Avid Star Trek fans may jump to the episodes for evidence, since there are technically more redshirt deaths shown, but Grime points out that we’re only seeing half the story from that perspective, and we have to look at the total crew numbers of each profession to get an accurate reading of the ship’s actual mortality rates.
Enter mathematician James Grime, who has been exposing the legit science behind Star Trek with his lecture “Star Trek: The Math Of Khan.”
Via Space.com, we now have facts from an actual mathematician that prove wrong everyone who thought the original series’ crimson-clothed security personnel and engineering were the most doomed.