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We might have had the usual run-of-the-mill captain.” He sounded as if he was referring to the typical peg-legged scourge of the spaceways, pistol in one hand and cutlass in the other.
The two mottoes on his desk summed up his philosophy of life. One asked, WHAT HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN? The other said, HELP STAMP OUT BRAVERY.
True, during the last four hundred years there had been a dozen Endeavours of sea and two of space, but the ancestor of them all was the 370-ton Whitby collier that Captain James Cook, RN, had sailed around the world between 1768 and 1771.
But Cook had been not only a supreme navigator, but also a scientist and—in an age of brutal discipline—a humanitarian.
It became an urgent matter of pride and self-esteem that he should open his eyes once more and look at the world around him. But first he had to get his body under control.
