Praeothmin wrote:
Really?
Yet in ST VI: TUC, we see a fully shielded E-A getting fired at, and taking damage to its hull, and the same thing happened to the Excelsior...
When?, if you mean at the end scotty points out that the shields are collapsing and the very next torp punches a hole through the E-A saucer section. Before that all they get are a few black scorch marks from the torps as their shields are weakening (also reported by scotty).
The Excelsior raises shields as soon as it drops out of warp and after that gets shot at it takes a direct hit from below to the saucer section area but does not even get a black mark to show for it, the impact does knock a few ppl on their asses though.
Praeothmin wrote:So you see, while they only had energy fields in TWoK, having shields may have simply meant that they would not have lost Warp and Impulse, and would have been battle worthy still.
But they would have taken damage, that's a given considering TUC...
I am not sure what you mean by
energy fields but it is reported that the Enterprise is running with shields down and after the Enterprise is hit they try to get shields up and fail. Kirk then asks for phasers and scotty says they have enough power for a few shots but spock says its not enough against the reliants shields.
