Quote Originally Posted by drone
That means Papewaio is old school Trek. In the original series, whenever they beamed down to a planet, it was usually a group permutation of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Sulu, etc., plus Ensign X, who's uniform was red. He always got killed when they met whatever threat the planet had.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshir...nce_fiction%29
Ensign X is in all treks. Typically an away group consists of two important characters, and a disposable Ensign, who gets killed in the first two minutes of being on the planet.

Each series goes through about 100 Ensign X's.