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I wouldn't trust a Burke in the middle of the night when conditions are so bad that you're basically down to eyball Mk.1 for a sensor suite and the opponent a) knows how to fight in those conditions b) can take a 5" shell without flinching and c) can return the favor with a salvo of 8"HE or worse.

Naval nuclear reactors are basically unshielded because there's not enough space or displacement for 6 feet of concrete and 2 inches of lead.

When you have warp drives, deflector shields, FTL sensors, and FTL weapons which can breach defenses with ease a "hotel in space" is just asking for a disaster. The linear accelerators used for medical purposes are inside concrete vaults with approximately three foot (i.e: one meter) walls...

The main benefit of aluminum is that it's really light when compared to steel on a strength-to-weight basis. It's also worthless when used as armour because it's not dense enough or rigid enough to stop an armour peircing round and incendiary rounds can easily set aluminum on fire. EDIT...

I never explained it when writing Tintagel but the Llyrians don't really bother with armour while humanity does and knows that it'll take several feet of armour to stop our weapons. Llyrian warships have deflector shields. Human warships do not but are 3-4 orders of magnitude larger.

No, we don't Enterprize-D is 641m long (~2,100ft or 2/5 of a mile) and engineers who know what they're looking at wouldn't give any Starfleet Engineer or Seince Officer the the time of day if they think that's a good idea.