Yeah. That's totally in character for Picard "Hahahaha! That shield is so weak, we might as well transport a lighted fart at it!" He was so prone to "laugh his ass off" at inferior opponents that ... oh, wait. He DIDN'T act like that, did he?Luke Skywalker wrote: Picard's reaction is hardly indicative of the shields being several orders of magnitude weaker than the norm. He did not do what he should have done, which is to laugh his ass off at the idea of a shield that is weaker than the human body, implying that a 4.3 kilojoule/second shield is weak, but not by orders of magnitude.
And, again, the point misses you by a few miles. Shield output /= shield STRENGTH. A shield with an output of a few kJ is, more likely than not, unable to field impacts from megaton-ranged weapons (which I've all but said). But for rather obvious reasons (duh, AGAIN: Lysian and Satarran weapons tech is roughly comparable. A tiny Lysian destroyer can muster a couple of megajoules to its disruptors), the whole kJ thing is a stupid exercise in wanking.
Only if it IS a pathetic showing, which you've done precisely dick toward proving. I showed you the size of that Lysian command center. I also gave you the quote that established a SINGLE PHOTON TORPEDO would have "ended" the Satarran-Lysian War. You know, just like Riker said. "One photon torpedo ought to do it."Of course, it is pathetically easy to contradict this with other examples in Trek, but I think that the entire point is to only count the most pathetic showings as canon.
Why do you absolutely refuse to compare observed effects to observed effects? That's by far the best way to measure these retarded "lowest of lowest end showings" anyway; anyone unwilling to posit most of the canon to consider those examples is just looking for a cheap way out.