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[–] kettuli@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

In Star Trek they have society shaping technology, in Stargåte they have rifles. That go pew pew. Not exactly the same thing.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tell that to the Goa'uld system lords. Or the replicators.

Oh, wait, you can't, the fifth race went pew pew and shaped their societies out of existence.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, wait, you can’t, the fifth race went pew pew and shaped their societies out of existence.

Only because those societies were trying to shape everyone else out of existence

[–] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The fifth race didn't have a problem with the Paradox of Tolerance.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Nox never seemed to have an issue.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And in Star Trek they would definitely intervene in the Goa’uld Empire situation, as they did in https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons_(episode), https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Apple_(episode), or any other of the thousands of situations where the captain of the Enterprise decided to punch a god in the mouth.

But not so much in Justice, and in that one Picardy was like "nah, the prime directive doesn't apply to killing the son of my side piece"

[–] bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 days ago

Later on they got advanced technology that could be considered society shaping though

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stargate is also about a conflict with a much more advanced society that has interstellar travel and uses it to oppress as many worlds as possible. The cat is out of the bag a far as any concern about interfering goes. Also, humans are the less advanced civilization here, and a lot of the time they're arming other humans.

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The strangest thing is that special ops officer wasn't passing out old Soviet arms and camo pants like lollipops and make a human fighter resistance.

you neglected to mention C4