From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 4:52:44 PM UTC-8, Tim Bruening wrote:   
   > Major Nit: Near the end of Starship Troopers, a large number of troop ships   
   approach bug infested Planet P to land troops in order to capture a "brain   
   bug".  The bugs are firing some sort of plasma weapon up at the troop ships.    
   The troop ships make    
   absolutely no effort to defend themselves!  They don't take any evasive   
   action, or fire defensive missiles at the bug plasma balls, or raise any   
   shields!   
      
   At one point, a soldier is captured an mortally wounded by a bug, so the   
   commander of the troop kills him to spare him further agony and asks that the   
   same be done for him if necessary.  Later, the commander is sucked into a bug   
   hole and his legs are    
   dissolved.  The commander therefore orders Rico to shoot him to stop the   
   agony.     
      
   It appears common for soldiers to be mortally wounded by bug claws or teeth or   
   acid.  Since there is a policy of putting such soldiers out of their misery,   
   why don't these soldiers routinely carry suicide bombs which they would set   
   off if mortally    
   wounded by a bug, so as to take the bug with them?   
      
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