<Lt. Cmdr. Max Mortimer, Starbase 336 Security>

The turbolift arrives at the security complex. Mortimer steps through a scanner into the Duty Officers office, and is greeted by an Andorian wearing lieutenant's pips.

"I'm Lt. Cmdr. Mortimer from the USS Lafayette, currently docked here. One of our officers appears to have gone missing just after docking."

"Gone AWOL, hasss he", comes the hissing reply.

"Seems like a likely possibility. Lieutenant Carlos Storm Castillion, Human/Perlian. He's fresh out of the academy, and we just had an encounter with some rebel Klingons, so he could have just run off somewhere to calm down. We can't locate his COMM badge, and there are no Human/Perlian life forms on the Lafayette according to our scans. You can get a copy of his record through our LCARS database.

"I'm afraid that mossst of our persssonnel have their handsss full at the moment. There'ssss a couple of Ferengi sssshhhhipsss docked here at the moment, sssso we're keeping our eyesssss on them. However, you have my asshhurancccce that we will do our besssst."

"Would it help you if we assigned some of our security personnel to help you"

"That would be mosssst helpful. Thank you"

"If you find him, you'll be doing us the favor. Thank you."

"Mortimer to Xavier. Starbase security are going to search for Lt. Castillion. Could you assign half of your personnel to help them for two days, and switch them with the ones on shore leave after that."

"Mortimer to Kindle. If you have any engineers cross-trained in security, we need to assign them to help Starbase security to search for Castillion. Assign them in a couple of two-day shifts to allow everybody some shore leave."

Mortimer leaves the security office and heads off to have a look around the starbase.