Or, responses to my question.
AbsurdLakefront (forgive me I forgot your real name), Tyz, and Matt want me to go along with the captain and first officer or pilot or chief medical officer to explore some alien thing (The Away Team!) and to die early on, to show the audience just how serious the situation is.
Lukas and Vladimir want me to wear blue, and be a Vulcan or a medical officer or hologram or something like that. I suspect Vlad just likes the color blue (evidence, username “VladimirBlue”) making Lukas the only one concerned about my health should I join Starfleet.
In conclusion, it might be fun to be a redshirt, but blue is nice too, so I’m still completely undecided.
