Question above. My only experience is with a handful of episodes from the original series. They were OK, but I'm not sure I want to watch the whole thing. It's a little too low budget for me. Can I just jump into the movies or one of the later series?
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This isn’t a problem unique to DS9, from my recollections. I’ve only watched a handful of TNG episodes, but the Enterprise never seemed to hold up like it should in ship-to-ship combat. They’d encounter one random pirate ship and a single shot would take their shields down to 30% and make the bridge shake. The ships were always as strong or weak as needed, despite the Enterprise ostensibly being a high quality capital ship. Absolutely writing for drama rather than consistency.
To be fair, power isn't an unlimited resource in their setting. They need unobtainium and can't synthesize it. The shields always taking a strong hit could be the defenses are calibrated for a non-combat scenario, meant to deflect micro-meteors and whatnot, and they only divert more power to shields in a combat setting, so of the 10% of full power they have on the shields at the point of counterattack, they lose 30% of that, and don't even go all-in on the shields in combat unless the situation calls for it, to save fuel.
But that's headcanon territory.