Some things annoy me!

Welcome to the amazingly fun segment: Some things annoy me! Here I will express my trouble understanding why some things are done, or not done in sci-fi and fantasy. Enjoy my rant…

Stargate, the case of the deadly bullets

In the Stargate universe humans discover they are part of a large network of gates that run across the galaxy. They travel to different planets seeking allies and new technology so they can defeat the evil Goa'uld that have clamed the galaxy as theirs to rule.  The concept is good, the characters interesting and the villains are evil. This makes for exciting episodes with the various stargate crews arriving on foreign planets in peace only to end up in a wild array of misunderstandings costing lots of lives every time.

This was ok for a while, as the SG-1 team didn’t have (many) energy-based weapons, only guns with lead bullets. But than the SG-1 discovers a military camp where young men are trained to impersonate SGC personnel to infiltrate Earth, and they use replicas of earth weaponry to do this. The difference is that instead of training with blanks they use bullets with energy stun effect.

SG-1 -obvious spoiler – saves the the kids in training and all is well, or is it? After this episode SG-1, Atlantis and SGU all continue to use lead bullets, causing the piles of dead people because of the misunderstandings we talked about before. They cannot replicate the energy stun bullets? Oh come on, they could do that. Always have a stun clip in the gun, that way you can avert killing potential allies, change to lead army if real enemies appear.

This has always bothered me.
It makes no sense…