#after asking what that means and getting a politely-worded explanation the main char goes “so you want someone stupid”

[starfightervicki]

You know what I love about Pakleds?

In some franchises, WE are the Pakleds.

Babylon 5. Who made the jump gates? Who knows? Who cares? Let's use 'em! Other species have artificial gravity tech and we don't? We'll stick something together anyway, and use it to make friends with the species that came thiiiis close to destroying us. And if our first four attempts at that end in disaster, we'll make a fifth.

Stargate. Stargate is "humans take alien tech we don't understand and find a way to use it: the movie: the show: the spin-off: the other spin-off."

Stargate lives and breathes humans using alien tech we couldn't make ourselves. And while we are the idiots of the galaxy, we also become a major player in galactic matters, with tech we couldn't make on our own.

Aliens are smart. We are not strong.

We don't let that stop us.