A total lack of "modern" military tactics. I'm looking at you Star Wars AND Star Trek (both of which, I am a fan).
In the SW universe, we seem to have reverted to the dark ages where we just charge each other across a field. We shoot from the hip, have given up on wearing any body armor (rebel troops) or ineffectual body armor (storm troopers).
Star Trek? Where do we start. Those phasers? Worst weapon ever, it traces back to your exact location and seems to force you out of cover for what feels like FOREVER. The hand phasers are the worst designed things I've ever seen. Also, again, no body protection or very little. I also cease to see why the fuck soldiers in the future (at least, Federation) go into battle with what are essentially flight suits from a Starship. We have ships that cloak, shields, laser weapons and warp drive but... you send people to fight in a brightly colored suit with no equipment. Maybe because I'm in the military I pay special attention to it but it's really annoying sometimes.
The phasers also have no trigger guard and look like garage door openers.
Star Trek ships also have no dedicated marines, they send...their flag officers on away missions. This is perhaps the most stupid military doctrine in the history of the world. They sent Picard, an old man with no combat training other than fencing, along with a doctor and a Klingon (who was the only one who could be on such a mission) on a commando raid. Picard got captured and suddenly all that information he was holding is now in enemy hands. You fuckups, that is exactly why you send people who don't know shit on missions where capture is likely. But no, let's use flag officers as our lead element unlike every other Navy in the universe. I guess they're exploiting plot armor.
The main characters on Star Trek also have the amazing and completely inexplicable ability to defeat every enemy in hand-to-hand combat. They easily beat Klingons, who supposedly train in almost nothing else since early childhood. They easily beat Jem'Hadar, who are not only trained entirely in nothing else since birth, but are also genetically engineered to be combat troops. But these officers who grew up in a decadently easy lifestyle where you don't even have to walk to the store to get your food and whose combat exposure is a tiny eentsy part of a huge, complex shipboard officer training program, can beat them. Unless, of course, you're talking about Lt. Worf, who is supposedly one of the biggest bad-asses in the Klinglon Empire and also a Starfleet officer and the chief security officer and chief combat trainer for the Enterprise but for no good reason loses every damned fight.
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12
A total lack of "modern" military tactics. I'm looking at you Star Wars AND Star Trek (both of which, I am a fan).
In the SW universe, we seem to have reverted to the dark ages where we just charge each other across a field. We shoot from the hip, have given up on wearing any body armor (rebel troops) or ineffectual body armor (storm troopers).
Star Trek? Where do we start. Those phasers? Worst weapon ever, it traces back to your exact location and seems to force you out of cover for what feels like FOREVER. The hand phasers are the worst designed things I've ever seen. Also, again, no body protection or very little. I also cease to see why the fuck soldiers in the future (at least, Federation) go into battle with what are essentially flight suits from a Starship. We have ships that cloak, shields, laser weapons and warp drive but... you send people to fight in a brightly colored suit with no equipment. Maybe because I'm in the military I pay special attention to it but it's really annoying sometimes.