how they get scotty to beam off that ship with the shields up?
Note that La Forge and Scotty are beamed off of the USS Jenolan before it is destroyed, despite the fact that they did not drop the ship's shields to allow transport beforehand. The Star Trek TNG Companion mentions this error and that the error wasn't discovered by the staff until after the episode aired. One possible in-universe explanation could be that because the Jenolan and Enterprise were working together, the Enterprise would have known the shield frequency of the Jenolan and would have been able to match the transporters to the same setting to penetrate them, much like the Duras sisters did with photon torpedoes in Star Trek Generations; this technique was in fact used to beam The Doctor off the USS Voyager in VOY: "Flesh and Blood".
I suppose you're talking about TNG's Relics. Here's what Memory Alpha has on the matter:
Note that La Forge and Scotty are beamed off of the USS Jenolan before it is destroyed, despite the fact that they did not drop the ship's shields to allow transport beforehand. The Star Trek TNG Companion mentions this error and that the error wasn't discovered by the staff until after the episode aired. One possible in-universe explanation could be that because the Jenolan and Enterprise were working together, the Enterprise would have known the shield frequency of the Jenolan and would have been able to match the transporters to the same setting to penetrate them, much like the Duras sisters did with photon torpedoes in Star Trek Generations; this technique was in fact used to beam The Doctor off the USS Voyager in VOY: "Flesh and Blood".
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