User blog comment:Suparockr/List of Plotholes throughout the series/@comment-2250460-20120717034618

Here is one that really bothers me; how come in Tali's recruitment mission on Haestrom, Shepard had to risk his/her life (and make a potentially difficult experience for the player) by having to go and gather charges to blow up that pillar, when he/she could have easily climbed over it.

I mean come one. That pillar had to have been six feet high tops, I could have easily climbed over it.

You could say it's because of Shepard's heavy armor and guns, but I think thats a cheap excuse, besides, isn't it mentioned somewhere that Alliance Soldiers have special implants that give them a boost in strength, and even if that isn't true, it's freaking Commander Shepard, he should have been able to do it.