As often I talk about Red shirts, this is tempting!
This is a mashup of Dr Seuss & Star Trek.
Another Seuss derivative?
One pill
Two pills
Red pill
Blue pill
So why’s the RED shirt guy dead?
In Star Trek, those with red shirts usually die.
He’s just resting. He’s dead tired? 
When I was in the corporate world, contract and regulary employees would joke around with this. The contract employees had a photo badge with a red background and regular employees had white. The contract employees, unfortunately, could be done away with easily or be part of the Star Trek “Away Team.”
The Star Trek lore of the Red Shirt “Away Team” started due to special effects or the lack of. The “Away Team” would accompany the main stars to a planet, and often a fodder member would be killed by an alien or hostile plant. Well, it is a lot easier to add to their death by moisting a red shirt versus the other colors. Thus, red shirts die in Star Trek.
In the Star Trek: The Original Series (circa 1966), the one with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, different colored uniforms signify a crewman’s role on their particular ship. The lowest rank of ensign were also given red uniforms.
They were usually nameless crewman who were introduced, then killed. Of the 55 crew members killed in the series, 24 were wearing red shirts. It’s become a running gag about the survival rates of redshirts.
In the original Star Trek whenever they beamed down to a new planet there would be “extra” actors that we had never seen before. They wore red shirts and they usually got killed by the subversives on the plant. “Red Shirt” has become known as the something doomed or at the very least, ignored.
On ST:TOS were away teams always all male?
No, there were numerous episodes with women as members of the landing parties (calling them “away teams” didn’t become a thing until ST:TNG). For example: the pilot episode “The Cage”, “The City On The Edge Of Forever”, “Mirror, Mirror”, “The Gamesters of Triskelion”, “I, Mudd”, “Plato’s Stepchildren”, “Who Mourns For Adonis?”, “Space Seed”. There are several more episodes which I can’t remember the titles of. In a lot of these, the woman was Lt. Uhuru, but there were several epidodes with different female characters.
In the TOS universe, the members of the Security teams wore red shirts (as did Engineering, like Scotty). As Security, they were naturally the first ones who would face any dangers that cropped up - creatures that can suck out your blood, creatures that can suck out your salt, flowers that shoot poison darts (yes, that really was in one episode), hostile aliens with disintegrator guns, exploding rocks (yes, that also really was in one episode), etc. You know, the usual things one encounters when exploring strange, new worlds in the final frontier…
As the actors playing the Security guys were always extras, wearing a red shirt became synonymous with someone being generally expendable.
He’s not dead, he’s resting… Probably pining for the fjords.
Was going to get one because I love to spread the humor to those who get it but noticed it’s the heather fabric so I won’t. The heather colors have spandex or similar blended with the cotton and thus are too clingy. I like to stretch the shirts to be baggier but can’t with heather fabric. It’s too bad because I like the shirt a lot.
Hi there. Our heather are:
Heather colors are cotton/polyester blends
That’s what I thought. I asked because the shirt shows only males.
There’s a meme out there about Scotty be the only one man enough to wear a red shirt and live.