Regarding characterization, don’t expect a lot here, this isn’t that kind of book. (if you knew the planet was over run with sandworms or flesh eating viruses, why the hell would you send someone down in an unarmed shuttle without environments suits anyway? Also, whoever thought it would be hilarious to wire explosives into onboard control panels has a really sick sense of humor)Ī few quick words on characterization and dialog. Should he investigate? Or should he just shut up, avoid as many away missions as he can, and make peace with the fact that eventually a sandworm or flesh eating virus or stray phaser shot or exploding control panel or something will eventually kill him? What the hell is he, a redshirt or something? The more Dahl gets to know the patterns of the ship, the stranger everything begins to look, and everyone else seems OK with the status quo. Even worse, Dahl learns, the more senior officers on each away mission, the higher the likelihood of an ensign or junior officer getting injured or killed.
After inadvertently volunteering for future away missions and then getting settled in, Ensign Dahl notices something very strange: every time a senior officer visits the lab looking for away mission volunteers, his lab-mates make themselves conspicuously and busily absent. Also? it’s fucking hilarious.Įnsign Andrew Dahl has just got the posting he’s been dreaming of – the xenobiology lab on the Intrepid, the flagship of the Universal Union. I found Redshirts to be hysterically funny, completely off the wall, full of sarcastic wit and absolutely brilliant. Scalzi starts out spoofing science fiction shows that feature terrible science, but ends up faithfully honoring the spirit of those same shows while at the same time boldly going completely meta and self-aware. Ok, you don’t have to be quite as much of a trekkie geek as I am to enjoy Redshirts.
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