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** Site-to-site transporting is ''extremely'' power-intensive. Not to mention that the targeted crewman would have to be standing perfectly still or else the phaser would end up transported ''into'' their body by mistake.
*** The transporter-to-the-brig idea above is much more convenient, especially if you custom make the brig to have a transporter pad built in. Then it becomes point-to-pad, not point-to-point. Confiscating prisoner weapons? It's canon that a transporter can be preset to selectively choose what to transport, so that's no issue. (one running gag in any Academy-Days storyline is cadets infiltrating the transporter room immediately before its use by an intended victim, and setting it to not transport anything matching the molecular structure of nylon, rayon, or other common synthetic fibers found in cadet uniforms. Cue the victim appearing at his destination in falling-apart rags if not outright naked.). You can make that "transporter-to-the-escape-pod" if you prefer to run away from a fight.
**** You still need to be still for a few moments, and it's not as easy to log on to someone that's not wearing one of your own communicators. (As seen in "Rascals" when they stick Starfleet comm badges on the Ferengi boarders to do exactly what you're saying.) Plus any boarders that are prepared to be boarders probably have something on them to make getting a transporter lock more difficult. To make your idea work you'd probably have to shoot the boarder with one of the transponder tags they use in "Insurrection", and at that point if you're shooting them may as well shoot them with a stun beam.
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