<Lt. Cmdr. Max Mortimer, Main Bridge>

Mortimer scans the personnel files.

[Steve - I just received your Email, but I don't feel like overruling the captains decision for you to man Ops.]

"I'll take Ensign Gallagher from Medical. Lt Hs'Parr, I could use a co-pilot."

Mortimer and Hs'Parr take the turbolift to deck 9. 

[I'm still using provisional deck numbers]

Gallagher meets them at the shuttle bay. She seems a little nervous, but according to the personnel files this is her first assignment, so it's understandable.

Four of the new 'experimental' shuttles sit in dark alcoves at the edge of the bay. 
I'll have to read up on those, maybe put in some simulated hours on the holodeck. For now, we'll just have to take an old-fashioned 'standard' shuttlecraft.

They board the shuttlecraft. Mortimer and Hs'Parr in the cabin, and Gallagher in the passenger section. Four seats are folded down to form a 'casualty recovery' area.

"Shuttlecraft T'Khut to Bridge. Requesting launch clearance"

"Permission Granted. Shuttlecraft bay doors are open. Force field is down"

Mortimer pilots the shuttlecraft ouf of the bay, and holds it in position, keeping the Lafayette between the Klingon vessel and the T'Khut.

"Mr. Hs'Parr, get ready on the transporter."

"T'Khut to Lafayette, can you get a sensor lock on our missing crew. Give us the co-ordinates as soon as you have them"

[The enhanced sensors on the Lafayette are more likely to locate them than the reduced system on the shuttlecraft]

In the back of the shuttlecraft, Gallagher starts sorting through the shuttles medical supplies, locating anything that could be needed when the casualties are beamed aboard.