10 Crappy Jobs Of The Future (According To The Movies)

3. Red Shirt

Look, we know we just said that the world of Star Trek is a wonderful utopia without conflict, but we all know that's a load of nonsense. That's certainly the line that everybody always brings out - like that bit in First Contact where Captain Picard talks about how money doesn't exist and people do jobs just cos they fancy it - but they stick to that about as often as they do the Prime Directive. By which we mean, barely ever. Working for the Federation isn't all peaches and gravy €“ or at least, it isn't if you're wearing a red shirt. Presumably the main crew of the Enterprises worked their way up from lowly engineer or security officer roles, but glob knows how. They always die. It's become such a cliché that the red shirted characters always die that "redshirt" has become a name for stock characters introduced in a story purely for the purposes of killing them off soon after. Which implies that this alternate, happy future is almost exactly the same as the one with constant warfare, since there's still a big government throwing people at bad guys and letting them get killed. In fact this would actually be worse, because everyone would be pretending stuff was fine, even when you and your mates were getting phasered in your dozens. You sign up to to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. You'll 100% more likely to just die.