I'd like to have seen someone beam a big stationary rock in front of a fast moving enemy ship.
Why can't the transporter be a weapon?
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Yep, got my beamed-out baddies confused.
I'd like to have seen someone beam fifty photon torpedoes in front of a fast-moving enemy ship. Shields up or not.
Okay, then... I'd like to see it again! 
An infamous bowling ball bomb could be transported on board a ship. I assume that it's just a really big torpedo warhead mounted on an antigrav dohickey.
Maybe they could use the transporter to drop a piano on the enemy captain's head.
I don't think that will work unless the enemy captain is a member of the races Carnivorous vulgaris (subspecies Eatibus anythingus or Famishius fantasticus).
That wouldn't work unless the shields were down. And once the shields are down you've won anyways.
Having the shields up pretty much negates most uses of the transporter as a weapon.
Now if you could disguise the bowling ball bomb as something the enemy ship would want to bring onboard. You could disguise it as a flight recorder or escape pod belonging to another enemy vessel. And transport it into a debris field.
Now if you could disguise the bowling ball bomb as something the enemy ship would want to bring onboard. You could disguise it as a flight recorder or escape pod belonging to another enemy vessel. And transport it into a debris field.
As I stated earlier in my, ahem, more blood-thirsty post, even if the transporter's offensive capabilities are prevented, it can still be used as a defensive weapon.
It can easily be used to dispel boarders; why get some redshirts killed by enemy fire, if a transport and the vacuum of space can take care of them quicker?
Spacing the enemy boarders is too clean. Have them beamed to the shuttlebay. Their weapons deactivated and standing in front of a firing squad.
The thought seems like it would run afoul of a federation rules of war that certainly must exist in some form.
Like I've said before: transport fifty photon torpedoes right outside the shield radius and see how well the shields deal with that.
If they hold out, do it again.
Beam, rinse, repeat.
Beam all the intruder's various internal organs into separate containers in the ship's medical organ bank.
Waste not, want not.
No different from any other form of combat-- particularly because in Trek no one seems to have invented automatic or computer-assist targeting. On the other hand, since we're talking about applying some intelligence to Treknology, perhaps we can assume the introduction of that as well.
Also the yield from this kind of an attack is an order of magnitude greater than what we see onscreen. The odds are reasonable that you'd only have to fire once.
See last point above. (Assuming they didn't do it to you first.
)I think if multiple combatants adopted this tactic, what you'd see is an "arms race" over extending the range of the transporter. The side that can stay beyond transporter range of their enemy and still deliver a beamed torpedo volley will win practically every time.
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Beam all the intruder's various internal organs into separate containers in the ship's medical organ bank.
Waste not, want not.
Porthos gotta eat.
And he likes his meat fresh.
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