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how they get scotty to beam off that ship with the shields up?

 

[Michael]

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".

 

[splodenode]

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".

snazzy

 

[Timo]

Another possibility is that the shields were voluntarily dropped shortly before transport. But since the two stranded engineers didn't really know the E-D heroes would be coming to rescue them at that particular second, this sounds unlikely.

A more workable version would have the E-D remotely shut down the shields of the other vessel just before transport - surely a trivially easy task against such an outdated and unresisting opponent, regardless of whether it involved accessing normal Starfleet remote control protocols or aggressively hacking into the system.

The likeliest in-universe theory in my mind is that the two engineers always expected to be rescued by transporter, so they configured their shields to be transparent to transporter beams. That's not good form in combat, but they weren't in combat: it might have been simple to tune the shields to only repel the pressure of the doors and to be transparent to pretty much everything else.

Timo Saloniemi