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…

Where is my Hard Sci-fi?

I appreciate most types of Sci-fi, whether it be Time travel, post apocalyptic or alien invasion. But where is my hard sci-fi? There is no Sci-fi on air now where people fly around the galaxy in spaceships. In olden times we had Different kinds of Star treks, Stargates, Farscape, and even a comedy one, red dwarf.

As Stargate Universe was canceled we lost our last show, and just as it was 

getting good to damn it!

What do we have?

In the British sci-fi show Outcasts (first episode spoiler ahead) they are on a planet somewhere, but except for the ship that arrived and exploded in the first episode there is no signs of the Outcasts colonizing other planets soon.

Falling skies deals with the aftermath of and alien invasion and the surviving humans trying to fight back, I don’t see that moving into space.

We need some hard sci-fi on TV and soon, I am sure Roman of Party Down would agree.

Why they did not make Star trek Titan, with Riker in his first command I will never know. 

At least we can look forward to the Star Wars Live – lets sell some action figures show to appear in the next 4-8 years…