First Contact with the Borg, E-D looses a few sections/decks.Jim wrote:That made me think, I do not recall many inages of actual damage during the TNG years. I remember obvious hull damge shown in Khan, and damage shown in VOY... but I really do not recall seeing damage in the TNG tv series.
Now that is maybe a bit of a stretch but....
During ENT we had something called polarized armor....which was a kinda forcefield strengthening the material itself (kinda like a military grade SIF), which means that there was no visible effect and weapons still did some damage.
Now what if all ships right to the TNG era had a similar system, just more advanced, working a bit different but essentially the same way, since force field bubbles preventing damage from reaching the ship where just not effective enough? Flash forward to TWoK or TuC. They take damage in just the same way the NX Enterprise did, their hull get shoot and burned and scorched despite shields being up.
Would there be anything contradictory to that prior to TNG? Are there instances hinting at shields being a classical forcefield or bubble and not just a form of "polarized armor"?