Redshirt: When an adjacent friendly character that's 100 points or less or has the Starfleet keyword would be KO'ed, you may instead KO Starfleet Security Officer. If you do, turn the friendly character to its last non-KO click.

If the Starfleet Security Officer and the adjacent Starfleet keyworded character would be KO'ed from the same attack, can I still choose to KO the Starfleet Security Officer to save the other character?

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Does the character with the Starfleet keyword need to be adjacent to Starfleet Security Officer in order to KO the Starfleet Security Officer instead?