I so want to adopt this - although I don't see the PCs surviving it... oh, hang on, that's what red shirts are for!
LOL, I don’t remember if it got posted here or not but someone (with way WAY more time on their hands than I!) catalogued all deaths on screen in Star Trek TOS and determined that, in fact , it was Gold shirts (command personnel) who actually had the highest
*rates* of death.