[tnpir4001]

As far as the question about shields, it came up on YouTube as well. My answer is that if you look at "All Good Things" from TNG, "Sacrifice of Angels"/"Favor the Bold" or "Tears of the Prophets" from DS9, we never saw visible shields on the ships then either. Curiously, in "Tears," we did see the regenerative forcefields around the weapons platforms...but I figure, with that much precedent, no reason I should show them in these battle sequences either.