It's the beaming of said energy pack in TVH that stretches logic.
I don't get this one. Why would beaming an energy pack be any different from beaming a person or a turnip? We have been given no indication that the energy state of the beamee would matter one way or the other: an energetic transportable doesn't "yank the beam" any worse than a cold and dead one. And why should it?
We are given many examples of the beaming of high energy sources. Our heroes beam around with their phasers on their belts - and these devices can power a shuttlecraft enough to make it reach space! Wesley even once beamed with enough oomph to get an entire starship going (if only for a couple of seconds). Not to mention that our heroes have beamed, or ordered to be beamed even though plot complications then thwarted the attempt, entire warp-capable shuttlecraft.
For all we know, phasers are based on the premise of beaming lots of energy at the enemy, using the very same "phased stream" concept as the transporters.
There are clear differences between firing a handgun and firing a rifle, most notably aiming.
The problem with that is that Trek guns seem to do their own aiming... It's not necessary to point and shoot - shooting will suffice!
Timo Saloniemi
