My brother does not text me often, but when he does, it’s always over something important and salient. Like this.
Steve: Scalzi’s new book is fun.
Me: That it is. Not that I’m bitter that you read his book before mine or anything. Sob.
Steve: Is yours an ebook?
Me: Yes. Oh the woe. The ignominy
Steve: Tell you what, if you write a Star Trek spoof, it’ll be next on my list.
Me: I am so tweeting this.
Steve: And your book is more expensive for the Nook than his.
Me: You’re totally getting coal for Christmas.
Steve: E-coal.
Me: Cheap e-coal.
Steve: In a red shirt.
Me: Oh, I’ll redshirt you all right.
Steve: I need that at Christmas. Santa has a red shirt too.
Me: How is he still alive?
Steve: And he keeps jumping into fires.
Me: Baffling.
The question about Santa is a valid one, I’ll have to admit. How does he survive so many away missions in that red shirt?
He’s a Redshirt leader–Heads of security (Yar excepted) generally survive away missions!
Even Yar GENERALLY survived away missions. There was just the one time…
You need to check out the card game REDSHIRTS. Trust me.
Santa is a TNG-era (Command) red shirt. In the TNG-era, it’s the gold shirts who expect to die on away missions.
Maybe he’s from engineering? Like Scotty?
Santa’s red shirt is wool, polyester red shirts are what kills them on Star Trek!
Ahahaha!
Yar, was an example of the death of the Gold Shirt
omg, that is so fab.
You would like my brother. He’s cool, except for the part where he hasn’t read my book yet.
How is Santa still alive?
Waves fingers mysteriously… Maaagic.
Jeff S.
On the other hand, I knew there was a reason that I don’t like or wear polyester.
The jumping into fires explains the coal.