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[Star Trek] Is there any history of using transporter technology as a weapon, or would this be considered a war crime?

The Federation describes having a variety of technologies that enhance and disrupt transporter use. The also have some mention of the transport of biological and conventional weapons aboard spaceships, along with boarding parties to take over a ship. Is there any history of just massively transporting a starship's crew into the vacuum of space, or into a nearby star? And as a follow-up, would that be considered a war crime, or fair tactics?
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Rather selectively. First,

>The Vulcan Chu'lak modified a projectile weapon by adding a micro-transporter, allowing him to fire bullets through walls into other rooms.

Other than that, it's tremendously situational. There are thousands of things that disable transporter travel. So it's a bad weapon to rely on.

Biological weapons are useless in a ship-on-ship battle - too slow.

>And as a follow-up, would that be considered a war crime, or fair tactics?

It will very much depend. The Federation would definitely demonize it because it makes capturing ships easy, incentivizing piracy.