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It's Starfleet. Starfleet runs on the rule of plot, technobabble, and nonsensoleum. In one DS9 episode Ezri Dax had to use what was basically an old-fashioned rifle equipped with really advanced senors and and a transporter to shoot someone.

Themselves and that's about it.

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if my great-grandfather's WWI unit could kick the shit out of whatever the hell ST film producers think ground combat is like. They'd have trench coats, gas masks, and bayonetted Winchester model 1897s. There's a reason why a 12-gauge pump action shotgun...

"BOOM!" is dramatic. "No effect" from the guy or gal responsible for the shields is not.