The shooter won, I guess.
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Picard: guns are bad
Also picard: we added lazers, torpedoes and a weapons suite to our research vessel.
Federation on S1: psychology and psychiatry have been perfected and we have solved the problem of evil.
Rest of Star Trek: 💀
Federation on S1: "Gene Roddenberry, in his infinite wisdom, has removed all interpersonal conflict. The show is borderline unwatchable and has an episode even leftists hate (Code of Honor)."
Rest of Star Trek: "Oh no! It turns out meaningful conflict is the soul of drama! Quick, make them bicker again!"
Roddenberry didn't object to conflict, he just didn't want the usual fake TV drama between the main crew members. TNG mostly avoided that pretty well, even in the later seasons.
He also demanded a "cashless society" which caused endless problems and cut a huge number of potential storylines from the show.
It's rarely, if ever, addressed that there's no money or anything else like it in the Federation. :/
And when they do, it shows the writers' confusion on how to deal with this.
I get replicators changed the game, but come on.
Maybe that's one reason why I like the Ferengi so much.
It's one of the things I was hoping the Kelvin Timeline movies would fix, like they did with getting consistent Stardates. Alas.
"Federation on S1: psychology and psychiatry have been perfected and we have solved the problem of evil."
Yet the Federation shit themselves when they ran into Armus on Vagra II.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Armus
Well in all fairness guns have to lug around a bunch of heavy ammo and they don't reach the high velocities and accuracy needed to be able to hit a moving target from 50km away, doubly so if they're conventional powder burners rather than rail or coil guns, lasers just need power(which with an antimatter generator is no problem) and some way to dump the heat