User blog comment:Yggdrasil Magical Tree/The Death Star VS Borg Cube Ship/@comment-4693949-20120527180128/@comment-4826523-20120618034928

The Death Star has no shields in the same way as Star Trek's shields. However, the Borg are known to disable the ship's shields as a first step in their attack, usually for 4 seconds, enough time for their technology to put several dozen drones in the ship they are attacking.