The inherent brace for impact spawns the shield distro doff shield heal. If not corrected already it will be. The JH shield with the 35% console boosts the shield to 7k te aegis shield boost to 10k. I don't think you need the shield for the polaron bump, so I'm probably going to run the aegis shield. The polaron weapons seem to be in between plasma and phaser from some early testing, without equipment buffs

Pretty sure your math is way off
35% console would boost it to 8900ish at max level

It also depends on what ship you fly and how you spec.

Just to expand further on this topic someone said polaron weapon buff
is nice. Does this buff apply to the Phased Polaron weps dropped in the final
part of 2800 series? As I would contemplate collecting the set of those
and making my excelsior a beam boat.

As I find those weps would be better than standard polaron beams

Thanks