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Originally Posted by JCurwen3
Strangely though some sci-fi seems to have this kind of scenario "fit". In the Stargate franchise, the Earth HT automatic projectile weapons like machine guns seemed at least the equals of the UT energy weapons much of the time. The aliens mostly had the advantage due to non-weapons tech, like personal force shields, occasional mind control, hardier metabolisms, and, of course, having powerful assault vehicles that could fire from the air or from space. When they faced off against the replicators, it was pretty much only the HT weapons that could deter them, with the UT blasters being worse than useless against them.
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That's specifically because the enemy didn't bother making effective personal weapons, not that they couldn't. There's even an episode in Stargate where it's lampshaded - the staff weapons are for terror (and style), but aren't all that useful in actual combat due to being horribly inaccurate and slow-firing compared with the Stargate team's TL8 guns.
There are some other alien personal weapons in the Stargate franchise that are just as good as, if not better than, the TL8 weapons - just the primary adversary didn't use them.