In Star Trek Bridge Crew, the shields have to go down before you start taking damage to your hull. The shields stay at 0% for a long time, but eventually they decide it's time to recharge, and they go from 0% to 100% in a few seconds.
What determines how long they stay down before recharging? Is it an amount of time not being hit by enemy fire? Does shield power or whether the shields are up/down have any impact?
Best Answer
Shields begin to recharge 75 seconds after the most recent damage dealt to them, regardless of the amount of power routed to shields. You cannot speed this up by manually lowering & raising shields or traveling via impulse or warp to another location.
This has been tested by a few different players, who posted their results on the Ubisoft forums: