Are the "sensor domes" really shield generators?

[Who is like God arbour]

You are right.

[Mith]

The whole conning tower domes are sensor domes, not shield generators thing stems once again from the Saxtonite attempts at revising what we see and hear in the movies. The dome got destroyed by the A-wings, and the bridge deflector is stated as being down. Enough said.

It would actually be poor engineering on the Empire's part, if they allowed for a design on a ship as important as an SSD to have a cascading systems' failures that lets something like the destruction of a sensor dome lead to a critical shield loss. But then again, the crashing of the lone A-wing leading to such a catastrophic series of explosions that leads to the complete destruction of the SSD's conning tower would support the idea that the loss of a sensor dome would lead to a multiple systems failure and the loss of the deflector shield.

And the Warsies complain about the Galaxy class being poorly designed! ;-)
-Mike

Hey, at least our shield generators are located under the heavy armor!=P

Also, they worked those bugs out of the GCS in time for the Dominion War.