| abstract | - A search pattern was a maneuver performed aboard a starship to locate someone or something. This article or section is incomplete This page is marked as lacking essential detail, and needs attention. Information regarding expansion requirements may be found on the article's talk page. Feel free to [ edit] this page to assist with this expansion. In 2267, Montgomery Scott performed a search pattern for a missing freighter but noticed a trap to navigate the USS Enterprise away from Capella IV. (TOS: "Friday's Child" ) Later that year, despite finding nothing but debris in star system L-370, where previously seven planets had existed, James T. Kirk ordered Hikaru Sulu to continue a search pattern to find the source of the USS Constellation's distress call. (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" ) In 2372, Commander Chakotay ordered a standard search pattern for the continuous scans of the surface of a planet controlled by the Mokra Order to find the missing away team. (VOY: "Resistance")
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