign Andrew Dahl is assigned to the Intrepid,įlagship of the Universal Union fleet in John Scalzi’s Redshirts, Agent: Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Agency.REDSHIRTS by John Scalzi Tor 978-0-7653-1699-8 304pp/$24.99/June 2012 Scalzi explores life among the doomed redshirts with ingeniously morbid glee, but that’s not enough to save the story from collapsing in on itself. The rest of the book is increasingly strange and unfunny as Dahl breaks the fourth wall to demand answers. Sadly, and all too soon, Scalzi reveals an explanation that neither surprises nor satisfies. The first third of the book is a darkly comic romp, skewering common plot holes and lazy genre conventions while making the reader eager for the ingenious reason for the “coincidental” deaths. As Dahl’s fellow officers drop like flies and backstab each other to escape away duty, he decides to figure out exactly what’s going on. In a world where junior starship officers inevitably and dramatically die on planetside missions-a problem any Star Trek fan will be familiar with-ensign Andrew Dahl joins the crew of the Universal Union ship Intrepid, the pride of the fleet, and quickly realizes his life is at risk.
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