A lot of home shield generators these days lie about the amount of defensive energy they can muster and simply overload and shut down the first time they get really challenged. They are often optimized for the little 3MW phasers they use to demonstrate them at trade shows.
Though this happens because people just want to hook their home shield generator to the grid rather than set up the proper antimatter-based power source. Even with high quality supercapacitors storing energy over time, it often ends up with only enough energy to deflect the direction of photon torpedos rather than stop them entirely (which is probably why it hit the garage rather than the living room, at least).
His shields weren’t working? First hit just caused hull damage?
Unless he was running at Yellow Alert, his shields would have been down.
A lot of home shield generators these days lie about the amount of defensive energy they can muster and simply overload and shut down the first time they get really challenged. They are often optimized for the little 3MW phasers they use to demonstrate them at trade shows.
Though this happens because people just want to hook their home shield generator to the grid rather than set up the proper antimatter-based power source. Even with high quality supercapacitors storing energy over time, it often ends up with only enough energy to deflect the direction of photon torpedos rather than stop them entirely (which is probably why it hit the garage rather than the living room, at least).