Why do people who are sitting end when beamed out end up standing when beamed in?
Something similar happened in “Bloodlines” [TNG] when Picard’s “son” was beamed off a cliff face and ended up standing on the transporter pad. This implies that either the transporter can rearrange the various components of your body, which implies that it has a deep knowledge of biology (and this isn’t supported), or that whilst in transport, some sort of force field “nudges” the transportee into an appropriate body position. So if you beam from the smooth transporter pad to bumpy “Planet Hell”, the surface you feel under your feet while in transport distorts; you have time to adjust your balance before you materialize. (This has been suggested a number of times on rec.arts.startrek.tech, most recently by Ron Klapperich.) ….
