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omega defense, planetary defense & star system defense
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In some cases this isn't unrealistic. Standard shields, Star Trek-style, operate at a standard frequency that allows weapons to penetrate it if they operate at a harmonic to that frequency. Similaraly, phasors and such normally operate at a limited frequency.
In one episode of TNG, the Enterprise was reprogrammed slightly so that the shields rapidly changed frequency (the 'multiphasic' shields). Weapons have a hard time penetrating the shield because the harmonics are unpredictable, but it could still be bypassed with luck.
It's not inconcievable to draw that out one step farther, and assume that weapons couldn't be similarly reprogrammed, and given that most Starfleet vessels had four seperate shield generators that covered limited areas rather tha none monolithic shield, that another simple change in the shield generator's programming couldn't allow for the shields to actually operate at multiple frequencies simultaneously (possibly with a corresponding weakening at the points the old shield setup would have the shields meet), which would eliminate the main weak point: that they can still be bypassed without actually being lowered or overloaded.
They took it to an extreme in Voyager, but it's not entirely (emphasis on 'entirely'...they did take it to a rediculous extreme) dues ex machena.
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