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> It didn't apply to any redshirt when TNG started and it carried over to Voyager and DS9. Then it was "every nameless officer can die". So, redshirt or not, everyone who wasn't a main character was in danger. [/bq]

 
That's because division uniform colors got swapped. Security was now gold (brown) rather than red. So nameless brown shirts died instead. But the trope had already been established, so "Red Shirt" lived on.

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It didn't apply to any redshirt when TNG started and it carried over to Voyager and DS9. Then it was "every nameless officer can die". So, redshirt or not, everyone who wasn't a main character was in danger. [/bq]
That's because division uniform colors got swapped. Security was now gold (brown) rather than red. So names brown shirts died instead. But the trope had already been established, so "Red Shirt" lived on.