Brother to Sami Turner, he functions as the ships Senior Communications Officer as well as Chief of Security. He is well versed in xenolinguistics and is efficient in many forms of Combat. Malik and his sister typically have not served together, however, due to the scarcity of properly trained Communications Officers, there was little choice in his assignment to the Exeter. He sternly believes that his sister over-reached and got him reassigned to the Exeter and is not afraid to make his thoughts known about the subject, even though he is ultimately wrong.