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Deflectors to maximum?

Bayshore

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In Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2 when Riker is about to battle the romulans he orders “weapons hot, deflectors to full”. I would have thought he would have ordered shields up. I’m lost, why deflectors and not shields? No way a gaffe that big would make by all the trek nerds involved so someone enlighten me please.
 
In Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2 when Riker is about to battle the romulans he orders “weapons hot, deflectors to full”. I would have thought he would have ordered shields up. I’m lost, why deflectors and not shields? No way a gaffe that big would make by all the trek nerds involved so someone enlighten me please.
Deflector shields.
 
Riker said shields up a million times in TNG. Don’t ever remember the deflector dish being involved. It’s been a long time. Maybe it’s my memory.
 
Maybe by that time, state of the art Starfleet warships have multiple shield systems: passive ones (like polarized hull plating) and active ones (deflectors). Maybe ablative armor as well.
 
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