Which does come back to design and purpose- I don't think anyone had "hit your enemies from a thousand yards away" in mind. This applies to everything except maybe the X-699. The general impression I get is that energy weapons are powerful but don't have a lot of reach, at least as designed. Pistol range is extremely close-in, though far from useless. Accelerators can put a lot more rounds downrange, though energy weapons would only need a few hits because they'd probably (there was a debate on this a while back) bypass barriers. I was thinking of these weapons in comparison to Mass Effect accelerators rather than the SGC's weaponry. Even the Goa'uld aren't actually dumb, they just have different priorities from what we might consider sensible if projectiles could be relied upon to batter down shields, personal and starship, better than energy, they probably would have used them instead. non-Goa'uld) energy weapons in Stargate are superior - if you have naquadah to power it, which is kind of the problem. My point is that Stargate energy weapons are actually pretty damn good, and given the kind of characteristics we see in both properties, the better-designed (i.e. The Wraith stunner is vastly superior as a non-lethal sidearm, and could probably be fiddled with to be lethal - it shuts down motor control, you could probably change it to hit the brain stem instead and stop people's hearts.įor the X-699, are we sure that's a proper weapon? The impression I got from the episode (which admittedly I watched ages ago) was that it was just meant to be a public prototype, that they could show to the world to get them used to energy weapons, so that they could start to push better energy gun technology into the public sphere.įor Ronon's gun and the Lantean guns, true, although I don't remember Ronon's gun having any difficulties at normal pistol ranges.
Zats were designed to be optionally-lethal sidearms, and I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the Goa'uld designed them specifically so that they sacrificed effectiveness to cause more pain. The Kull Plasma Repeater is a better example of the same technology adapted for proper warfare, and kicks ass in both universes. Staff weapons sucked because they weren't designed for proper warfare, but for the intimidation of peasants and occasional skirmishes during (what I assume to be) the mostly-peaceful period of Ra's rule.
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