Why can't Captain Kirk get a mulligan?

[Buster's Uncle]

Meh.  59?  Over a thousand.  If Starfleet deaths off-screen count, what about the four crews entirely wiped out +the very heavy casualties in the M4 games?

[Lorizael]

Whole crews being wiped only bring the percentages closer together. You'd need some instance in which no gold shirts were harmed but all the red shirts were wiped out to tip it the other way.

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't trust their base data, I don't trust the answers.

What kind of nerd would I be, anyway, if I let that 59 pass?

[Lorizael]

* Lorizael shrugs.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Starfleet_casualties_%2823rd_century%29

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm just going to point out, before I look, that the crew percentage figures given in the video were fanwank.  Place no faith in a stranger's butt-pull numbers...

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay - MA actually gives you the same 59 (Leslie and Galloway count, if one assumes adventures shown out of order instead of mystery resurrections) if the whole ships aren't counted.

-But the %#s for how many wore what are still non-canon butt-pull.

[Lorizael]

Well, by the 25 red shirt and 10 gold shirt deaths count, as long as there were at least 2.5 times as many ops as command personnel...