Many reviewers have observed that often the writers introduce convenient technology failures to support plots. In this case, the ship's transporters are not functioning properly except from very low orbit.
However Voyager possesses a number of shuttlecraft and in many previous episodes the crew have used the transporters aboard these smaller craft successfully from high orbit.
In one episode Paris even remotely transported a bunch of Talaxians to Voyager to recapture it from the Kason. So why couldn't they transport from shuttlecraft?
I won't even bother commenting on the ridiculous idea that a hippy from the sixties could understand technology from 900 years in the future. So that would be like a person from the year 1096 understanding computers made in the 1990s. Really?
However Voyager possesses a number of shuttlecraft and in many previous episodes the crew have used the transporters aboard these smaller craft successfully from high orbit.
In one episode Paris even remotely transported a bunch of Talaxians to Voyager to recapture it from the Kason. So why couldn't they transport from shuttlecraft?
I won't even bother commenting on the ridiculous idea that a hippy from the sixties could understand technology from 900 years in the future. So that would be like a person from the year 1096 understanding computers made in the 1990s. Really?