Why can't people aim straight?!?

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Why can't people aim straight?!?

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Throughout the whole movie, I had to wonder how they could've missed shots 5 meters away... I mean, cmon! Then there's the fact that they miss repeatedly at that range. Any 9 year old kid who's played FPSs before would have better aim.

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Those Remans were sure terrifying soldiers :roll:
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Given the whole thinking that most of Trek seems to follow...and their woeful military I say a group of Paintball fanatics are better shots than the best the Federation could offer.
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I would agree, but be cautious. We are fans of the franchise with the "Greedo incident"... Damn you GL!
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That 'incident' never happend :P

dammit Lucas why the fuck did you mess with something perfectly legit, given that you and your obession with color...SOLO WEARS BLACK AND WHITE!!!!
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Aaron Ash wrote:I would agree, but be cautious. We are fans of the franchise with the "Greedo incident"... Damn you GL!
Yeah, well, that's one clumsy bounty hunter in six total movies. Compare to the Stormtroopers, who managed to consistently get snapshots at long ranges (with the occasional miss)... or the clonetroopers, who were also good shots... or Han Solo... or Leia...
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Anyone 15 or older with a modern submachine gun or small caliber combat rifle would own the crew of the E-E or the Remans.
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A Palestinian 10 year old boy throwing rocks would defeat an Enterprise crewman in battle.
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Darth Wong wrote:A Palestinian 10 year old boy throwing rocks would defeat an Enterprise crewman in battle.
I'm not sure I'd be willing to take it quite that far, but you have a point...
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Give me a vibroblade and i'll capture the Enterprise! (without injury above a light bruising) :twisted:
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Exonerate wrote:Throughout the whole movie, I had to wonder how they could've missed shots 5 meters away... I mean, cmon! Then there's the fact that they miss repeatedly at that range. Any 9 year old kid who's played FPSs before would have better aim.
At last! Continuity in modern Star Trek. Following on from the trends set in DS9 where trained security personnel can miss slow moving targets at 5m range, they have lovingly recreated this non-skill at arms in the Movies. Who says B&B don't use continuity?

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*jaeger115's ship burns through the paper-thin hull of the E-E. He drops in and all hell break loose. A half-hour later the whole crew is dead. :twisted:
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Data was missing like hell too. There goes those Data vs. xx stormtroopers threads.
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jaeger115 wrote:*jaeger115's ship burns through the paper-thin hull of the E-E. He drops in and all hell break loose. A half-hour later the whole crew is dead. :twisted:
Jesus Christ, 215 posts in 5 days, I think I was write about the Mike6002 clone thing.
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Exonerate wrote:Why can't people aim straight?!?
Because they're crack soldiers.......compared to the Dominion.
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Well it wass 6 days. Mr Bean, David, and others had a larger post count in 5 days and Mike had over 500 in five days.
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Exonerate wrote:Why can't people aim straight?!?
Because they're crack soldiers.
Or soldiers on crack. My mother shoots better than Federation soldiers (literally).
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