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Red Shirt's Lament

from Originals by No-Win Scenario

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A song for Star Trek's nameless, expendable crew members.

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He said phasers set to stun, and I'm gonna do my best
Though I'm just a lowly security officer
I've been doing just fine on this five-year mission
And I know that I can handle whatever comes
But we beam down to the planet
And there's phaser fire all around us
And I seem to be the only casualty

Expendable? Is that all I am to you?
Do I really have to die to show this planet's dangerous?
Expendable? I don't even have a name
I guess I should have known when they gave me a red shirt
I was doomed

I was killed by Gary Mitchell with his psychic powers
I was eaten by a salt vampire
I was pushed over a cliff by an enormous, ugly android
I was killed by a creature called a Gorn
The bridge crew is invincible
But I'm not impervious
To the deadly creatures we meet out there

Expendable? Is that all I am to you?
Do I really have to die to show this planet's dangerous?
Expendable? I don't even have a name
I guess I should have known when they gave me a red shirt
I was doomed

And maybe someday they'll remember
All of us who gave our lives on Starfleet's behalf
And they'll raise a monument
And on that monument
"He's dead, Jim" will be my epitaph

Expendable? Is that all I am to you?
Do I really have to die to show this planet's dangerous?
Expendable? I don't even have a name
I guess I should have known when they gave me a red shirt
I was doomed

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from Originals, released February 14, 2020

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