Mark said:
No shields yet? Just armor, perhaps, is the reason? Confirmation, anyone?
Indeed, you cannot use transporters through shields, which Enterprise doesn't have yet.
I infer that Xindii do have shields, so they can drop them for a millisecond, beam someone, raise them back. Of course, Archer cannot beam Xindii, as they are thusly protected by their shields.
All speculation of course, but IIRC, it is standard Star Trek physics that you can't beam through shields. And it would make sense for what we've seen of that Ep.
Assuming all this, it begs to be asked why Xindii just didn't beam the whole Enterprise crew into space (I beleive reptilians could be considered Chaotic Evil from that episode), but I would say that they just had time for Yoshi because A) they were fired upon from their new Xindii hostiles and B) they were hyper-spacing right after that.
So Yoshi is gone. When considering that 23 crewmen are already dead (almost all red shirts), I hope they won't risk a lot in order to retreive her. Risking the mission for a single person would go against the grain of the current storyline, as we've seen that Archer would steep down quite low for the mission's sake.
That Ep. was a blast. Just finished watching it. I can't wait for the next one.