Yeah, I have this vague memory of Kirk giving the order to transport "directly to sick bay", and I remember it because of the stress he put on "directly" ("Scotty, beam him<em>directly</em>to sick bay..."), but I could just be mixing up<em>Star Trek</em>s.<br/><br/>At any rate, I prefer<em>not</em>being able to beam stuff around the ship. Because that way, if something gets on board, we actually have to hunt it down, rather than just "scanning for the signature, found, beaming into space, problem solved", or having to come up with technobabble jibber-jabber for why we can't just do that. So when I write up the scene I'll just have Chandra say "get a transporter lock and prepare a medical team" - I'll leave out a mention of quarantine, and leave that to Tren to suggest.<br/><br/>The big question now is: to beam up or not to beam up? :P<br/><br/>Chandra can go either way at this point: Sonvek's last comment suggests he might be in danger of attack, so she'll want to get him out of there ASAP. On the other hand, Tren's mention of a quarantine will make her wary of beaming anyone up without more checks, so she might prefer to gamble a small security team to defend Sonvek from whatever danger he's in rather than risking the whole ship by beaming him up.<br/><br/>Put in other terms, do we want something haunting the ship, or do we want to go down and Scooby-doo? :P<br/><br/>EDIT: Or I guess option c is "first we beam him up and chat with him, then we go down to look for the others".