Why are Ancient shields weaker than Ori or Asgard? Why don't the Wraith ships have shields?
Answer: Then Earth battlecruisers would be DOA (dead on arrival, since railguns are ineffective against mothership shields) against Hives.
It is hard to believe that Hives ships such as this can destroy Ancient warships.
Thus Ancient ships were downgraded: Weaker shields and no lasers.
That is also the reason why the Asuran ship was weak (it did no damage we can see against the Apollo). How else can downgraded Hives and cruisers fight against the Asurans?
Conclusion: All this mediocrity was necessary because of the inherent weakness of Earth ship weapons.
The writers could have gotten around this by not destroying powerful allies of Earth: Asgard, Tollans and To'kra. God forbid if other species aside from humans did any damage against a powerful enemy. And sharing tech with Earth? Almost no way. Just to keep Earth the enormous underdogs who miraculously win always.
Realistically, SGC/Earth beating the G'ould is akin to the Roman Army beating the US army of the 21st century. Let's not mention the Ori, Replicators or Wraith.
Answer: Then Earth battlecruisers would be DOA (dead on arrival, since railguns are ineffective against mothership shields) against Hives.
It is hard to believe that Hives ships such as this can destroy Ancient warships.
Thus Ancient ships were downgraded: Weaker shields and no lasers.
That is also the reason why the Asuran ship was weak (it did no damage we can see against the Apollo). How else can downgraded Hives and cruisers fight against the Asurans?
Conclusion: All this mediocrity was necessary because of the inherent weakness of Earth ship weapons.
The writers could have gotten around this by not destroying powerful allies of Earth: Asgard, Tollans and To'kra. God forbid if other species aside from humans did any damage against a powerful enemy. And sharing tech with Earth? Almost no way. Just to keep Earth the enormous underdogs who miraculously win always.
Realistically, SGC/Earth beating the G'ould is akin to the Roman Army beating the US army of the 21st century. Let's not mention the Ori, Replicators or Wraith.
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