Dr wars and Dr trek seem obvious. But Dr gate is an enigma.

Didn't the movie take it a step further?

Guns couldn't get thru personal shields, so they were going to use a bow or throw a spear or something.

But I think Star Wars logiced it away the best. Ballistic weapons take a shit ton of logistics, energy blasters could just be charged by anything electrical.

It's less than an AR15 is worse in a single soldiers hands, it's that a blaster is easier to get into millions of troopers hands and keep them firing.

That 100% makes sense, and once militaries made the switch, it would make ballistic ammo insanely expensive and only used by wealthy bounty hunters, and only then in scenarios where they need the narrow advantage. They'd still default to a blaster.

In Stargate, the ballistic weaponry was the most effective measure against the Replicators (until they eventually developed the special anti-replicator weapon). Asgard technology was decades ahead of our own, but they had to admit that shotguns were actually better at defending from Replicators than any weapon they had.

This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class Dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!

I always thought they should establish in some of these universes that fabric technology has progressed to the point where ordinary clothing is bulletproof, which is why they need glowy beam weapons. They could've done that in Star Trek, but I guess it was more important to show off Shatner's chest.

Heh, that was a fun episode. I think it was a grenade rather than C4 though...

Now there's an oft forgotten body horror.

With C4 the shelves would have a higher probability to go up at least, I'd imagine.

I guess I don't know enough about light saber physics to know what kind of modifications you'd have to make. But it's a least something a rogue could do with it; nothing's as good as a blaster at your side.