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Basically, yeah. There was a disruptive distortion field around the planet. Transporter chief used two confinement beams to try and grab Riker but only one was needed so he shut the second down. The second beam had the same 'phase differential' as the distortion field so it reflected inside the atmosphere and 'beamed' Riker back to the ground, creating a split.
Voyager would have had to find a planet with this type of distortion field and adjust their confinement beam to match that of the planet. Good luck.