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[General Science Fiction] Why do so many technological advanced cultures and species have an inexplicable fetish for melee weapons?

The Kree, the Wakandans, the Klingons, the Imperium of Man and other WH40K races, the corporations and Dark Symmetry from Mutant Chronicles, all of the various techno-ninjas and samurai, the soldiers from the TV show Dominion, a variety of species from Star Wars, the Asgardians, and plenty of others I'm sure I'm forgetting. All have at least segments of their societies militaries who dedicate themselves to melee combat, despite the plethora of technologically superior options available to them. Why?
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It's usually one or a combination of three things:

**Tradition.** Sometimes the culture celebrates melee combat and views ranged combat as something less virtuous. Klingon, Jedi, and Yautja culture all agree on this, for example. 

**Technology.** Sometimes the tech makes melee combat more practical. Jedi can deflect blaster bolts. Astartes have the speed to get in range quickly and the armor to tank hits. So do Protoss Zealots. 

**Special circumstances.** Sometimes the situation forces you to fall back on old-fashioned ways of killing. In *Dune*, personal shields turn into nukes when you shoot them, so you gotta resort to slow-mo knife fights. In *The Forever War* there's stasis fields that neutralize all electromagnetic radiation, so you need swords to fight in them. Sometimes the enemy is resistant to ranged weapons, like in *Highlander*, *The Matrix*, and any *Star Trek* episode involving the Borg.