The most stupid is starfleet academy. They are attacked in front. The commander orders on bridge "move all shields forward". How more stupid can it get.
Again a WW2 'fantasy'.
The dreadnought battleship type was crown of WW1-era developments, it had thorough fat armor protection throughout. But it was heavy and slow. Designers realized they could strip armour from various parts of the ship, leaving the central citadels well protected, fore and aft armour sacrificed, in turn lose weight and have a better hydrodynamic profile. That was interwar, and in WW2 with air threats, the new designs also had to put way more top plating.
A magic solution for them would be a button that shuffles the armour. That's what those "shields" are.
The phaser does travel for enough time for trajectory detection, let alone torpedoes. Computer can do the shield reconfig.
But then you lose the naval plot device, a captain ordering his crew something to be done. It is also a show about humans...
Therein is the rub. The more our world evolves in the direction it is going, the more StarTrek fades into the realm of pure fantasy instead of sci-fi. We face existential threats as a species; threats that I'm not confident we will overcome. Some of those threats are enhanced by current viewpoints about ethical technology use, of more precisely..the lack thereof.
Canonically, Star Trek begins with this kind of society imploding.
Every time someone in recent past was awed by some of our inventions like AI, and said, wow we're living in Star Trek, I would remind them the Star Trek starts after WW3 and 200 million human deaths.
There is no ethical technology use and there will never be.
