"I was playing with Straub during the beta and we entered a system and an encounter started. The red alert klaxons went off and Kris said “Shields up!” Now, shields are always up in Star Trek online. You can divert power from one side to another, and they can certainly be weakened, but you never have to remember to put them up. They’re always up. But you know what? Kris knows that when you enter an encounter in Star Trek, you fucking say “Shields up!"
