With all the advancements in technology they discovered over the years, they couldn't come up with something more formidable than automatic firearms, which represent fundamental technology that is over 100 years old?
The main problems with firearms are:
1. Limited ammunition.
2. Can be defeated or mitigated with personal armor, even with 20th century Earth technology.
This creates 2 problems with believability in SG-1
1. Extended firefights, as are often depicted throughout all of the series, couldn't actually happen, especially with the characters' ridiculous propensity toward the "spray & pray" firing "technique"; they simply couldn't practically carry enough ammo.
2. We have to believe that the Goa'uld wouldn't quickly upgrade the Jaffa's armor to defeat bullets.
With regard to #1, an e.g. FN P90 has a cyclic rate of 900 RPM, and the characters nearly always fire them on full-auto. Each magazine holds 50 rounds, which means it is empty in 3.33 seconds of sustained full-auto fire. To make matters worse, their beloved P90s are slow to reload, because the horizontal top-loading magazines don't simply drop-free and fall to the ground with the press of a button like with typical assault rifles, submachine guns, and semi-automatic handguns. They have to be manually removed with your free hand before another one can be put in its place.
Even if each character carried ten magazines (which they clearly don't), that's only 33.33 seconds' worth of sustained automatic fire, with of course, 9 awkward/slow reloads mixed in there.
Realistically, the Jaffa would have dominated them, if not for unbelievable writing conveniently in favor of the protagonists. The replicators would have overrun them almost instantly, if not for the writers pretending that each P90 or shotgun has the firepower of a crew-served squad-auto.
When we get to Atlantis we find that the firearms don't have enough killing power against the Wraith, particularly when they have recently "fed", yet still, no replacement for firearms is sought. They came up with "anti-replicator weapons", and even mass-produced them, yet they are still carrying P90s against the Wraith?
A rapid-fire energy weapon, like Anubis' "super soldiers" had, is what they needed (along with the option of dematerializing, like the 3rd shot of a "zat gun" does), and the super soldiers' armor wouldn't have hurt either. They wouldn't have even needed to reverse-engineer anything (unless they wanted to improve it), given that the Asgards have "replicator" technology (Star Trek style "replicator" I mean, rather than mechanical spiders), and by the end of SG-1, Earth has all the Asgard technology.
Speaking of the Asgard replicator technology, they should have been able to replicate ZPMs for that matter. Not that they had to wait until they got their hands on Asgard technology, given that any stargate or "beaming"-type transporter device is automatically a replicator, transporter, and dematerializer weapon by default, with some slight modifications depending on which of those already-built-in functions you want to focus on.
The main problems with firearms are:
1. Limited ammunition.
2. Can be defeated or mitigated with personal armor, even with 20th century Earth technology.
This creates 2 problems with believability in SG-1
1. Extended firefights, as are often depicted throughout all of the series, couldn't actually happen, especially with the characters' ridiculous propensity toward the "spray & pray" firing "technique"; they simply couldn't practically carry enough ammo.
2. We have to believe that the Goa'uld wouldn't quickly upgrade the Jaffa's armor to defeat bullets.
With regard to #1, an e.g. FN P90 has a cyclic rate of 900 RPM, and the characters nearly always fire them on full-auto. Each magazine holds 50 rounds, which means it is empty in 3.33 seconds of sustained full-auto fire. To make matters worse, their beloved P90s are slow to reload, because the horizontal top-loading magazines don't simply drop-free and fall to the ground with the press of a button like with typical assault rifles, submachine guns, and semi-automatic handguns. They have to be manually removed with your free hand before another one can be put in its place.
Even if each character carried ten magazines (which they clearly don't), that's only 33.33 seconds' worth of sustained automatic fire, with of course, 9 awkward/slow reloads mixed in there.
Realistically, the Jaffa would have dominated them, if not for unbelievable writing conveniently in favor of the protagonists. The replicators would have overrun them almost instantly, if not for the writers pretending that each P90 or shotgun has the firepower of a crew-served squad-auto.
When we get to Atlantis we find that the firearms don't have enough killing power against the Wraith, particularly when they have recently "fed", yet still, no replacement for firearms is sought. They came up with "anti-replicator weapons", and even mass-produced them, yet they are still carrying P90s against the Wraith?
A rapid-fire energy weapon, like Anubis' "super soldiers" had, is what they needed (along with the option of dematerializing, like the 3rd shot of a "zat gun" does), and the super soldiers' armor wouldn't have hurt either. They wouldn't have even needed to reverse-engineer anything (unless they wanted to improve it), given that the Asgards have "replicator" technology (Star Trek style "replicator" I mean, rather than mechanical spiders), and by the end of SG-1, Earth has all the Asgard technology.
Speaking of the Asgard replicator technology, they should have been able to replicate ZPMs for that matter. Not that they had to wait until they got their hands on Asgard technology, given that any stargate or "beaming"-type transporter device is automatically a replicator, transporter, and dematerializer weapon by default, with some slight modifications depending on which of those already-built-in functions you want to focus on.
Comment