We repeat: Baddest. Redshirt. Ever

Had the first of two weekend Trek sessions yesterday: Jason playing Betazed Ambassador Darius Rossad & Ensign Bernie Liefson, Evynrude playing security crewman Xian Coy Mahn. A full write up later, but there was one scene I wanted to mention.

Having been tractor beamed by an Orion Pirate ship, the crew of the USS Adlai Stevenson hatched a desperate plan - once inside the enemy shields they would beam Coy Mahn and an engineer into the enemy ship to disable the Orion's tractor beam and impulse engines. Unfortunately firing a phaser would be detected by the Orion's internal sensors, so they'll have to do it hand to hand. Coy Mahn and Crewman M'Batu appear on an Orion Transporter pad to the shock of the green-skinned pirate crewman. Xian, who beamed over in a crouch, leaps off the pad, over the control panel and into the hapless Orion, slamming his skull into a bulkhead.

Xian: OK, we're clear.

M'Batu, incredulous at the efficient violence: You do this sort of thing a lot?

Xian shrugs, then nods.

M'Batu, terrified at the implications: I am never beaming down to a planet.

We got a real chuckle out of that. I think Xian's going to fit in just fine.