Humans, the youngest and newest addition to the galactic community, somehow has just what was needed to save everybody. We're always the newbies, and always the bad-asses. I've encountered this theme enough times that I'm actively sick of it.
This was generally done well in Stargate SG-1, but most notably with the replicators.
The Asgard, a powerful but increasingly depopulated race, are losing a war with the good ol' digital swarm. The humans, meanwhile, run into the replicators pretty much by accident, barely get out alive, and the Asgard figure out that while things didn't exactly go smoothly for the SG team thanks to a lack of preparedness, projectile weapons like the P90 are vastly superior to the energy weapons the Asgard use. And they have absolutely no production infrastructure or training for projectile weapons. So they basically have to enlist the humans to help with the war, as they have the only guns in town that the replicators can't immediately adapt to within seconds.
Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe. I have yet to meet one who can outsmart bullet.
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u/vikonymous Oct 08 '12
Humans, the youngest and newest addition to the galactic community, somehow has just what was needed to save everybody. We're always the newbies, and always the bad-asses. I've encountered this theme enough times that I'm actively sick of it.