Headscratchers / Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E1 "The Child"

• Troi is impregnated by some unknown alien with unknown intent. They discuss abortion, which Troi shoots down, but they should have then removed her from the ship. Even if they weren’t on a critical mission, there is immense potential danger here. The life form could've be a parasitic infection for all the crew knows.
  • At the least, they should've beamed the thing into a storage tank with a force field. This wasn't a "baby", Troi didn't become pregnant the usual way, wasn't thinking of becoming pregnant, and was "infected" with this thing. Even if removing the life form endangered Troi, it's the life of one crew member vs. the other thousand. An easy decision.
  • Also, why wasn't Troi freaking out about being suddenly impregnanted by some alien "thing"? A regular unplanned pregnancy scares many women today, nevermind an alien pregnancy, from out of nowhere?? Even Dr. Pulaski and Captain Picard should've seen the potential danger here.
• When containment breaks down, Hester Dealt says they can’t transport the biological samples into space because it’ll eventually come in contact with a planet or another starship, and cause biological devestation. So why didn't this highly-trained crew, who are trained to deal with emergencies...
  • ...beam the sample onto a shuttle, put the shuttle on auto-pilot, and then send it to a haz-mat facility for containment?
  • ...beam the sample into space, and hit it with either phasers or a photon torpedo?
  • ...attach the sample to a Class 1 probe and send the probe directly into a main sequence star?
  • ...beam the sample into a portable pattern buffer and store it there to deal with later?
  • ...beam the sample into the main pattern buffer, and then delete the pattern, erasing it from existence?
  • ...put the sample in a sealed tritanium box, and tow it behind the ship to a qualified facility? (And if they wanna be Crazy-Prepared, they could also put a torpedo in the box, armed and ready to detonate if anything goes wrong.)
  • Nahhh, let's just give everyone the Idiot Ball, remind the audience of Saucer Separation (which doesn't happen) and pointlessly put the entire ship at risk for the sake of tying the A-Plot and B-Plot together.