That a technologically inferior group or species can "sometimes" defeat a technologically superior group or species.
Robert Beltran says the Prime Directive is 'fascist crap'
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That a technologically inferior group or species can "sometimes" defeat a technologically superior group or species.
Custer's Last Stand? I think you mean the Glorious Victory of Crazy Horse.
Seriously it seems the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho were armed with a bit more than just bows and arrows.
Outnumbered 4 to one.
It was army training, more than the weapons is why Custer should have won if the numbers were more even.
Even if the natives tribesmen were superior combatants individually, its doubtful that they were taught to fight as a group against another group, even though by that point they had been fighting whitey for almost 400 years.
Not to mention, each other.
One of the silliest things about Star Trek has always been how interchangeable and easy to use all the technology is, from uneducated people like the Kazon using stolen warp drives with no understanding of the physics behind them, to Tom Paris being able to fly any star ship he finds on the other side of the galaxy.
There was a question about this on Reddit (The Daystrom Institute sub) a few days ago asking about 'incompatible systems' in Star Trek and how everything just magically seemed to work together.
As should most people, at least the basics. I read off the Fascism manifesto in class during High School and people were shock that there were parts that they agreed with.
Seduction of the arrogant.
Yeah, when was the last time when people with spears and bows and arrows stole a nuclear device and figured out on their own how it worked?
Stargate.
Ancient Egyptian slaves with sticks fought alien Gods with lasers, kicked them off planet, and then 5000 years later finally started to figure out how to reverse engineer their technology.
We don't know how advanced the Klingons were in the 14th century, hours before the Hur'Q showed up. Maybe they were post atomic or maybe they were still trying to crack Warp two. All we know is that the Klingons were defeated, there were hundreds of millions dead and it was the 14th century.
Ancient Egyptian slaves with sticks fought alien Gods with lasers, kicked them off planet, and then 5000 years later finally started to figure out how to reverse engineer their technology.
We don't know how advanced the Klingons were in the 14th century, hours before the Hur'Q showed up. Maybe they were post atomic or maybe they were still trying to crack Warp two. All we know is that the Klingons were defeated, there were hundreds of millions dead and it was the 14th century.
Yeah, and according to vampire movies. You can defeat a vampire armed only with a clove or garlic and a wooden stake.
Well, I never understood their obsession with bladed weapons, especially one that is as clumsy and inefficient as their batleth.
A midget with a gun could kill half a dozen swordsmen before they could even get to him. Fact well illustrated in the movie Raiders Of The Lost Ark:
We saw in an episode of Deepspace Nine, that when Klingons attack, that they flood their drop zone with magic fake science crap so that energy weapons stop working.
If you've never fought Klingons before and aren't ready for your phasers to suddenly stop working as they're trying to cut you in half with a sword axe, you are pretty much fucked.
Post 2365, everyone should be carrying swords into battle, since, maybe it's a question of vanity, but the Borg refuse to create any counter measures against medieval weapons.
If you've never fought Klingons before and aren't ready for your phasers to suddenly stop working as they're trying to cut you in half with a sword axe, you are pretty much fucked.
Post 2365, everyone should be carrying swords into battle, since, maybe it's a question of vanity, but the Borg refuse to create any counter measures against medieval weapons.
Hence the advantage of having a chemical weapon on the side, just in case.
This is how slow I am.
Exactly how I feel about the Mirror mirror concept, 21st century Terrans overpower more advanced and stronger Vulcans to rule the galaxy? ROFLOLYeah, because we all know that when a bunch of sword wielding barbarians meet a group of people with highly sophisticated weaponry and science. The barbarians end up stealing the technology and making computers and television sets. Yeah, that makes sense!
The Mirror universe types lead by handyman ex-slave O'Brien build a super-duper Defiant duplicate in a matter of weeks. Stuff and nonsense.
Absolutely!
I preferred the implication in episodes like "Day of the Dove" that the Klingons maintained a proficiency with bladed weapons for cultural and ceremonial reasons. I suppose there may be some situations in 23rd or 24th century hand-to-hand combat where bladed weapons would prove useful. That time Sulu fought a Romulan on Nero's drill would not be one of those situations.
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