<Lt. Cmdr. Max Mortimer, Main Bridge>

Mortimer re-configures the Ops console to show shield status (in a little window at the bottom right of the display, if anybody is interested.)

While doing this, the "Communications" window flips past. 

"Captain, Mr Tarak's comm badge is emitting a signal of a type I haven't seen before."
[The power flowing through him is cross-circuiting circuitry, outputting a random signal]

[If we're ever going to get to Starbase 336, I suppose we have to get Tarak back aboard first.
Of course, we can't beam him back unless we drop the shields. He may be clinically dead, but I suppose we can revive him with all of this 24th century technology. However, I've just realised that we don't have a Medical Officer!]

"We can't beam him back directly, but if we drop the shields on one side of the ship for a few seconds, we may be able to launch a shuttlecraft and beam him onto that. It'll be dangerous for whoever is flying it, though."

[This will need someone with medical training, as well, and I don't have any record of anybody being medically trained.  If anybody has, EMail me so I can 'retrieve the personnel records' and suggest a shuttlecraft crew to the Captain if he requests it]