An informal report was preferable to no report at all, at least, and Spock suspected that Captain Kirk would be more inclined to respond through unofficial channels during their time in Taxon. It was difficult to follow Starfleet protocol to the letter when Starfleet was, by all accounts, both spatially and temporally distant.

"I was not aware that there were any male Orions in residency. It is likely that a resident with a different planetary origin was affected by a 'glitch'."