Editing 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (section)

==="Intra-ship Beaming"===
In the mid 2260s, beaming from a transporter pad to a location within the same vessel was a very risky proposition.  The limitations of the technology at that time made it highly probable that any error would result in the subject rematerializing within a bulkhead, deck, or other structure.  (TOS|Day of the Dove)  Oddly, this procedure was used without incident a century earlier.   (ENT|Chosen Realm)   Commander Riker and Tasha Yar used this operation during a rescue.  (TNG|Symbiosis)  When cargo instead of passengers was beamed aboard, Riker tells Yar to beam the cargo to the hold without a second thought.

:''Why this would be the case is not known.  A technology capable of transporting a subject over thousands of kilometers without error ''should'' be able to do so over a few dozen meters easily, though one could speculate that the emitters are focused away from the ship, as shown in the technical manuals.''

:''From the writing standpoint of the episode itself, though, if such capability ''did'' exist, then it would have been an easy matter to free the trapped crewmen in the lower decks.''