But he would risk a quick transport beam.
Eight hundred years ago, no one had ever heard of a transport beam.
"If Enterprise maintains standard separation, there should be no way they can detect the second transport beam."
Some sort of scrambler field came up and blocked the transport beam!
"What were you thinking when you first stepped into the transport beam?"
They could easily have modulators to change the appearance of their transport beams.
He had heard of those transport beams, but thought they might be myths.
He began to wonder how long the transport beam could hold his pattern before it started to degrade.
Before anyone could say anything else, the whining of transport beams piled in on them again, this time by the half-dozen.
Twenty meters away, transport beams sizzled into form, three of them.