@@ironboy3245 Yes, but really it’s only advantage is it doesn’t need ammunition, assuming the battery is long lasting. It’s accuracy and hitting power against flesh and light armor is actually less effective. We think of bullets as low tech, but kinetic projectiles are remarkably efficient
@@ravenmoon5111 im pretty sure it works well against flesh and light armor. plasma burns at 11,000 degrees c minimum. That's enough to melt steel armor plates, since steel melts at 1425 degrees c. and temperatures that high will cause instant third degree burns on just about anything. You will not survive without a field hospital. do not forget, weapons are not only made to kill. More often, shooting to wound is more efficient, since your enemy will have to direct logistics to keep the wounded treated and the troops supplied. how often can they replace armor plating if it gets melted every engagement? Also, the conductivity of steel would burn whoever was wearing the plate pretty badly as well, second degree burns at best
@@ironboy3245 All we have to go on is the lore of the show. In this scene it’s proven that the P90’s accuracy and rate of fire are superior. While I don’t argue about what a good plasma weapon SHOULD do, as you can see here, the staff weapon lacks that hitting power and due to its very poor design, would be both bulky and inaccurate. Want to see a proper plasma rifle, check the clips from the Terminator. Now, that was a weapon meant to kill
@@stejkoman what? No, the P90 wad never a 9mm. What are you talking about? The hole reason why the P90 was designed and build in the first place was because the old 9mm SMGs could not penentrate Kevlar body armour and NATO wanted a replacement.
What do you mean "muzzle control?" Is it the way he lifts the weapon and points it into Carter's face? I'm sure he had his safety on and his finger off the trigger.
@@bsgfan1 Your right, that is a big no-no. But to be fair she was portraying a strong- confident woman that sci-fi liked to have to attract female viewership, she probably had confidence she wouldn't hit them. Kind of like William Tell and the apple
2:35 Major Carter has a good sense of weapon safety handling. Even though I'm sure what they used were props, the reaction of her's when McGuyver pointed the P90 at her was a genuine reflex.
@Kakashi Hatake I can agree with this, specifically for the P90. It’s built for close quarters, but it’s not too hard to believe that SG teams’ P-90s are otherwise adjusted for longer range fights.
@@BALIST0N don’t get me wrong I love tarky I have everything level 3 except my Bitcoin farm that’s still lvl 1 but filled with all ten graphics cards but the ranging needs to be fixed ASAP bullets either drop to fast or shoot to high and since there isn’t proper ranging it fucks any kind of long range shooting obviously if your running guns with there proper bullets it doesn’t effect it to much but no tarkov isn’t up there yet
Instinctive shooting, it's an art. You can still use "point of aim" techniques with an unsighted weapon too; they just take more practice than setting a sight picture on a zeroed sight.
@@afewspokesloose2699 Also the weapon is along, straight bar. The way he holds it makes it almost like an extension of your body unlike a bow. So it's not just instictive shooting.
Cocky, smarmy, smug. Colonel "Jack" O'Niell is a prime example of raw manly anti-intellectualism. But then again ... Richard Dean Anderson has been judged as a "second-rate" actor, is worth over $30 million and might even become President one day, lol, I guess I'm doing it wrong, haha.
+P the funny thing is, Jack O'Neill was actually highly intelligent. He was never anti-intellectual and he always recognized how valuable the advanced knowledge the Carter and Jackson brought to the table.
Leadership points for not feeling humiliated and instead, happily acceptd and turning it into a celebration. I still want a p90 well ps90 considering civvie. Just on principle
I used to have a p90. Amazing and excellent gun. Don't get one. I sold mine because ammo 5 7x28 is impossible to find and it's extremely expensive. Also extra mags are like 60 bucks. Also also the ps90 has a stupid barrel.
I love the humor that Rich Dean Anderson added to his Jack O'Neill character. The "Hey, you, in the skirt, get that target swinging a little" is one of my favorite humorous lines from the series.
"Just make sure you get one thing right! Spell my name with two "L"s. There is another Colonel O'Neill ... only one "L" ... He has no sense of humour!"
Fun fact - they badly wanted RDA for this show bc he was just coming off MacGyver. He asked what he could do with the character. They said (it turned out wisely) he could do whatever he wanted. And Jack O'Neill 2.0 was born. Oh, RDA said he didn't want to be disrespectful to the Air Force, so he asks a general one day if his portrayal was too smart ass and cynical for an Air Force officer. The General said RDA was pretty much nailing it. He'd worked with plenty of officers way more smartass and cyincal than Jack O'Neill.
@@leifhietala8074 Technically but the terms are generally interchangeable If you asked another infantryman for an extra clip rather than an extra magazine he would still know what your talking about and yhats whats important. Unlike for instance when any scoped rifle and sometimes even pistol chambered carbine is called a sniper.
I always liked Teal'C’s support and admiration for Sam in this scene. He and Jack know her value in battle and know she doesn’t need their support, but they’re proud to give it to her and to be brothers in arms. The writing and acting of this entire scene... I don't need it but it reminds me why SG1 is my favorite TV serie since more than 20 years.... ❤️🔥
@@therudecanadian8068 You'd be correct. In an interview years later, the armorer stated that for realism unloaded but real firearms were used as often as possible. Rubber replicas were only used in running/ action scenes that didn't involve shooting. The entire crew, including extras, were extensively trained using real live ammo. All gun fights where there is reloading and clearing of weapons is the cast reacting to the firearms not scripted. There are several times in the show where both main characters and extras actually clear jams and perform reloads on the fly. To add to this and, much to the dismay of the actors, full power blanks were also used as often as possible. This gives the firearms a feeling of realism that can't be matched by CGI it was also apparently well loved by the sound techs as they got cool and unique sounds that couldn't else wise be achieved.
@@bishop4077Dismay isnt the word I'd use. Ben Browder and Michael Shanks both spoke positively about it. The only negative thing cast members have said about using the real guns is whenever they had to use sparking pellets in a running firefight. The actors would have actual pellets shot at the ground around them, and sometimes it would kick debris around cause small cuts on their ankles. They apparently loved the blank rounds thoughs.
I do like the analysis by Col. O'Neill about the purpose of a weapon as compared with another. The sheer destructive power & technical advancement of the staff weapon vs. the simpler but more lethal function of the P90. Sort of a lesson on what any particular weapon is best suited for.
Really makes sense too, when you consider that the goa'uld have been using staff weapons since humans were fighting back with slings & bows. They never had any need to advance because their technology was so far beyond that of the humans they were enslaving that they got complacent in their roles as "gods" & never considered having to square up against an actual military threat.
@@SeraphimCramer kind of like chariot warfare in the Bronze Age. The tech was out dated but because all the major powers had stopped making serious war on each other they didn’t update weapon systems. Then the sea peoples started invading with iron tipped weapons and Calvary which just destroyed chariot based warfare. The Egyptians were the only power to really adjust tactics and just barely beat the sea peoples using overwhelming numbers of spearmen and no chariots.
The staff weapon does have _one_ advantage besides intimidation factor... no need to reload. But if you're using the P90 effectively, you shouldn't _need_ to...
@@MrWolfstar8 Didnt the Egyptian kingdom survive just barely against the sea people only to collapse shortly after? pretty sure the only surviving kingdom was the Assyrian realm of which intelligently receded into their homeland to weather the storm.
A pretty good representation of Goa'uld weaponry: form over function, symbolic meaning over functionality. Also I genuinely enjoy how even after being at war with the Goa'uld for years, O'Neill still pronounces their name wrong.
Staff weapons deal greater damage and possess greater endurance than any comparable Earth longarm. Plus, energy weapon blasts aren't affected by gravity or wind. That weapon does have its uses.
I absolutely LOVE the level smugness in Carter and O'Neill after the demonstration, and rightly so. "Those of you who've gone up against us and survived... you know who you are" 😏😅😆
Unpopular opion: mass shootings are good because otherwise these people would be using indiscriminate weapons of terror instead of pin-point precise weapons of war. My opinion: If you're going to take my guns because of someone else committing a crime that's guilt by association - and the only association being ownership of an object.
@@DSiren Your unpopular opinion is wrong. Outside the fact that "weapon of war" is a meaningless qualifier most mass shootings happen with handguns. But I agree with the sentiment, if mass shooters really wanted to just kill people, they could just homebuild a bomb or rent a semi truck...
@@Dja05 I totally understand what you mean. IMHO the only gun control that would ever make ANY sense would be pistol control and the privilege of concealed carry. Ain't nobody going to ambush you with a rifle, ain't nobody going to pull a rifle out of their ass and get the drop on a cop. Ain't no way you'll hide a rifle from your ex before executing her, but hell yeah you can organize a militia with riflemen. The fact they're going after rifles despite the statistics and the basic fact that you can't surprise someone with a rifle, proves this is about all guns. When you see a rifle you know it's there, it's big and therefore will catch your eye better when it's moved. Then again, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED so I don't even support pistol control. Maybe a national pistol registry to make traffic stops safer, but not control.
@WystenDraco I really did phrase it wrong, but I agree with you entirely. However, I don't trust the government to determine who is or isn't mentally healthy, in fact I don't trust anyone with that kind of power. I am also of the opinion that we shouldn't be releasing those who we couldn't trust with a gun (in regards to ex-felons). I believe, once you serve your time, rightfully or wrongfully accused, you should be able to lawfully own a gun.
Combine the two weapons. Take a staff weapon, cut it down to just the plasma projector, add rifle grips and iron sights. Much higher accuracy, and much more ammunition than the P90. Plus it prevents the Jaffa from being dependent on Earth for ammunition. Add a sling on top so it is easier to carry hands-free. Plus you can put an under-barrel Zat on it, or reinforce the stock, or add a bayonet, or other fun stuff
@@JnEricsonx But then the question becomes: Are the ones flinching veterans who are afraid of the power of the P90, or are the ones not flinching the veterans because they’re used to the sound? For me, either is a possibility.
Note to anyone who wants to have prop guns in a movie/TV show: don't have P90's with transparent magazines. after you shoot 20+ rounds into something we can still see that there hasn't been a single bullet taken out of the damn thing.
Naw, you can just about see the brass coming out of the bottom of the weapon as she's firing. Most productions use real guns firing "hot" blanks to produce a more distinctive muzzle flash. Most likely the inconsistent number of rounds loaded is because of multiple takes.
This is the perfect example of a strong female lead character. No Mary Sue, no special ability just a strong and confident female and mutual respect between the males and the females. And because every body knows it, nobody hast to point it out! Maj. Charter has always been one of my favorite characters in TV history.
Overall humans had the best gear and training for ground combat to any of the other alien races. Idk why they always say we are primitive. True the rest of our tech might be but we`ve been developing weapons as long as mankind roamed the earth.
Taking a side that this is Sci-fi, any race that can travel between planets can call us primitives and the would be 110% right. Out of hollywood or books, we would be wiped out by any xenos race that can traver between planets.
Huma270490 Fair said , but still it depends on how the war is fought. They may have the engines and navigation to operate in space but that doesnt mean they can simply wipe out the rest of civilizations.
Mihail Radulov Because high tech ships means that they use rocks and sticks on a fight..... Normally every aspect of the technology has the same level, or do you know any country on Africa with a space program but no electricity?
to put it simply, if your civilization is adventurous and creative, your space traveling capabilities might be pretty advanced, where as your weapons might be poop by comparison, where a civilization that has known only war for thousands of years but has achieved conventional space travel is likely to have very powerful weapons tech, but their space tech may be lack luster. consider that these aliens are not like us humans and do not behave like us, they wouldn't evolve the same as us and neither would their technology.
Zakti If any xenos race come to earth with hostile intencions we would be so dead that fight against them would be 110% useless. In comparison it could be like a medieval kingdom fighting a modern army, a total annihilation( I think that is who the word is written on english)
Stormtroopers are very good shots. The 'stormtrooper aim' trope, is a myth. How bout when they boarded Leia's ship? Which side of that would you want to be on?
@@springbloom5940 You mean when the Stormtroopers were firing down a tight hallway filled with enemy targets? Uh...yeah. Of course they managed to actually hit something. I love how people bring up that scene like it's some kind of impressive feat of accuracy. There's really nothing impressive about it. They should've been completely slaughtered pushing through that tiny fatal funnel. The only thing that saved them was the defending Rebels being even more ridiculously inaccurate than the stormtroopers. It was laughable how they couldn't hold that doorway with that many guns focused on it. Nah. Stormtroopers are consistently shown to be cannon fodder that only achieve victory with overwhelming with numbers. Which side would I want to be on? Definitely not the stormtrooper's side. They suck.
@@springbloom5940 Go look up fatal funnel and how dangerous moving through it is, kiddo. Kinda the reason why it's called that. 10 armed and ready troops focused on that one small entry point and they barely hit anything. They're total garbage. And the attacking horde of stormtroopers were just blindly charging through and wildly firing down a narrow hallway crammed with targets at near point blank range. Laughably incompetent defending force and target rich environment in a confined space. There's nothing impressive here and definitely nothing that supports good stormtrooper aim.
@@Gunnar001 Your assertion appears to be that an assault can never succeed against against a basically competent defending force? Makes one wonder what we all have been training for, huh? Um, I know what a 'fatal funnel' is, dumbshit. I also know what massing a breach is 😒
@@tyrannicpuppy "only Jaffa." I'm going to give benefit of the doubt and assume this meant that Jaffa can super-heal, rather than any racist undertone.
The P90 is great and all, but can I just say how consistently awesome the staff weapon's special effects were during SG1. From the sound effect to the impact, and the glowing embers afterwards, it was just *neat*.
"This is a weapon of terror! It's made to intimidate the enemy! This is a weapon of war! It's made to rush B cyka blyat!" - O'Neill on some distant world in the 2000s.
The thing about staff weapons is how inconsistent the writers seemed to make them. It could blow giant chunks in walls and thick metal doors, but other times even on an un-armoured target the blast would be absorbed by the flesh and just leave a scorch mark or superficial wound when it should be blowing entire limbs off. Presumably this was because if it was actually consistent and did that then the show would have to increase its rating and things would be a lot darker having people's limbs being blown off every episode. In this clip the staff weapon made no notable hole in the wood even though the same staff weapons are used to blow holes in the bunker doors of the SGC in other episodes, they wanted to make the difference between the weapons seem stark just to drive the point home in this scene
Dudes in giant metal snake masks running across a desert planet, sky filled with flying pyramids, shooting plasma bolts out of some crazy staff looks pretty sick though. You have to consider the aesthetic factor. It has to look cool when you're kicking ass.
Technically, the Goa'uld's weapons of war are starships that can glass planets from orbit, genetically engineered viruses that can wipe out a planet in weeks, and microscopic naquadah enhanced explosives designed to detonate the Stargate and render a planet uninhabitable. SG-1 got incredibly lucky against the Goa'uld and if the Asgard hadn't bluffed earth into the peace treaty with the Goa'uld, the system lords would have sent a fleet of ships to blast earth into smoldering ruins.
That was true until they found the defense system in the Antarctic that ended up giving the Earth a fighting chance of self defense (sort of). And before you say that's ancient tech, not modern humans: the goauld are using ancient tech as well.
No. Firstly, as advanced as their tech was, most of Goa'uld's were little more than glorified warlords at this point. There was huge thing about human child of two of them having all the knowledge. It indicates that most of them actually don't have access to advanced knowledge, let alone understand just what exactly their devices do. Secondly, SG teams were made from the best Humanity had to offer at this point, men and women who spent all their lives on War, doing it out of sense of Duty, not because someone held them the at gun-point; it always produces better result for your people to give it all willingly. Thirdly, Stargate system was bottleneck for all would-be-invaders, and System Lords didn't knew cosmic coordinates 0f Earth until later in show, and by then, we had Asgard to help, and later Ancient Defence Post online. Fourthly, they were different from almost all other societes of Milky Way at this point. No one invaded us, no one forbid writing, learning. We were our own worst enemy. Goa'uld's could give us real point of unity in real life xD. Additionally, O'Neill is just about one of most dangerous humans in entire Galaxy at this point. He spent his whole life doing Black Ops operations, things that give normal people nightmares, just to keep us safe(at least, that is theory). When he talks about one weapon made to terrorize your enemy, and the other made to KILL your enemy, he damn well knows what is he talking about :P
@@Definitelylnterested the only true threat Goa'uld wise was Ba'al and Anubis, even then Ba'al was too egotistical to be taken seriously. now the Replicators.....they were a considerate threat. then the Ori arrived.
Can we talk about the fact that a scifi TV show such as Stargate (this specific season premiered in 2001) actually showed actors with trigger discipline? Seeing that was extremely rare at the time.
Thats how we survived, and now domimate, as a spicies. Kindsness and compassion dont deter preditors or put food on the table, being the most ruthless survivor does. Times havent really changed eother but the focus has shifted business and social standing.
@@Damnsaburna it's been a while since I've seen this show but I'll never forget O'Neill telling the douche bags of the episode "it's O'Neill...with two L's" as he holds up three fingers LMAO it was perfect and unexpected.
@@whynot5568 its also a joke on O'neil from the stargate movie whose name only has 1 L. That whole scene is 2 jokes at once and meta. This is why i fucking love stargate.
If I remember correctly it wasn't because FN paid them, but because there was a shortage of firearms available for the showrunners to use. FN's P90 happened to be available in large enough numbers, and honestly they look pretty cool... even if they aren't the most practical of weapons
@@williamnixon3994 I thought the main reason was because the P90 has downward ejecting. It was rarely seen in the first episodes, but I think to remember they had problems with hot cases flying sidewards and hitting the actors repeatedly, so they decided to use the P90 as SG-1's signature weapon.
One of the things I loved about this show was the action scenes. They were a soundtrack onto their own. Staff blast and guns popping off was like music
So ... By this point in the series the SGC has access to like, thousands and thousand of staff weapons, each containing an extremely efficient and long last power source, I always wondered why they didn't chop them up and use them to make man portable railguns.
they may have tried but it's probably not easy playing around with those things without causing a problem. plus without knowing the batteries actually capability's or how many it would take. much less the amount of voltage per current ratio they may simply not be compatible with earth tech just yet.
Blame Dr. Lee. He was in charge of the SGC's weapons development and he just made a 'better' staff weapon inthe form of the Xsomethingsomething. It's used in season 10 and the movie. Though admittedly railguns are just not good barring room temperature super conductors and while the gate IS that they never learned how to replicate the process.
@@unintentionallydramatic They absolutely did, the Prometheus integrates superconductive materials into its construction. Hell in Season 7 they develop a superconductive armored plate for standard plate carriers.
There are some much shorter, easier to use staff weapons shown in the last few seasons of SG1. They look like carbines in size relative to the full size things. They're used quite heavily in close combat.
Plus, the staff weapon has nearly unlimited ammunition. I wonder why they didnt compared it with a assault rifle. The staff weapon was desinged as a 60 meters effective weapon that also used as melee weapon and as torch. The plasma bursts should do more damage to the log in compare. There also exists a modifed short staff weapon called the sodan staff weapon. Well i must admit the design is outdated. The kull warriors got a similar weapon that fitted a forearm and fired much faster.
Not the first time I've noticed how Amanda Tapping took the show's weapons training seriously. That flinch seems like a genuine reaction and not a scripted one.
This was one of my favourite moments in the entire series. "This is a weapon of terror. It's made to... intimidate the enemy." Discarding the unwieldly staff with all the ceremony due an empty beer can, he deftly readies the P90 slung to his chest as he continues. "This is a weapon of war. It is made to *KILL* the enemy." Plasma weapons would have crap range anyway- plasma is hard enough to contain with dense magnetic fields generated by heavy electromagnets, and would disperse quickly even in a vacuum. Trying to fling a glob of the stuff through a soup of atmospheric gas would be like trying to throw a loosely-packed snowball underwater. You'd be lucky to scorch anything more dense than lint over any appreciably distance. Even if we assume some form of magnetic containment McGuffin that magically maintains the integrity of the plasma ball/bolt as it tunnels through the air (which must be the case for such weapons as seen), the projectiles are slow (as in, you can dodge that sucker if you see it coming), and the weapon's operator is exposed by both the stance required to use the weapon, and the tracer-like nature of its projectile. We know that the clumsy weapons provided to the Jaffa are nerfed by the Goa'uld. You don't give your best weapons to your slaves after all. A lower-yield, rapid-fire version in a more practical format might have made the average Jaffa mook considerably more dangerous. As it is, a Jaffa's first glimpse of an automatic firearm of the conventional kind - the harsh rattle of its report from disciplined and agile warriors at range, the catastrophic damage its invisibly fast projectiles inflict upon their targets, bloody holes being punched through armoured bodies with no flame or explosion but just a series of sickening thuds rending flesh and shattering bone - would be a terrifying and illuminating experience. Come to think of it, an RPG would be faster and considerably more destructive than a staff weapon, which merely scorches tree trunks and would likely be shrugged off by half-decent armour- one shot can do the job of twenty plasma staffs. I digress. You certainly wouldn't continue to underestimate the guys who can cut you in half at 300 yards while you're waggling your heavy boomstick in their general direction , so one can only assume that the dismissive one hadn't yet had that pleasure. Fortunately for him, his lesson was learned from the end of the weapon that doesn't macerate things. "...with gratitude ... and humility." Yeah. You know it. Bitch.
@@RonJohn63 Well....defense in a war setting. It's primary intent was for installation and airfield defense. Outstanding at close range, but purposefully designed to lose energy over distance very quickly.
@@RonJohn63 That's not what PDW stands for in a military context. And it absolutely was designed for military use. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_defense_weapon
P90 is ok and all but I always found it strange that it was stargates weapon of choice. An M4 or a HK416 would be a much more apt choice when you don't know what kind of situation you could be facing. These guns are far more effective in a wide variety of circumstances than the P90 which really is only better in terms of portability, and loses effectiveness quickly at long range.
To be fair, laser staves wouldn’t have had a large spread, or kick up much if any shrapnel, so as long as you weren’t in direct line of sight it wouldn’t be as dangerous as a human firing range
I'm a little older. I remember useing Smiggys in the early 70s. A simple 9mm sub machine gun. As BG on the show we used a variety of weapons prop disguised as future tech or alien. My favorite is a toss up between a prop made over WW 2 Nazi submarine flare gun and the Fully automatic hand gun. The hand gun fired almost as fast as the regular submachine guns.
This was the show of my childhood and early teen years. Such beautiful memories. Whenever i see it, even now, it gives me a feeling of wonder and calmness.
It's also huge and long, making it useless for close-quarters/indoor firefights. They may use it in a more traditional, melee manner, but it's just so long and cumbersome to lug around.
Captain Picard: "No, what about the Prime Directive? sorry but your enemies are not our enemies" Col. O'Neill: "There is nothing that a well placed C4 can't solve, here take 20"
I've always wondered how long a staff weapon lasts in terms of number of shots? Its clear a "slug thrower" is the superior weapon, with a weakness in ammunition. When your running a galactic empire mainly against technologically inferior species, your ammo problem is a lot more important your killing problem.
In "The Fifth Race" we see that it's powered with liquid Naquadah. That same power cell that O'Neill got out of a staff weapon is used in his one-time power booster to dial another galaxy. In other words, the power source of the staff weapons that usually just allow users to fire plasma blasts was also capable of creating a wormhole to another galaxy. It's definitely possible that a power cell for a staff weapon could eventually run dry, but most likely it would last years and years and years, even with regular combat use.
Considering what we know about Naquada? Probably literally and unironically a century. The entire SGC was supplied by a single mine for the whole series.
I wonder if O'Neill ever brought up that pesky little fact about P90 ammo being frappin' expensive. Or about having to manufacture the ammo and physically ship it to the soldiers using the weapon. Methinks staves are issued to Jaffa for more than just ceremony and terror.
Come one, more contracts to the military industry. Subcontractors of the U.S. military industry will be really happy and some top CEO (who are, by the way, friends with many Republican congressmen) will make $$$. :)
Yan Brassard To the detriment of the actual military logisticians who have to schedule Stargate trips, Prometheus voyages, etcetera just to get bullets to units out in the field.
Did they ever actually ship large numbers of P90s to the Jaffa? I think that was never really done anyway. Probably larger quantities of AR-15 deriviates that were being phased out due to more modern variants being introduced to the military, alongside the relatively cheap 5.56mm in large quantities. You can probably equip quite an army with that, although it indeed would require a lot of logistics. Then again: These staff weapons are being produced somewhere. We're never really shown, but the goa'uld (and possibly the free Jaffa later on) must have had a lot of facilities to produce and maintain their armor and weapons. Even though they are longer lasting than rifles are. So... maybe they sent some engineers who collaborated with Jaffa engineers and some defected goa'uld lead technicians / scientists to implement earth machinery into these facilities and mine for the ressources required to produce projectiles? Clearly the facilities capable of mass producing such intricate weapons as Zats would be able to shape a bullet to a specified form.
Guys, my point of view: The P90 is not an army weaponry. It's more of a scout, universal, compact ~ guerilla/commando weapon. There is a good reason why soldiers get m4. ( i don'T know the current version) So I think the point wasn't an army loadout. But training out strike teams. Jaffars usually go in big numbers, scattered and give off a lot of unaimed attacks. However if you advance in a small team, in forestry, or plan an attack! Than the P90 shines. With a couple of grenade, claymore, c4, everything is awesome. Also, later in the series Jaffars don't use any kind of earthling weaponry. To be honest, arming foreign armies with modern weaponry is something even the USA would fall from. It wouldn't bring rise to the economy, more like fall because it's from goverment money. That's basicly sucking out the blood of the economy. I'm sorry not to offend 'Muricans, but we speak hear of 100k-s of Jaffas. The amount of metal needed for that is a bit much. Even more if we see jaffa loses! I think they wanted to make commandos.
Wow.. you can really see the gun training in action. Even down to O'Neils finger pointing off the trigger. Just watched the behind the scenes video of the introduction of the p90. Producers thought it was a fake gun!
For those who wonder what the teflon coating part means, the 5.7x28mm is a completly straight cartidge, it has no case tapering. To aid in extracting, each P90 is covered in a special polymer .
You are spot on and absolutely correct. Most people think the projectile itself is “Teflon” coated to aid in light armor penetration (the SS190 needs no special coating to defeat level II body armor out to 200 meters) which is a common misconception. The 5.7x28 brass is straight walled to properly fit and feed in the straight 50 round magazine. A hard lube coating is applied to the brass to assist extraction from the chamber after firing.
The in-story reason that the SGC uses the P-90 is having an armor-piercing weapon that's both accurate and good in tight quarters is the _perfect_ weapon for killing Jaffa wearing wrought-naquadah plate.
@@samfazers8818 how the fuck is this comment even relevant to mine? it's either you're a troll who has nothing to do or just some kid trying to waste everyone's time
@@GeorgeMHarrison well lets see you are calling yourself JACK O'NEILL who is a character in the stargate series.... who earns money off people watching stargate and has got rather fat SORRY RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON BUT ITS THE TRUTH lol and who earns money off people watching their show....... what you were saying seemed more like advert... if you got offended at a simple statement maybe you do need to loose some weight and im 34 not some kid or troll lmfao
@@samfazers8818 got a problem with my name? just because i named myself after a character from the show doesn't mean i am him. how about do me a favor and go fuck off.
Powerful words for an episode that aired shortly after 9/11. For those who have read "A road not taken" by Harry Turtledove, the idea of different styles of weapons is very plausible.
@@ThirdLawPair And were designed chiefly to scare the hell out of primitive people, who were convinced it was magic being wielded by the servants of their gods
@@weldonwin Even the organizational structure of the Jaffa chain of command seems to impede them from forming any kind of unified force without a Goa'uld over them.
@@ThirdLawPair They don't even have any kind of electronic comms systems. Jaffa coordinate over distance using WARHORNS. They are cheifly just deployed as infantry, using mostly bronze-age technology and tactics and if it wasn't for their space forces that are under the directly control of the Goa'ould, against a modern military they would get minced, because lets see that Jaffa infantry vs an armoured brigade
2:35 Anybody notice Amanda Tapping instinctively (and smartly) flinching when Anderson damn near points the P-90 at her? No military Colonel IRL would handle a firearm so carelessly. Still an awesome scene though…
+Rooster Montgomery they dont have as long a range though. nor are they anywhere near as accurate or good at removing physical obstacles. they weren't strong enough to blow open a door in a few shots like the staff is capable.
To this date, years after seeing this episode, this is a constant reminder of Boring but efficient VS difficult but awesome, or weapons of war VS weapons of fear. Yes the P90 is hyped up in this demonstration (It should not be nearly as accurate to cut a rope in half with one shot and not powerful enough to cut a tree in half), But I will say that this was impressive.
2:23 THAT SMILE. 😭😭 Also, when I first watched this, when O’Neill called out to the guy “in the skirt”, I thought he was gonna ask him to stand in front of the target or something like an apple-on-the-head challenge kwgrhsgfd. (Edited to adjust the time stamp.)
Well, I’d personally prefer an AR-15/M16A3 over both, but hell, if there was some way to take a staff weapon, cut it down to a carbine and add a pistol grip and trigger akin to normal Earth firearms, I’ll take it.
Yeah I've been wondering about that Shorty, does a staff weapon even need to be that long? Having a cut-down staff weapon as an accessory mounted to the bottom side of something like the HK416 would be bad ass. Downside is doing that would make any weapon weigh a lot but I guess it'll mitigate the recoil. If the staff weapon is too large for that treatment the Zat is still plenty useful in such a role since either seem to last far longer than any projectile weapon in terms of ammo.
This is how you do a strong, female character. Sam isn't throwing Jaffa around with one hand, she's hot, she's feminine, and she's a total bad-ass on the battlefield.
There was that episode in Season 1 where they encounter tribes people who are pretty much Mongols but not Mongols and its all about sexism because women in their society have to stay fully dressed and hidden and stuff and this rival chieftain wants to sell of his daughter in marriage for a political alliance. And in the end, they have to figth the guy in a trial by combat to determine the fate of the daughter and Sam volunteers to show the evil patriach that women can be strong. It turns out to be a sword fight where she uses a combat knife.
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"your weapons are primitive in comparison"
*misses with a shooting spear*
tbf that thing shoots plasma.
Covenant be like: Hello there
@@ironboy3245
Yes, but really it’s only advantage is it doesn’t need ammunition, assuming the battery is long lasting. It’s accuracy and hitting power against flesh and light armor is actually less effective.
We think of bullets as low tech, but kinetic projectiles are remarkably efficient
@@ravenmoon5111 im pretty sure it works well against flesh and light armor. plasma burns at 11,000 degrees c minimum. That's enough to melt steel armor plates, since steel melts at 1425 degrees c. and temperatures that high will cause instant third degree burns on just about anything. You will not survive without a field hospital.
do not forget, weapons are not only made to kill. More often, shooting to wound is more efficient, since your enemy will have to direct logistics to keep the wounded treated and the troops supplied. how often can they replace armor plating if it gets melted every engagement? Also, the conductivity of steel would burn whoever was wearing the plate pretty badly as well, second degree burns at best
@@ironboy3245
All we have to go on is the lore of the show. In this scene it’s proven that the P90’s accuracy and rate of fire are superior.
While I don’t argue about what a good plasma weapon SHOULD do, as you can see here, the staff weapon lacks that hitting power and due to its very poor design, would be both bulky and inaccurate.
Want to see a proper plasma rifle, check the clips from the Terminator. Now, that was a weapon meant to kill
@@ravenmoon5111 yeah ok that's fair. halo's plasma rifle also does pretty well against rank and file marines
Can't wait the episode where Goa'ulds find out the price of the 5.7 ammo.
For a noob like me, what's the price for it?
@@Jerdan_ the price right now is $2-$3 per round right now. $1.90 if you’re lucky
Holy crap. Thats an expensive kill. No wonder china sends the bill for the bullets to the victims family
@@stejkoman what? No, the P90 wad never a 9mm. What are you talking about? The hole reason why the P90 was designed and build in the first place was because the old 9mm SMGs could not penentrate Kevlar body armour and NATO wanted a replacement.
@@jameslee3944 I misheard something about there being more manufacturers of 5.7, wouldn’t that bring prices down (for lower quality boolets)
One of the most memorable moments of SG-1.
I didn't think you would be here! So hello and I forgot about your channel.
So that's how it ended up in my recommendations
did you also watch a video about p90?
Amazing innit
American bullchit. The movie and their weapon)) fcking cowboys
"THIS is a weapon of war!"
With that muzzle control, you make it like a weapon of chaos, sir.
And they gave him command of SG command
@@theirishviking9278 They promoted him to general after seeing his trigger discipline, can't risk friendly fire
What do you mean "muzzle control?" Is it the way he lifts the weapon and points it into Carter's face? I'm sure he had his safety on and his finger off the trigger.
Tbf, Carter’s no better, considering she keeps aiming a loaded weapon downrange while the guy was moving the target.
@@bsgfan1 Your right, that is a big no-no. But to be fair she was portraying a strong- confident woman that sci-fi liked to have to attract female viewership, she probably had confidence she wouldn't hit them. Kind of like William Tell and the apple
2:35 Major Carter has a good sense of weapon safety handling. Even though I'm sure what they used were props, the reaction of her's when McGuyver pointed the P90 at her was a genuine reflex.
They live fired all those guns in the show with blanks.
Ha ha I noticed that same thing
At that range shock wave even from a blank might have hurt, or even caused harm. Think it was a genuine reaction like you said.
Oh shit I just noticed that. I don't think she was acting.lol
Yup, I noticed her reaction too.
“And its capable of doing so at 5 times the range i just demonstrated”
Every FPS game: “ N O “
escape from tarkov : * D A *
every shotgun in video games gets shafted by this the most.
@Kakashi Hatake I can agree with this, specifically for the P90. It’s built for close quarters, but it’s not too hard to believe that SG teams’ P-90s are otherwise adjusted for longer range fights.
Ehhh I wouldn't say every FPS game. Hell Let Loose gets their shit right.
@@BALIST0N don’t get me wrong I love tarky I have everything level 3 except my Bitcoin farm that’s still lvl 1 but filled with all ten graphics cards but the ranging needs to be fixed ASAP bullets either drop to fast or shoot to high and since there isn’t proper ranging it fucks any kind of long range shooting obviously if your running guns with there proper bullets it doesn’t effect it to much but no tarkov isn’t up there yet
Raknor did a pretty decent job, hitting a target at that range using a weapon with no iron sights, or really any sighting mechanism of any kind.
He did, this thing needs an 12x scope, tactical laser, bayonett and a bipod
Instinctive shooting, it's an art. You can still use "point of aim" techniques with an unsighted weapon too; they just take more practice than setting a sight picture on a zeroed sight.
Teal'c was pretty good at shooting targets behind him without aiming/looking also, must've used the Jaffa version of the Force. :)
First Last it’s a Tv show
@@afewspokesloose2699 Also the weapon is along, straight bar. The way he holds it makes it almost like an extension of your body unlike a bow. So it's not just instictive shooting.
"those of you who have gone against us and survived, and you know who you are"... lol. Oh man I missed this series.
Cocky, smarmy, smug. Colonel "Jack" O'Niell is a prime example of raw manly anti-intellectualism.
But then again ... Richard Dean Anderson has been judged as a "second-rate" actor, is worth over $30 million and might even become President one day, lol, I guess I'm doing it wrong, haha.
so damned glad I requested it for christmas like 5 years ago. Got the complete series.
You should have asked for the P-90
+P the funny thing is, Jack O'Neill was actually highly intelligent. He was never anti-intellectual and he always recognized how valuable the advanced knowledge the Carter and Jackson brought to the table.
VatiWah my god I miss this series. I wish they would bring it back or do something else with it.
Are we all just going to ignore those two guys down range standing literally 5 feet away from the targets?
the guy that got the target swingin needed a battle buddy!
we ignored the dude full on pointing the gun towards the Major's head near the end...so ya.
are we going to ignore the fact that the p90 isnt capable of splitting logs in half and the the term weopon of war is made up......its just a gun
@@Ghost_R6_ All terms are made up.
@@Ghost_R6_ it was loaded with high explosive armor piercing tungsten FMJ and coated with lava. *nods*
Look how Carter reacts at 2:35 when he points the P90 towards her
+paecmaker I did not even notice that the first time I watched this. I would have smacked him so hard in the face.
+ScreamingSkullSaloon Well he didn't point it directly at her, it looks like that because of the camera angle.
+paecmaker lol gotta love the way she jiggled a bit.
Good reflex to have.
hahaha never noticed
"Your weapons are... primitive by comparison."
Carter: "So I took it kinda personal"
primitive doesnt mean less effective ;))
underrated comment is underrated
Tell that to the replicators
@@BCBaron Replicators rule. Nobody can beat them ...
She missed so many shots that the gun was shooting in every direction than forward
Leadership points for not feeling humiliated and instead, happily acceptd and turning it into a celebration.
I still want a p90 well ps90 considering civvie. Just on principle
Lol except that leader turned out to be a goul'd and he didn't care because he thought he'd organised for them all to be wiped out from orbit.
You can get a true P90 (semi-auto and short barrel) if you just pay the extra 200 dollar fee to get your SBR tax stamp. Not a big deal.
@@Turboy65 yeah but longer barrel gives better ballistics so why go through the hassle if you're not going for the full auto CQB?
OldSlowGamer Only the PS90. The p90 was made after the Hughes amendment so it can’t be owned by civilians. Just dealers and law enforcement.
I used to have a p90. Amazing and excellent gun. Don't get one. I sold mine because ammo 5
7x28 is impossible to find and it's extremely expensive. Also extra mags are like 60 bucks. Also also the ps90 has a stupid barrel.
I love the humor that Rich Dean Anderson added to his Jack O'Neill character. The "Hey, you, in the skirt, get that target swinging a little" is one of my favorite humorous lines from the series.
"Just make sure you get one thing right! Spell my name with two "L"s. There is another Colonel O'Neill ... only one "L" ... He has no sense of humour!"
Fun fact - they badly wanted RDA for this show bc he was just coming off MacGyver. He asked what he could do with the character. They said (it turned out wisely) he could do whatever he wanted. And Jack O'Neill 2.0 was born.
Oh, RDA said he didn't want to be disrespectful to the Air Force, so he asks a general one day if his portrayal was too smart ass and cynical for an Air Force officer.
The General said RDA was pretty much nailing it. He'd worked with plenty of officers way more smartass and cyincal than Jack O'Neill.
always kinda hoped for that dude to just start belly dancing, swinging his log around 😲😅
I remember first hearing that line and the celt in me just started going "IT'S CALLED A KILT YA INBRED SACK OF SHITE!!!".
And at the end "... and you know how you are..."
Him: The female?
Her: Do you realize how many of you I've killed with this thing?
Yeah she could mow doen every single one of them there and then and still have ammo in the clip haha.
Her: "Not even in total or with just P90's, just THIS one that I signed out of the armory for this trip."
i wish she had said that. that would've been badass.
@Stripey Arse One of the most consistently misused firearm terms in media.
@@leifhietala8074 Technically but the terms are generally interchangeable If you asked another infantryman for an extra clip rather than an extra magazine he would still know what your talking about and yhats whats important. Unlike for instance when any scoped rifle and sometimes even pistol chambered carbine is called a sniper.
I always liked Teal'C’s support and admiration for Sam in this scene. He and Jack know her value in battle and know she doesn’t need their support, but they’re proud to give it to her and to be brothers in arms. The writing and acting of this entire scene... I don't need it but it reminds me why SG1 is my favorite TV serie since more than 20 years.... ❤️🔥
“This is a weapon of war.”
*Points it at the woman
Well you can start a war with the reason for woman
Indeed, but his finger is of away of the trigger.
@@cristianflorescu2827 still bad trigger discipline
She flinches hard too
@@wellshit9489 I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that.
The fact that Carter flinches when O'Neil waves around the P90 in her direction is a nice touch to realism.
I don’t think that was acting.
@@MrWolfstar8 it wasn't. They received actual weapons training for the show, so her flinch at him flagging her with the gun was real
That and it was probably a live weapon (ie, an actual weapon and not a prop).
@@therudecanadian8068 You'd be correct. In an interview years later, the armorer stated that for realism unloaded but real firearms were used as often as possible. Rubber replicas were only used in running/ action scenes that didn't involve shooting.
The entire crew, including extras, were extensively trained using real live ammo. All gun fights where there is reloading and clearing of weapons is the cast reacting to the firearms not scripted. There are several times in the show where both main characters and extras actually clear jams and perform reloads on the fly. To add to this and, much to the dismay of the actors, full power blanks were also used as often as possible. This gives the firearms a feeling of realism that can't be matched by CGI it was also apparently well loved by the sound techs as they got cool and unique sounds that couldn't else wise be achieved.
@@bishop4077Dismay isnt the word I'd use. Ben Browder and Michael Shanks both spoke positively about it. The only negative thing cast members have said about using the real guns is whenever they had to use sparking pellets in a running firefight. The actors would have actual pellets shot at the ground around them, and sometimes it would kick debris around cause small cuts on their ankles. They apparently loved the blank rounds thoughs.
I do like the analysis by Col. O'Neill about the purpose of a weapon as compared with another. The sheer destructive power & technical advancement of the staff weapon vs. the simpler but more lethal function of the P90. Sort of a lesson on what any particular weapon is best suited for.
Really makes sense too, when you consider that the goa'uld have been using staff weapons since humans were fighting back with slings & bows. They never had any need to advance because their technology was so far beyond that of the humans they were enslaving that they got complacent in their roles as "gods" & never considered having to square up against an actual military threat.
@@SeraphimCramer kind of like chariot warfare in the Bronze Age. The tech was out dated but because all the major powers had stopped making serious war on each other they didn’t update weapon systems.
Then the sea peoples started invading with iron tipped weapons and Calvary which just destroyed chariot based warfare. The Egyptians were the only power to really adjust tactics and just barely beat the sea peoples using overwhelming numbers of spearmen and no chariots.
The staff weapon does have _one_ advantage besides intimidation factor... no need to reload. But if you're using the P90 effectively, you shouldn't _need_ to...
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this also approximately the point Teal'c himself switched to the P90 dual-wield?
@@MrWolfstar8 Didnt the Egyptian kingdom survive just barely against the sea people only to collapse shortly after? pretty sure the only surviving kingdom was the Assyrian realm of which intelligently receded into their homeland to weather the storm.
"HEY YOU! IN THE SKIRT!"
Scottish people whenever someone refers to their kilts as skirts:
And he understands english
You're finally awake
Trigger discipline: followed.
Muzzle disclipline: NOT FOLLOWED.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
P 1990's.
He literally points it at her head at the end smh
And why on whatever planet this is were those guys hanging out downrange?
You can see her jump when it happens too
Holy s*** she does jump lol
A pretty good representation of Goa'uld weaponry: form over function, symbolic meaning over functionality.
Also I genuinely enjoy how even after being at war with the Goa'uld for years, O'Neill still pronounces their name wrong.
Its due to his lack of respect for them
Staff weapons deal greater damage and possess greater endurance than any comparable Earth longarm. Plus, energy weapon blasts aren't affected by gravity or wind. That weapon does have its uses.
Jack mispronounces on purpose.
I think the actor who played Hammond genuinely had a hard time saying Goa'uld
@@yoggz Ghouuld.
I absolutely LOVE the level smugness in Carter and O'Neill after the demonstration, and rightly so. "Those of you who've gone up against us and survived... you know who you are" 😏😅😆
Everyone rushing B: “Write that down, write than down!”
wut?
Have ever heard of csgo by any chance
p90 noob
Rush B no stop
"Single shot? Never heard of that" - average P90 user
This is a weapon of terror
This is a weapon of war
I love how detailed that outline of the weapons and their uses actually is. Like damn.
Unpopular opion: mass shootings are good because otherwise these people would be using indiscriminate weapons of terror instead of pin-point precise weapons of war.
My opinion: If you're going to take my guns because of someone else committing a crime that's guilt by association - and the only association being ownership of an object.
@@DSiren Your unpopular opinion is wrong. Outside the fact that "weapon of war" is a meaningless qualifier most mass shootings happen with handguns.
But I agree with the sentiment, if mass shooters really wanted to just kill people, they could just homebuild a bomb or rent a semi truck...
@@Dja05 I totally understand what you mean. IMHO the only gun control that would ever make ANY sense would be pistol control and the privilege of concealed carry. Ain't nobody going to ambush you with a rifle, ain't nobody going to pull a rifle out of their ass and get the drop on a cop. Ain't no way you'll hide a rifle from your ex before executing her, but hell yeah you can organize a militia with riflemen. The fact they're going after rifles despite the statistics and the basic fact that you can't surprise someone with a rifle, proves this is about all guns. When you see a rifle you know it's there, it's big and therefore will catch your eye better when it's moved. Then again, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED so I don't even support pistol control. Maybe a national pistol registry to make traffic stops safer, but not control.
@WystenDraco I really did phrase it wrong, but I agree with you entirely. However, I don't trust the government to determine who is or isn't mentally healthy, in fact I don't trust anyone with that kind of power. I am also of the opinion that we shouldn't be releasing those who we couldn't trust with a gun (in regards to ex-felons). I believe, once you serve your time, rightfully or wrongfully accused, you should be able to lawfully own a gun.
Combine the two weapons. Take a staff weapon, cut it down to just the plasma projector, add rifle grips and iron sights. Much higher accuracy, and much more ammunition than the P90. Plus it prevents the Jaffa from being dependent on Earth for ammunition. Add a sling on top so it is easier to carry hands-free.
Plus you can put an under-barrel Zat on it, or reinforce the stock, or add a bayonet, or other fun stuff
2:36 "This.. is a weapon of war, it's made to kill your enemy."
*points it straight at Carter's head* xD
“Those of you who have gone up against us and survived…and you know who you are.”
Love that line, lowkey burning them.
Just watch the crowd, see who flinches when the P90 fires.
@@JnEricsonx
But then the question becomes: Are the ones flinching veterans who are afraid of the power of the P90, or are the ones not flinching the veterans because they’re used to the sound?
For me, either is a possibility.
Note to anyone who wants to have prop guns in a movie/TV show: don't have P90's with transparent magazines. after you shoot 20+ rounds into something we can still see that there hasn't been a single bullet taken out of the damn thing.
+joe kickass Alien technology allowing for instant replenishment of ammo.
dave19941000 Yeah they must have mini stargates in there magazines or something.
joe kickass Why use mini stargates when you can use mini "jump anywhere drives"?
+dave19941000 hahaha WORMHOLE DUES EX MACHINA DRIVE !
Naw, you can just about see the brass coming out of the bottom of the weapon as she's firing. Most productions use real guns firing "hot" blanks to produce a more distinctive muzzle flash. Most likely the inconsistent number of rounds loaded is because of multiple takes.
I love that little smile after she demonstrates single shot.
This is the perfect example of a strong female lead character. No Mary Sue, no special ability just a strong and confident female and mutual respect between the males and the females. And because every body knows it, nobody hast to point it out!
Maj. Charter has always been one of my favorite characters in TV history.
Couldn't agree more. That idiot Kathleen Kennedy should have done more research before ruining Star Wars like she did with Rey.
Here here!
Damn straight!
* binges on Mauler videos *
And yet she's still not a man...
Overall humans had the best gear and training for ground combat to any of the other alien races. Idk why they always say we are primitive. True the rest of our tech might be but we`ve been developing weapons as long as mankind roamed the earth.
Taking a side that this is Sci-fi, any race that can travel between planets can call us primitives and the would be 110% right. Out of hollywood or books, we would be wiped out by any xenos race that can traver between planets.
Huma270490 Fair said , but still it depends on how the war is fought. They may have the engines and navigation to operate in space but that doesnt mean they can simply wipe out the rest of civilizations.
Mihail Radulov
Because high tech ships means that they use rocks and sticks on a fight..... Normally every aspect of the technology has the same level, or do you know any country on Africa with a space program but no electricity?
to put it simply, if your civilization is adventurous and creative, your space traveling capabilities might be pretty advanced, where as your weapons might be poop by comparison, where a civilization that has known only war for thousands of years but has achieved conventional space travel is likely to have very powerful weapons tech, but their space tech may be lack luster. consider that these aliens are not like us humans and do not behave like us, they wouldn't evolve the same as us and neither would their technology.
Zakti If any xenos race come to earth with hostile intencions we would be so dead that fight against them would be 110% useless. In comparison it could be like a medieval kingdom fighting a modern army, a total annihilation( I think that is who the word is written on english)
“Fire away son” ... that guy is like 150 yo!
😂 and yet he still looks young enough to be his son lol
It's not about age, it's about mileage
@@theishiopian68 they were born as slave soldiers. The guy was the best of the elite slave soldiers with centuries of practice
@@Daguigoz with a very innefective speargun that a 20-30 years old woman could bring a higher letality with a less fancy gun.
@@phantasosxgames8488 lol even if my elders were less rich and less educated than I, I wouldn’t call them « son »
As far as explaining Stormtrooper aim, I think Stargate did a fair job.
Stormtroopers are very good shots. The 'stormtrooper aim' trope, is a myth. How bout when they boarded Leia's ship? Which side of that would you want to be on?
@@springbloom5940 You mean when the Stormtroopers were firing down a tight hallway filled with enemy targets? Uh...yeah. Of course they managed to actually hit something.
I love how people bring up that scene like it's some kind of impressive feat of accuracy. There's really nothing impressive about it. They should've been completely slaughtered pushing through that tiny fatal funnel. The only thing that saved them was the defending Rebels being even more ridiculously inaccurate than the stormtroopers. It was laughable how they couldn't hold that doorway with that many guns focused on it.
Nah. Stormtroopers are consistently shown to be cannon fodder that only achieve victory with overwhelming with numbers.
Which side would I want to be on? Definitely not the stormtrooper's side. They suck.
@@Gunnar001
Right, wonder how many firefights you've been in. Wait, no I don't.
@@springbloom5940 Go look up fatal funnel and how dangerous moving through it is, kiddo. Kinda the reason why it's called that.
10 armed and ready troops focused on that one small entry point and they barely hit anything. They're total garbage.
And the attacking horde of stormtroopers were just blindly charging through and wildly firing down a narrow hallway crammed with targets at near point blank range.
Laughably incompetent defending force and target rich environment in a confined space. There's nothing impressive here and definitely nothing that supports good stormtrooper aim.
@@Gunnar001
Your assertion appears to be that an assault can never succeed against against a basically competent defending force? Makes one wonder what we all have been training for, huh?
Um, I know what a 'fatal funnel' is, dumbshit. I also know what massing a breach is 😒
Jaffa: And what defence system do you use?
O'Neil: Mostly plot armor.
O'Neill, with 2 L's.
The O'Neil with 1 L doesn't have a sense of humor.
@@DragonKnightJinwhat about o’neilll (because he lives, laughs, and loves)?
O'Neil cares more about his own ears than about the two guys standing directly next to the target.
he knows how good Carter's aim is. and they're only Jaffa
I mean, the guys standing near the target wouldn't need that much hearing protection compared to O'Neil
@@tyrannicpuppy " and they're only Jaffa"
Fuck you.
@@tyrannicpuppy "only Jaffa." I'm going to give benefit of the doubt and assume this meant that Jaffa can super-heal, rather than any racist undertone.
@@blusafe1 “racist” that would be xenophobic not racist bud
I loved this show so much. What a blessing that time was
The P90 is great and all, but can I just say how consistently awesome the staff weapon's special effects were during SG1. From the sound effect to the impact, and the glowing embers afterwards, it was just *neat*.
"This is a weapon of terror! It's made to intimidate the enemy!
This is a weapon of war! It's made to rush B cyka blyat!"
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O'Neill on some distant world in the 2000s.
Hahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah
@@joaquincobas2223 hey you man in skirt get more like for the comment
Omg imma on the floor lauging xD xD xD Hahahaha :D
lmfao
LMFAO! Awesome. just awesome.
The thing about staff weapons is how inconsistent the writers seemed to make them. It could blow giant chunks in walls and thick metal doors, but other times even on an un-armoured target the blast would be absorbed by the flesh and just leave a scorch mark or superficial wound when it should be blowing entire limbs off. Presumably this was because if it was actually consistent and did that then the show would have to increase its rating and things would be a lot darker having people's limbs being blown off every episode.
In this clip the staff weapon made no notable hole in the wood even though the same staff weapons are used to blow holes in the bunker doors of the SGC in other episodes, they wanted to make the difference between the weapons seem stark just to drive the point home in this scene
And still the P-90 would be the superior choice.
Dudes in giant metal snake masks running across a desert planet, sky filled with flying pyramids, shooting plasma bolts out of some crazy staff looks pretty sick though. You have to consider the aesthetic factor. It has to look cool when you're kicking ass.
But for all that the energy discharge didn't seem that powerful. Overengineered and underdelivered.
are you saying the p90 is not a cool weapon?
"...and you know who you are..."
Nice.
Technically, the Goa'uld's weapons of war are starships that can glass planets from orbit, genetically engineered viruses that can wipe out a planet in weeks, and microscopic naquadah enhanced explosives designed to detonate the Stargate and render a planet uninhabitable.
SG-1 got incredibly lucky against the Goa'uld and if the Asgard hadn't bluffed earth into the peace treaty with the Goa'uld, the system lords would have sent a fleet of ships to blast earth into smoldering ruins.
That was true until they found the defense system in the Antarctic that ended up giving the Earth a fighting chance of self defense (sort of). And before you say that's ancient tech, not modern humans: the goauld are using ancient tech as well.
phew... true fan!
humans: we have nukes that can flatten a city
No. Firstly, as advanced as their tech was, most of Goa'uld's were little more than glorified warlords at this point. There was huge thing about human child of two of them having all the knowledge. It indicates that most of them actually don't have access to advanced knowledge, let alone understand just what exactly their devices do. Secondly, SG teams were made from the best Humanity had to offer at this point, men and women who spent all their lives on War, doing it out of sense of Duty, not because someone held them the at gun-point; it always produces better result for your people to give it all willingly. Thirdly, Stargate system was bottleneck for all would-be-invaders, and System Lords didn't knew cosmic coordinates 0f Earth until later in show, and by then, we had Asgard to help, and later Ancient Defence Post online. Fourthly, they were different from almost all other societes of Milky Way at this point. No one invaded us, no one forbid writing, learning. We were our own worst enemy. Goa'uld's could give us real point of unity in real life xD.
Additionally, O'Neill is just about one of most dangerous humans in entire Galaxy at this point. He spent his whole life doing Black Ops operations, things that give normal people nightmares, just to keep us safe(at least, that is theory). When he talks about one weapon made to terrorize your enemy, and the other made to KILL your enemy, he damn well knows what is he talking about :P
@@Definitelylnterested the only true threat Goa'uld wise was Ba'al and Anubis, even then Ba'al was too egotistical to be taken seriously. now the Replicators.....they were a considerate threat. then the Ori arrived.
I love Sam's smile after the single shot.
Can we talk about the fact that a scifi TV show such as Stargate (this specific season premiered in 2001) actually showed actors with trigger discipline? Seeing that was extremely rare at the time.
And then he pointed his muzzle at her head.
*Trigger discipline
Trigger discipline yes but no muzzle discipline and they fired a weapon with two people down range.
We Humans are really good at killing stuff... like REALLY REALLY GOOD. Wanna see?
Thats how we survived, and now domimate, as a spicies. Kindsness and compassion dont deter preditors or put food on the table, being the most ruthless survivor does. Times havent really changed eother but the focus has shifted business and social standing.
History is just humanity finding better ways to kill eachother.
@@anelbegic2780 Take away our creature comforts and see the end result
It’s about the only thing we’re good at, can’t build a civilization or government worth a fuck
Before creation there was destruction, unfortunately we are better at destroying than creating, lol.
miss this show
He’s pointing his gun at carter. Not cool O’Neal!
It's O'Neall...with lll two l's
@@whynot5568 lol I just watched the eps with the reporter when he said that
@@Damnsaburna it's been a while since I've seen this show but I'll never forget O'Neill telling the douche bags of the episode "it's O'Neill...with two L's" as he holds up three fingers LMAO it was perfect and unexpected.
idk if carter's reaction to that was directed, acting prowess, or instinct, but it was fantastic in any case.
@@whynot5568 its also a joke on O'neil from the stargate movie whose name only has 1 L. That whole scene is 2 jokes at once and meta. This is why i fucking love stargate.
I wonder how much money FN paid for this advert?
$2350
@@tappajaav is that a CS reference bro
Yes
If I remember correctly it wasn't because FN paid them, but because there was a shortage of firearms available for the showrunners to use. FN's P90 happened to be available in large enough numbers, and honestly they look pretty cool... even if they aren't the most practical of weapons
@@williamnixon3994 I thought the main reason was because the P90 has downward ejecting. It was rarely seen in the first episodes, but I think to remember they had problems with hot cases flying sidewards and hitting the actors repeatedly, so they decided to use the P90 as SG-1's signature weapon.
One of the things I loved about this show was the action scenes. They were a soundtrack onto their own. Staff blast and guns popping off was like music
“YEAH!”
“They really like doing that...”
I just realised the free Jaffa are space marines
"FCK NZS" What do you have against New Zealanders?
So ... By this point in the series the SGC has access to like, thousands and thousand of staff weapons, each containing an extremely efficient and long last power source, I always wondered why they didn't chop them up and use them to make man portable railguns.
they may have tried but it's probably not easy playing around with those things without causing a problem. plus without knowing the batteries actually capability's or how many it would take. much less the amount of voltage per current ratio they may simply not be compatible with earth tech just yet.
Blame Dr. Lee. He was in charge of the SGC's weapons development and he just made a 'better' staff weapon inthe form of the Xsomethingsomething. It's used in season 10 and the movie. Though admittedly railguns are just not good barring room temperature super conductors and while the gate IS that they never learned how to replicate the process.
@@unintentionallydramatic They absolutely did, the Prometheus integrates superconductive materials into its construction. Hell in Season 7 they develop a superconductive armored plate for standard plate carriers.
@@eXpriest also Naquadah itself is a room temperature superconductor that's how the gates work
@@aredjayc2858 Yeh, but as far as I know they're not able to duplicate or replicate the material in useful quantities until prometheus.
The way he says "...And you know who you are.." get's me every time.
"Demonstrate the weapon on single shot..." *Carter shoots both Jaffa at the range*
same bullet and all lol
The major weakness of jaffa's weapon is a bad design and low ergonomy
There are some much shorter, easier to use staff weapons shown in the last few seasons of SG1. They look like carbines in size relative to the full size things. They're used quite heavily in close combat.
They are weapons to quell rebellions, not for guerrilla warfare. It's like comparing a shotgun to an assault rifle, each is for a different purpose.
Plus, firing it would give your position away, and pinpoint you for a hail of return P90 fire...
Plus, the staff weapon has nearly unlimited ammunition. I wonder why they didnt compared it with a assault rifle. The staff weapon was desinged as a 60 meters effective weapon that also used as melee weapon and as torch. The plasma bursts should do more damage to the log in compare.
There also exists a modifed short staff weapon called the sodan staff weapon. Well i must admit the design is outdated. The kull warriors got a similar weapon that fitted a forearm and fired much faster.
Gobi Subramaniam They don't actually have unlimited ammo. They use liquid Naquadah that is very much finite, it's just very long lasting.
I love the little "and you know who you are."
Not the first time I've noticed how Amanda Tapping took the show's weapons training seriously. That flinch seems like a genuine reaction and not a scripted one.
I remember when the MP5 was SG1's standard gear. Good times.
Yea and they all wore those clunky helmets.
MUH NINETIES
Lol funny thing is Stargate been out since early 2000 I remember watching it as a kid
@@sleeper1624 Since 1997 even. 1994 if you count the Kurt Russell movie.
I’m still on those seasons lol
This episode is like an ad for the P90, sponsored by the US military
Except it was filmed *in canada*.
This was one of my favourite moments in the entire series.
"This is a weapon of terror. It's made to... intimidate the enemy." Discarding the unwieldly staff with all the ceremony due an empty beer can, he deftly readies the P90 slung to his chest as he continues. "This is a weapon of war. It is made to *KILL* the enemy."
Plasma weapons would have crap range anyway- plasma is hard enough to contain with dense magnetic fields generated by heavy electromagnets, and would disperse quickly even in a vacuum. Trying to fling a glob of the stuff through a soup of atmospheric gas would be like trying to throw a loosely-packed snowball underwater. You'd be lucky to scorch anything more dense than lint over any appreciably distance.
Even if we assume some form of magnetic containment McGuffin that magically maintains the integrity of the plasma ball/bolt as it tunnels through the air (which must be the case for such weapons as seen), the projectiles are slow (as in, you can dodge that sucker if you see it coming), and the weapon's operator is exposed by both the stance required to use the weapon, and the tracer-like nature of its projectile.
We know that the clumsy weapons provided to the Jaffa are nerfed by the Goa'uld. You don't give your best weapons to your slaves after all. A lower-yield, rapid-fire version in a more practical format might have made the average Jaffa mook considerably more dangerous. As it is, a Jaffa's first glimpse of an automatic firearm of the conventional kind - the harsh rattle of its report from disciplined and agile warriors at range, the catastrophic damage its invisibly fast projectiles inflict upon their targets, bloody holes being punched through armoured bodies with no flame or explosion but just a series of sickening thuds rending flesh and shattering bone - would be a terrifying and illuminating experience.
Come to think of it, an RPG would be faster and considerably more destructive than a staff weapon, which merely scorches tree trunks and would likely be shrugged off by half-decent armour- one shot can do the job of twenty plasma staffs. I digress.
You certainly wouldn't continue to underestimate the guys who can cut you in half at 300 yards while you're waggling your heavy boomstick in their general direction , so one can only assume that the dismissive one hadn't yet had that pleasure. Fortunately for him, his lesson was learned from the end of the weapon that doesn't macerate things.
"...with gratitude ... and humility."
Yeah. You know it. Bitch.
WhiteHawkUK the Emperor protects but it also helps to have a loaded bolter or two
Except that the P90 was *not* made for war. It was made for personal defense.
@@RonJohn63 Well....defense in a war setting. It's primary intent was for installation and airfield defense. Outstanding at close range, but purposefully designed to lose energy over distance very quickly.
@@RonJohn63 That's not what PDW stands for in a military context. And it absolutely was designed for military use. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_defense_weapon
P90 is ok and all but I always found it strange that it was stargates weapon of choice. An M4 or a HK416 would be a much more apt choice when you don't know what kind of situation you could be facing. These guns are far more effective in a wide variety of circumstances than the P90 which really is only better in terms of portability, and loses effectiveness quickly at long range.
I love how there are just dudes standing around at the target end of the firing range
The bullet catchers XD
one had a skirt tho!
To be fair, laser staves wouldn’t have had a large spread, or kick up much if any shrapnel, so as long as you weren’t in direct line of sight it wouldn’t be as dangerous as a human firing range
In skirts.
I'm a little older. I remember useing Smiggys in the early 70s. A simple 9mm sub machine gun.
As BG on the show we used a variety of weapons prop disguised as future tech or alien.
My favorite is a toss up between a prop made over WW 2 Nazi submarine flare gun and the Fully automatic hand gun. The hand gun fired almost as fast as the regular submachine guns.
Carter!!! just love her
I'd like too
sg I
not Humans, all shape shifter
Then Russian sniper gives demonstration 😂
I assume she'll be wearing an enormous strap-on for this procedure?
@Dark Light wow calm down brother
I was half-expecting him to say "And this... is my BOOMSTICK!"
Best thing was we actually saw them using p90s in layer episodes, the consistency was immaculate
This was the show of my childhood and early teen years. Such beautiful memories. Whenever i see it, even now, it gives me a feeling of wonder and calmness.
"Your weapons are primitive.."
Counterterrorists and Terrorists: >:-/
Stealth and low-grade weapons always trump advanced technology, it's why the Asgard couldn't stop the Replicators but the Tau'ri could
1:22 I remember Jack had a similar reaction when meeting Carter in the pilot episode. :)
Jack: The leader and the humour
Daniel: The brains
Teal’c: The brawn
Sam: The massive bollocks
I will never get bored of how Carter is ready to snaps anyone who dares call here a female... Including Jack on her first scene.
No clue why my favorite 90's show is in my recommendations, but brings back great memories
He's got a point...That staff thing has no sights, and doesn't seem very pointable to me.
It's also poorly balanced, making aiming more difficult
however T has shown that it can be rapid fire while every other Jaffa fires off a single shot at a time.
If you view it as arifle then no, it isn't. However if you view it as an equivalent to 37mm recoilless rifle...
It's also huge and long, making it useless for close-quarters/indoor firefights. They may use it in a more traditional, melee manner, but it's just so long and cumbersome to lug around.
@@ryantabor9582 they have Zats, you know? RPG-7 is also bad in CQC and melee:\
"Intimidate OR kill? Why not both?"
Captain Picard: "No, what about the Prime Directive? sorry but your enemies are not our enemies"
Col. O'Neill: "There is nothing that a well placed C4 can't solve, here take 20"
2 different timelines dude, not an accurate comparison. Nonetheless funny for some Stargate & Star Trek crossover lol!
I've always wondered how long a staff weapon lasts in terms of number of shots? Its clear a "slug thrower" is the superior weapon, with a weakness in ammunition. When your running a galactic empire mainly against technologically inferior species, your ammo problem is a lot more important your killing problem.
In "The Fifth Race" we see that it's powered with liquid Naquadah. That same power cell that O'Neill got out of a staff weapon is used in his one-time power booster to dial another galaxy. In other words, the power source of the staff weapons that usually just allow users to fire plasma blasts was also capable of creating a wormhole to another galaxy. It's definitely possible that a power cell for a staff weapon could eventually run dry, but most likely it would last years and years and years, even with regular combat use.
When you come to think of it guns are just energy weapons but with it being chemically stored and explosively released and used kinetically
@@周生生-f1f That's the direction weapons are goin to in real life
Ammo problems are easily solved by living on a mineral rich planet.
Considering what we know about Naquada? Probably literally and unironically a century. The entire SGC was supplied by a single mine for the whole series.
I wonder if O'Neill ever brought up that pesky little fact about P90 ammo being frappin' expensive. Or about having to manufacture the ammo and physically ship it to the soldiers using the weapon. Methinks staves are issued to Jaffa for more than just ceremony and terror.
Come one, more contracts to the military industry. Subcontractors of the U.S. military industry will be really happy and some top CEO (who are, by the way, friends with many Republican congressmen) will make $$$. :)
Yan Brassard
To the detriment of the actual military logisticians who have to schedule Stargate trips, Prometheus voyages, etcetera just to get bullets to units out in the field.
Did they ever actually ship large numbers of P90s to the Jaffa? I think that was never really done anyway. Probably larger quantities of AR-15 deriviates that were being phased out due to more modern variants being introduced to the military, alongside the relatively cheap 5.56mm in large quantities. You can probably equip quite an army with that, although it indeed would require a lot of logistics.
Then again: These staff weapons are being produced somewhere. We're never really shown, but the goa'uld (and possibly the free Jaffa later on) must have had a lot of facilities to produce and maintain their armor and weapons. Even though they are longer lasting than rifles are.
So... maybe they sent some engineers who collaborated with Jaffa engineers and some defected goa'uld lead technicians / scientists to implement earth machinery into these facilities and mine for the ressources required to produce projectiles? Clearly the facilities capable of mass producing such intricate weapons as Zats would be able to shape a bullet to a specified form.
Guys, my point of view: The P90 is not an army weaponry. It's more of a scout, universal, compact ~ guerilla/commando weapon. There is a good reason why soldiers get m4. ( i don'T know the current version)
So I think the point wasn't an army loadout. But training out strike teams. Jaffars usually go in big numbers, scattered and give off a lot of unaimed attacks. However if you advance in a small team, in forestry, or plan an attack! Than the P90 shines. With a couple of grenade, claymore, c4, everything is awesome.
Also, later in the series Jaffars don't use any kind of earthling weaponry. To be honest, arming foreign armies with modern weaponry is something even the USA would fall from. It wouldn't bring rise to the economy, more like fall because it's from goverment money. That's basicly sucking out the blood of the economy.
I'm sorry not to offend 'Muricans, but we speak hear of 100k-s of Jaffas. The amount of metal needed for that is a bit much. Even more if we see jaffa loses!
I think they wanted to make commandos.
the p90 was designed for tankers, pilots and security forces.
I love that little smile she gives at the end.
Wow.. you can really see the gun training in action. Even down to O'Neils finger pointing off the trigger. Just watched the behind the scenes video of the introduction of the p90. Producers thought it was a fake gun!
For those who wonder what the teflon coating part means, the 5.7x28mm is a completly straight cartidge, it has no case tapering. To aid in extracting, each P90 is covered in a special polymer .
You are spot on and absolutely correct. Most people think the projectile itself is “Teflon” coated to aid in light armor penetration (the SS190 needs no special coating to defeat level II body armor out to 200 meters) which is a common misconception. The 5.7x28 brass is straight walled to properly fit and feed in the straight 50 round magazine. A hard lube coating is applied to the brass to assist extraction from the chamber after firing.
@@tauruslove86 Also less wear on the components it glides through.
The in-story reason that the SGC uses the P-90 is having an armor-piercing weapon that's both accurate and good in tight quarters is the _perfect_ weapon for killing Jaffa wearing wrought-naquadah plate.
5.7 is a shouldered cartridge. Not straightwall.
I'm surprised no one complained about Earth weapons being so loud.
Those staff weapons weren't exactly silent either
I miss SG-1 so much.
There isn’t even anywhere where I can watch it anymore.
Even torrents are dried up 😢
I got this on my recommendation around October or November. As a result of this, I started watching Stargate SG-1 because of this recommendation.
are you trying to earn yourself some more money aren't you fat enough already lol
@@samfazers8818 how the fuck is this comment even relevant to mine? it's either you're a troll who has nothing to do or just some kid trying to waste everyone's time
@@GeorgeMHarrison well lets see you are calling yourself JACK O'NEILL who is a character in the stargate series.... who earns money off people watching stargate and has got rather fat SORRY RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON BUT ITS THE TRUTH lol and who earns money off people watching their show....... what you were saying seemed more like advert... if you got offended at a simple statement maybe you do need to loose some weight and im 34 not some kid or troll lmfao
@@samfazers8818 got a problem with my name? just because i named myself after a character from the show doesn't mean i am him. how about do me a favor and go fuck off.
20 years have passed and here we are
Powerful words for an episode that aired shortly after 9/11. For those who have read "A road not taken" by Harry Turtledove, the idea of different styles of weapons is very plausible.
The bear-like aliens in 'A road not taken' were using flintlocks. Now that is both primitive and ineffective (in comparison).
I like that line anyway, and I love Turtledove. Is that in an anthology, and if so, which one?
Godzillafan93 It is a short story science fiction.
Kathic
Okay, and again, where would I find it?
Godzillafan93 No idea.
"And you know who you are"-O'neal
That line makes laugh every time. Rubbing that salt into that wound.
The way they aim that spear-rifle looks uncomfortable and tiring.
It's almost as if the goa'uld didn't want them to be efficient enough to mount any kind of rebellion.
@@ThirdLawPair And were designed chiefly to scare the hell out of primitive people, who were convinced it was magic being wielded by the servants of their gods
@@weldonwin Even the organizational structure of the Jaffa chain of command seems to impede them from forming any kind of unified force without a Goa'uld over them.
@@ThirdLawPair They don't even have any kind of electronic comms systems. Jaffa coordinate over distance using WARHORNS. They are cheifly just deployed as infantry, using mostly bronze-age technology and tactics and if it wasn't for their space forces that are under the directly control of the Goa'ould, against a modern military they would get minced, because lets see that Jaffa infantry vs an armoured brigade
2:35 Anybody notice Amanda Tapping instinctively (and smartly) flinching when Anderson damn near points the P-90 at her? No military Colonel IRL would handle a firearm so carelessly.
Still an awesome scene though…
“Those of you who have gone up against us and survived; and you know who you are…”
Oh the level of sas….
I think the wrist mounted version of the staff used by Anubis' Kull Warriors beats both!
+Rooster Montgomery they dont have as long a range though. nor are they anywhere near as accurate or good at removing physical obstacles. they weren't strong enough to blow open a door in a few shots like the staff is capable.
Yeah, it's more like a compact commando weapon for raids .... and that's exactly what those guys were deployed for.
The magic of science fiction. Rounds fired from a P90 transform into 50BMG fired from an M2 in just 60 yards.
To this date, years after seeing this episode, this is a constant reminder of Boring but efficient VS difficult but awesome, or weapons of war VS weapons of fear.
Yes the P90 is hyped up in this demonstration (It should not be nearly as accurate to cut a rope in half with one shot and not powerful enough to cut a tree in half), But I will say that this was impressive.
i think that was the time of 9/11 and they even wanted to show americas power in the stargate.
It's a Belgian weapon though
Well it's a rifle style bullet so maybe but a 9mm would most likely miss target
I always thought Amanda Tapping did an excellent job at playing a soldier.
I'd like to see their faces when their new gifts run out of ammo
lol
One shot and you're hooked.
The fact that they'd be reliant on Tau'ri for amo was actually a huge plot point.
Mayor of the Unas-enslaving settlement: "Impressive weapon... but it seems to run out of power rather quickly. I suppose that's what these are for."
Most of the scenes they used airsoft guns. Hence the never depleting mags sometimes
2:23 THAT SMILE. 😭😭 Also, when I first watched this, when O’Neill called out to the guy “in the skirt”, I thought he was gonna ask him to stand in front of the target or something like an apple-on-the-head challenge kwgrhsgfd.
(Edited to adjust the time stamp.)
"hey! You in the skirt" 1:38 😂😂😂
We've been killing each other for hundreds of years; we've gotten quite good at it.
i'll still take a P-90 or an MP-5 over a Staff weapon any day of the week.
Why not both? Staff weapon would be good for melee and anti-vehicle comparable to a light RPG.
Well, I’d personally prefer an AR-15/M16A3 over both, but hell, if there was some way to take a staff weapon, cut it down to a carbine and add a pistol grip and trigger akin to normal Earth firearms, I’ll take it.
I would take a staff for Sundays and special occaisions tho, like high class social gatherings and stuff.
Yeah I've been wondering about that Shorty, does a staff weapon even need to be that long?
Having a cut-down staff weapon as an accessory mounted to the bottom side of something like the HK416 would be bad ass. Downside is doing that would make any weapon weigh a lot but I guess it'll mitigate the recoil.
If the staff weapon is too large for that treatment the Zat is still plenty useful in such a role since either seem to last far longer than any projectile weapon in terms of ammo.
@mithikx well the Kull warriors smaller handarm would be fitting for that
yet another fine addition to my "algorithm strikes again" playlist
damn the algorithm...now I have to watch SG1 from scratch again...
2:36 I love how Carter flinched for nearly being flagged by him 😂😂
Still the best P90 promotion to this day, that's how I got to know P90 was because of SG1
This is how you do a strong, female character. Sam isn't throwing Jaffa around with one hand, she's hot, she's feminine, and she's a total bad-ass on the battlefield.
There was that episode in Season 1 where they encounter tribes people who are pretty much Mongols but not Mongols and its all about sexism because women in their society have to stay fully dressed and hidden and stuff and this rival chieftain wants to sell of his daughter in marriage for a political alliance. And in the end, they have to figth the guy in a trial by combat to determine the fate of the daughter and Sam volunteers to show the evil patriach that women can be strong. It turns out to be a sword fight where she uses a combat knife.