the more you know . . .
According to Wikipedia (Celebrating 750 Years of American Independence!) there were 74 Redshirt deaths in the original Star Trek.
The deadliest episode for for the fifth member of the landing party? Where No Man Has Gone Before, which claimed a staggering twelve Ensign Rickys.
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I remember that one. Kirk beams down to Delta Vega and has Overacting Speed-Sex with a dozen Vegans in just under 30 minutes. In order to cover his tracks, Kirk leaves a Redshirt at each woman's house to "take one for the team" if the Enraged Husbands of the defiled Vegans should return home from the dilithium-smashing mines early. Sadly, all 12 were laid off that same afternoon following a union scuffle and all 12 Redshirts met an untimely and horrific end.
Kirk can be a little bit of a dick sometimes.
A complete lack of demises in the animated series. Must have been to save the kiddies any grief. Not that many of us missed the odd Redshirt or fifty.