<Lt. Cmdr. Max Mortimer, Main Bridge>

Lt. Cmdr. Kindle's voice disturbs the relative calm on the bridge.

"Bridge, this is engineering. I've been trying to locate Lt. Castillion but he is not on board or at the StarBase. Have you heard anything from him?"

Hmm. Could be our science officer has decided to spend some unauthorised shore leave on the Starbase.

Noticing the lack of a duty officer at Tactical, Mortimer punches up the sensor controls at Ops, and scans the Lafayette for mixed human/perlian life forms. After a few minutes, the scan comes up negative.

[Scan performed in case his comm badge is malfunctioning] 

"Captain, Castillion definately isn't aboard," Mortimer sighs, "I suggest we ask Starbase security to perform a scan on the starbase."

[Starbase administration being what it is, we can expect to wait a few hours for a response]

"Captain, have you made a decision on shore leave for the crew. Some of the cadet's training with us are really stressed out after encountering Klingons this far into Federation space, and I have another reminder here from Lt. Barrett requesting a four-day refit for sickbay, including conversion of the room next door, which doesn't seem to be anything important, to a critical care unit."