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The Last Ship

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The Last Ship	comment	The Last Ship is a series produced by Michael Bay that aired on TNT for five seasons from 2014 to 2018. Loosely based on the William Brinkley novel of the same name, it tells the story of a captain and his crew struggling to survive after a pandemic has infected 80% of the world's population and having to deal with a new world order that doesn't necessarily want their help.The show was an immediate ratings success and quickly renewed, including a two season pick up after its third. The show ran for five seasons in total.Has a recap page that needs some TLC.Also, this series has some overarching plot lines that extend through several episodes and/or an entire season, so there will be unmarked spoilers on this page.
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The Last Ship / int_105f4bd9	type	Villain: Exit, Stage Left
The Last Ship / int_105f4bd9	comment	Villain: Exit, Stage Left: "Patient Zero", the doctor from the Russian battlecruiser, can be seen leaving the ship in Russian uniform - probably in disguise - before it explodes.
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The Last Ship / int_110a7d7	type	Finale Season
The Last Ship / int_110a7d7	comment	Finale Season: The fifth season was announced to be its last.
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The Last Ship / int_1230e19e	type	Overranked Soldier
The Last Ship / int_1230e19e	comment	Overranked Soldier: General Bradley, the head of Castillo's military, was given his rank as an incentive to side with the terriorial leaders. Slattery scoffs at seeing how Bradley is now a four star general as the "California" military is nowhere near large enough to justify someone having such a high rank. In Season 5, Chandler, Slattery, and Meylan are four star admirals despite the Navy not being large enough to justify all three of them holding that rank. No one begrudges them their rank, however, due to the promotions being in recognition of all they've done in the wake of the Red Flu.
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The Last Ship / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
The Last Ship / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Usually averted, but a Season 5 episode shows pro-Tavo Cubans just slumping over after being hit with a burst from a Browning .50-cal at less than 100 yards. Realistically those guys shouldâ€™ve turned into paint.
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The Last Ship / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Last Ship / int_1439161f	comment	"Don't Look Back." Alison Shaw assassinates Price after cleverly drawing her to St. Louis to arm a drone first. She then kidnaps Chandler's children. Chandler and Tex, meanwhile, nearly successsfully take out her minions on the plane, except Tex has been gutshot and is bleeding out badly. Chandler's Heroic BSoD, combined with Shaw's nasty "The Reason You Suck" Speech, causes him to shoot her out of hand. He decides to leave the Navy.
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The Last Ship / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
The Last Ship / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: Nathan James gets reinforcements from Australian and Israeli navy personnel stranded in America due to the outbreak of the Red Flu in their respective countries. In Season 4 they get a member of an African navy to join the ground team. Ramsay's crew are a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits from various now-defunct European militaries.
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The Last Ship / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Last Ship / int_14ed6ab7	comment	"No Place Like Home." Nathan James does return home, only to find that the government and society have completely collapsed, the streets are filled with dead and infected people, and the only law and order comes from brutal militias. Chandler finds his family, but he's too late to save his wife. And the only government figure to be found is formulating a plan to rebuild society in her image while committing mass murder in order to achieve it.
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The Last Ship / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
The Last Ship / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Wolf Taylor, an expert martial artist who is muscle-bound and lightning-quick, fights opponents who handily hand him his ass surprisingly often.
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The Last Ship / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Last Ship / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: The commander of the Russian Renegades, Admiral Ruskov. Amy Granderson, who leads Avocet, the quasi-corporate/governmental overseer of Baltimore. Sean Ramsey, the leader of a cult of naturally-immune survivors.
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The Last Ship / int_1b89151e	type	Forgotten Phlebotinum
The Last Ship / int_1b89151e	comment	Forgotten Phlebotinum: The helicopter pops into and out of their minds as the plot demands, although the first season finale justifies its absence towards the end of the season with Chandler stating that all the aviation fuel was used in the search for Tex and himself. It becomes more important in Season 3 when a new helicopter pilot character is added. The Nathan James is supposed to have a team from the Naval Mountain Warfare Unit attached to the crew (distinguished by their different uniforms), but aside from the first few episodes, Danny Green is the only member seen taking part in missions. Even their dog, which was first seen practically attached to Danny's hip, is missing for several episodes. note On the other hand, they've also been taking casualties; Frankie Benz killed himself after Red Flu infection, Cruz was badly wounded at Gitmo, and another two members were killed by the Russians. Given how small the team was, it's quite possible that Danny's the only person left.
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The Last Ship / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
The Last Ship / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: In the season one finale, Baltimore's coal-fired power plant has been repurposed to burn dead bodies, of which Granderson is ensuring a steady supply. In "Legacy", Allison Shaw and the regional leaders defend their decision to break up the United States into smaller nations by claiming it is to prevent the country from becoming a dictatorship. However it is revealed the new nations themselves will be just as bad (if not worse), as the leaders are in the process of having massive prisons built in their jurisdictions to hold any dissenters who might oppose the coup and support constitutional government. It is since revealed that the regional leaders are all but literally treating their people like cattle to be shuffled around and worked half to death for a pittance in food.
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The Last Ship / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
The Last Ship / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: In "Legacy", after Peng is neutralized and President Oliver is freed from their influence, Allison Shaw and the regional leaders dissolve the federal government and kill all senior military leadership in a Night of the Long Knives-style massacre, securing control of the military for themselves.
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The Last Ship / int_1c785368	type	Badass Israeli
The Last Ship / int_1c785368	comment	Badass Israeli: IDF Lt. Ravit Bivas. She was on a Joint Operation Training Program with the US Navy in Virginia when the virus broke out, leaving her stranded stateside. She, and an Australian Navy DCT operator who was in the same program, later join the crew of the "Nathan James" in Season 2.
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The Last Ship / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
The Last Ship / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: The fact that the ship has over 200 crew is just to quote at pivotal moments. When they send a group over to the cruise liner, of course they send the captain (instead of a subordinate who would report back) and the lead scientist (who already knows what the virus look like and any medical crew from the ship could have taken a blood sample). They do try to hold the lead scientist back in the next episode, realizing that she is too valuable to risk. Unlike Horatio Hornblower, Chandler usually doesn't have any excuse. Then again, sometimes Hornblower didn't either, as he admitted to himself. The Command Master Chief and the Captain participate in pretty much every mission away from the ship. His XO seems to be a little smarter than his captain, staying on the ship when he knows he's the only commanding officer. This trope is justified, however, as most of the crew on a modern Naval vessel are there to keep the ship running, not to carry out missions off the ship. Very few warships today have many extra personnel, as modern doctrine favors avoiding being hit at all rather than taking hits and surviving. Other than the Naval Mountain Warfare Unit team (which was only temporarily attached to the ship and rapidly dwindled to just Green and his dog), the rest of the Visit, Board, Search, & Seizure party are Sailors who normally have other jobs. In 4x03, Slattery, who is currently the Captain of the James, joins the tac team for no explained reason. He gets wounded shortly after they find the retired Chandler, conveniently enough. Subverted and lampshaded in the series finale when Tavo expects Chandler to personally lead the team assaulting Tivo's HQ and feels insulted that Chandler stayed behind on the Nathan James.
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The Last Ship / int_2196347f	type	Action Politician
The Last Ship / int_2196347f	comment	Action Politician: Chinese President Peng in Season 3. When he and his men are attacked by Chandler whilst destroying the Japanese National Archives in Tokyo, he draws his own sidearm and fights alongside his bodyguards. Justified, as he used to be the head of MSS before deciding he really wanted to be his own boss.
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The Last Ship / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Last Ship / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: When the Nathan James returns to the United States, the devastation that the virus wrought upon civilization is readily apparent.
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The Last Ship / int_2206fd8c	type	Fallen States of America
The Last Ship / int_2206fd8c	comment	Fallen States of America: By Season 2, All that left of United States as a political entity after the Red Flu is a collection of settlements and cities in Midwest with significantly weakened Federal government, right before it descended into collection of warlords once the said government was overthrown. Though the aid of United States Navy and the Federal loyalists put down the usurpers and managed to restore the government by the end of Season 3.
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The Last Ship / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
The Last Ship / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: In the first-season finale, it's mentioned that Alisha Granderson's girlfriend was deployed to a hot zone... by Chairman Granderson, who never really approved of her daughter's "lifestyle choice".
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The Last Ship / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Last Ship / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Jacob Barnes has one of the sawed-off variety... Captain Meylan grouses that China's guided missile destroyers are rip-offs of the American Arleigh Burke design. This serves two purposes. In the first instance, Slattery is able to quickly use a Chinese fire control station, despite not being able to read Chinese, because the layout is identical to the one aboard Nathan James. In the second, the cabal ruling the US blows up a captured Chinese destroyer thinking that it was Nathan James and contained Chandler because it looks identical from a distance.
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The Last Ship / int_23153741	type	Suddenly Significant City
The Last Ship / int_23153741	comment	Suddenly Significant City: At the end of Season 2, St. Louis is declared the new US capital, due to its surviving infrastructure and centralized location. Season 3 reveals that Hong Kong has become the new capital of China. In Season 3, as part of division of America into semi-autonomous regions reporting to St. Louis, we see that New York, Des Moines, Texarkana, and Los Angeles become the regional capitals of the Northeast, Midwest, South, and Southwest, respectfully. (The capital of the Northwest is never mentioned.)
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The Last Ship / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
The Last Ship / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: Garnett is absent in Season 4 and returns in the Season 5 premiere only to get strafed by a plane and killed.
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The Last Ship / int_272232f7	type	Moby Schtick
The Last Ship / int_272232f7	comment	Moby Schtick: Master Chief Jeter implores to Chandler, "Don't make that sub your white whale."
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The Last Ship / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
The Last Ship / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: Tex is given a Maryland State Police uniform because he is a "security" specialist, with the implication that some of the troopers seen in uniform aren't actually cops but people who are deemed to be able to fill the position. Of course, Tex is actually infiltrating Avocet to rescue Dr. Scott and ends up rescuing Kara as well. In the season 2 finale, a group of 'Immunes' disguise themselves as US Navy sailors with uniforms stolen from an army surplus store. They do so to try and infect a group of people awaiting on the real Navy at a college campus in Memphis.
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The Last Ship / int_286eaf85	type	Dragon Ascendant
The Last Ship / int_286eaf85	comment	Dragon Ascendant: Happens several times at the end of Season 2. After Immune leaders Sean and Ned Ramsey are killed in the penultimate episode, their third-in-command Kevin McDowell takes over as Big Bad for the finale. After he is arrested, his second-in-command, Curtis, is the last one left and kills Dr. Scott.
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The Last Ship / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Last Ship / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Such a special kind of evil that in "El Toro" it is worth causing trouble even when you have been given what you need to save the rest of the world and clearance to leave the bad guys with all of your equipment returned - and even after having your guns confiscated for meddling going back and taking El Toro's camp unarmed without even first dropping off the monkeys (the actual mission objective) and picking up some weapons to assist in the assault. Of course, the logical ways of handling this situation would not have made for compelling TV.
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The Last Ship / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Last Ship / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Tex makes some progress with Dr. Scott, but decides that she has more important things to do than be distracted by a suitor.
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The Last Ship / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Last Ship / int_294ed981	comment	Admiral Ruskov, big time. In "Welcome to Gitmo" when it is pointed out to him he has more men and less food, meaning a blockade poses serious risks for him, he promptly shoots one of his officers (implied to be a high ranking aide) in the head. Again in "Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar", when he forcibly exposes another of his senior officers to the virus to test the vaccine. Viewers who speak Russian will have already noted that the officer is Ruskov's brother.
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The Last Ship / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Last Ship / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The show is called "The Last Ship", like "the last operational ship operating under a flag", but it is not what seems to be implied: "the only ship". There are other ships and boats out there that it encounters or it would probably be a really boring show. In Season 2, when Nathan James arrives at Norfolk there are several US Navy warships docked pierside, and at least one hospital ship is still afloat and operationalnote Technically, the hospital ship is an auxiliary vessel of the Naval Reserve Fleet, not a commissioned ship of the Navy, hence her "USNS" (United States Naval Ship) prefix, as opposed to "USS" (United States Ship). As an NRF ship, USNS Solace is operated by a US Merchant Marine captain and crew, with the only active-duty military personnel aboard being some of the medical staff (the rest being from the US Public Health Service). The Kirov-class battlecruiser RFS Vyerni, on the other hand, is the Last Ship of the Russian Federation's navy. Tex is actually from Reno, Nevada.
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The Last Ship / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
The Last Ship / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: Elements of the Maryland State Police act as the muscle for Granderson's faction. Granderson herself hopes to incorporate Nathan James crew into her scheme, hence her sounding her daughter out over whether or not Chandler will play ball. Agents of the Chinese Ministry of State Security pursue the heroes throughout Season 3.
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The Last Ship / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
The Last Ship / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Despite being hit by a Spearfish heavy torpedo on her port side, the worst the Nathan James suffered was losing her sonar. In reality, she would have taken far more damage (namely a hull breach). Judging from the exterior shot, the Spearfish detonated about 80 yards off the port side, so the damage makes more sense. Had it detonated below the Nathan James's keel (the preferred way to kill a surface ship with a torpedo), the blast and resulting water hammer would've broken her back. Several episodes in Season 3 have the ship get hit with weapons that would sink the ship in reality. Episode 9 of Season 3 the ship gets pounded with a land-based anti-ship missile that does damage but does not sink the ship, while the two other ships of the same class in their squadron get sunk & put dead in the water respectively. It's also oddly averted, as an Arleigh Burke destroyer should be able to easily defeat all the threats that have been launched at it on the show, in any of the episodes. The Aegis combat system was designed to defeat Cold War era missile attacks from large Soviet fleets or bomber wings. In particular, the episode where three ships of their class are targeted, the combat systems in the three ship fleet should have kept them completely protected.
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The Last Ship / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
The Last Ship / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: In the final season of series Alisha Granderson, the only explicit LGBT character in the entire show, is murdered by her fiancee after discovering that she's The Mole.
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The Last Ship / int_2b75f9b3	type	Token Good Cop
The Last Ship / int_2b75f9b3	comment	Token Good Cop: Many cops enforcing nationwide quarantines against The Virus either fail in their jobs or are too ruthlessly Darwinian, but Thorwald and several of his Baltimore PD colleagues are efficient but humane in their duties before forming La RÃ©sistance when their boss starts killing uninfected survivors without useful skills to conserve resources.
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The Last Ship / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Last Ship / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The first season quickly showed that Nathan James is not the last ship on the seas. In Season 2, she's not even the last ship in the US Navy (albeit the only one known to be operational). By Season 3, she's one of several US Navy ships tasked with reestablishing American influence throughout the world. The new seat of government is still referred to as the "White House," even though it's actually the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, and the president's office continues to be called the "Oval Office" despite being rectangular.
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The Last Ship / int_2cac316e	type	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade
The Last Ship / int_2cac316e	comment	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: The walls dividing the five nations of the former United States are only several feet tall.
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The Last Ship / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The Last Ship / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: In "Legacy", Allison Shaw and the regional leaders announce to the American public that President Oliver, along with Chandler and his men, orchestrated the death of President Michener and the capture of the Nathan James crew so they could establish a dictatorship in the United States. This lie not only covers their own asses, but makes their ulterior plan (the dismantling of the federal government and division of the United States) seem more appealing to the general public.
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The Last Ship / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
The Last Ship / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The HMS Achilles attacks and completely destroys a civilian flotilla near New Orleans, then edits the footage to make it appear that the Nathan James destroyed it. In the Season 5 premiere, agents of Gran Colombia assassinate the President of Panama right after a meeting he had with Sasha's team. This not only sours the rest of Latin America against the United States, but also serves as justification for a raid which destroys the newly rebuilt American fleet. The charade doesnâ€™t hold up for long before everyone knows who is really responsible, but by that time Panama has already fallen.
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The Last Ship / int_2df4fa08	type	Omniglot
The Last Ship / int_2df4fa08	comment	Omniglot: Chandler demonstrates that he's fluent enough in Russian to read untranslated books and converse with native speakers. He also understands Italian well enough to understand native speakers talking at full speed. He then learns Greek in Season 4, to the suprise of the rest of the crew. Sasha outdoes Chandler by demonstrating fluency in Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog, and Korean with the implication that she is conversant in many more languages.
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The Last Ship / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
The Last Ship / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: In season 3, it's revealed that Kara and Danny named their kid Frankie, after Frankie Benz, who died in the first episode.
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The Last Ship / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Last Ship / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: A Spanish mercenary and ex-navy commmando captured in "Achilles" admits that he did not participate in the massacre on USNS Solace since he joined the crew to ensure his safety. Subverted in the end of the episode when he's brought to the upper deck so that he can escape in case the others have wrecked the ship. Ned, the more pragmatic brother of Sean (the "Captain" of the HMS Achilles), doesn't like Niels Sorenson, especially when the Norwegian starts gloating about how easily he can spread his disease.
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The Last Ship / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Last Ship / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: This being a Michael Bay production, the pilot naturally features several explosions, including a nuclear one.
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The Last Ship / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Tex realizes that Danny and Kara are truly in love and takes pleasure in trying to needle Danny into doing something about it, rules or no rules. In Season 4, pretty much the entire crew ships Ray Diaz and Kathleen Nolan.
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The Last Ship / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
The Last Ship / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: The initial scenes of "Welcome to Gitmo".
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The Last Ship / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
The Last Ship / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Tex has no problems using Niels as a human shield when things go south. And he's even less sympathetic when the latter is gut shot from the effort. Doctor Scott figures out how Niels bonded his DNA to the virus and removes his immunity, causing him to quickly succumb and die very painfully.
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The Last Ship / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Last Ship / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Towards the end of Season 2, the storyline veers towards how the main characters can help rebuild society after the Red Flu Pandemic passes. As of Season 3: The United States, under the leadership of President Michener, pulls away from the coasts and focuses on reestablishing itself in the Midwest, due to its farmland and river system, with a new capital being set up in St. Louis. There is ongoing debate as to whether or not the previous state boundaries can be maintained or if entirely new regions should be created. Steps are being taken to make sure that the economy has a firm base. Banks are trying to maintain the US Dollar as a viable currency and making sure that people have access to their accounts and property titles continue to be honored. Television and radio broadcasts have been restored, allowing the central government to reach out to its citizens. The free press is functioning and lively. Demand and production are not yet in sync so the government begins issuing ration books to make sure that everyone has guaranteed access to basic necessities with Michener stressing that communities with surpluses should share what they can with communities with shortfalls. Certain factions are chafing at this new normal, believing that it is un-American and that people should be able to take however much they please if they can afford it. The U.S. begins rebuilding its military and returns to deploying units overseas to maintain American influence in world affairs. There's no sign of Congress, with the U.S. instead being split up into several regions, each with an appointed leader who reports directly to the President. Congressional elections are being scheduled and, in the meantime, there is a single senator who survived the pandemic and acts as the Legislative Branch. The regional leadership ultimately stages a coup against the weak federal government, dividing the country up into their own fiefdoms. In Season 4, various world governments are stated to have completely collapsed while some countries' populations were seemingly wiped out due to the Red Flu. In the Mediterranean, at least, independent city states and tribalism have risen up to fill the void. Egypt and Turkey are also discussed as still being significant regional players, albeit with the implication that they're barely hanging on. The UK managed to survive both the Plague and the ensuing Immune Wars and apparently still maintains a monarchy. It is severely weakened however doesn't have the resources to maintain its military assets. An MI-6 officer joins the Nathan James crew in Season 4. In Season 5, it's said that Mexico and Cuba went to war because of the Red Famine. It's also implied Cuba's communist government fell and was replaced by a new democratic one.
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The Last Ship / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
The Last Ship / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Helmets are rarely ever worn by the protagonists when they go ashore to fight the bad guys. Although characters are shown donning anti-flash gear they never bring the hoods up to cover their faces.
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The Last Ship / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
The Last Ship / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: The Royal Navy warrant officer aboard the HMS Achilles gives Commander Mike Slattery a run for his money in hand-to-hand combat. Pretty much all the senior officers and non-commissioned officers aboard the Nathan James have the combat proficiency of a Navy SEAL.
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The Last Ship / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
The Last Ship / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Tex, intentionally infected with the virus to test a cure, tells Dr. Scott that she makes him want to love again while delirious with fever.
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The Last Ship / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
The Last Ship / int_37cb353b	comment	The first virus casualty from the ship is Frankie Benz, a black officer who trips, loses his mask, and gets exposed to the virus. Knowing that he's already screwed and will only be a danger to others, he shoots himself.
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The Last Ship / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
The Last Ship / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: Ruskov attempts this in "Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar". Unfortunately for him, Chandler refuses to break.
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The Last Ship / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
The Last Ship / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Season 4 sees the ship's SH-60 Seahawk helicopter replaced with a UH-1 Huey. The pilot's bitching about it reveals the justification: while not as good for operating from a destroyer (Hueys can be configured for antisubmarine warfare, but this one isn't, and the US Navy has never used it for ASW; the SH-60 is better suited to that role anyway), the Huey is more reliable and easier to fix, which is why the Navy, Air Force, and Army still keep some of them around despite having officially replaced them decades agonote The Marines still use the Huey as a front-line helicopter, intend to continue using it for the foreseeable future and then some, and recently developed a new and highly-advanced model, the UH-1Y, that outperforms the Blackhawk family in many ways. Hey, if it ain't broke.... Also a bit of a subversion, as the Huey remains in limited service with the Navy and is quite popular on the civilian and export markets, and is still in production sixty years after the prototype first flew.
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The Last Ship / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Last Ship / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Admiral Ruskov, big time. In "Welcome to Gitmo" when it is pointed out to him he has more men and less food, meaning a blockade poses serious risks for him, he promptly shoots one of his officers (implied to be a high ranking aide) in the head. Again in "Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar", when he forcibly exposes another of his senior officers to the virus to test the vaccine. Viewers who speak Russian will have already noted that the officer is Ruskov's brother. Lieutenant Commander Sean Ramsey. Even when HMS Achilles is hit and in the process of sinking, he forces his men to remain in the sub at gunpoint when they try to abandon ship.
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The Last Ship / int_3e086ab9	type	Misplaced Accent
The Last Ship / int_3e086ab9	comment	Misplaced Accent: Niels Sorensen's "Norwegian" accent is unusually egregious, seeming to originate from somewhere east of the Urals by way of Holland.
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The Last Ship / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Last Ship / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: In "Two Sailors Walk into a Bar", Ruskov has been trying to sway Chandler to his cause and become warlords. Chandler will have none of it: In "Unreal City", Amy Granderson tries to get Alisha to convince the crew of the Nathan James to surrender and join forces with her. Alisha's reply is succinct and to the point: In the Season 3 finale, as a captured Allison Shaw is monologuing how her defeat means nothing, because America as a whole as failed anyway, Chandler shuts her up by shooting her mid-sentence.
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The Last Ship / int_429152bd	type	Submarine Pirates
The Last Ship / int_429152bd	comment	Submarine Pirates: The dynamic of the immunes aboard HMS Achilles. Whereas Nathan James functions as any professional naval ship, their opposition act as ragtag pirates who are loud and openly squabble with one another at any given moment. Besides the Rule of Cool, especially when the European accents come into play, it's justified with the crew being multi-national in originnote the only commonality being that they were all part of their former navies, their having been rough and rowdy types even before the plague hit and that there were no former officers amongst their numbernote the closest being the new "captain" Sean Ramsey, who was Achilles' former coxswain - this would establish him as the senior chief petty officer of the sub. There's also his 2nd in Command, who was a Warrant Officer..
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The Last Ship / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
The Last Ship / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: In Season 3, the 48 contiguous states have been reconsolidated into five semi-autonomous territories (Northeast, South, Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest) run from the new capital district around St. Louis. Then the regional leaders decide to officially dissolve the Union, and run their territories as their own nations. However, they have William Beatty assassinated before this takes place, and his Northwest territory is absorbed by Manuel Castillo's Southwest region. In "Resistance," President Oliver and the crew of the Nathan James arrest Castillo and take control, turning the entire west coast into The Remnant of the legitimate US government. This leaves Roberta Price, Albert Wilson, and Randall Croft in control of the South, the Midwest, and the Northeast territories, respectively, with Allison Shaw eying turning St. Louis into an independent city-state. Eventually, Wilson and Croft are also arrested, while Price and Shaw are killed, reuniting the country under Oliver's control. Whatever happened to Hawaii (earlier implied to be under naval control) and Alaska is currently unknown, but they seem to be on their own.
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The Last Ship / int_44dd01be	type	Tagalong Kid
The Last Ship / int_44dd01be	comment	Tagalong Kid: The crew of the Nathan James picks up Bertrice, a Jamaican girl, off of a fishing boat. They realize that she's naturally immune to the virus and her blood becomes a vital component in the experimental vaccine. She also demonstrates that she can stay cool in highly-stressed situations and is willing to sacrifice herself if it means saving the world. In other words, she fits right in with the crew. The crew later picks up Ava, Tophet's daughter. She has much less of role aboard the Nathan James than Bertrice, other than to provide commentary about the failing state of her parents' marriage. Ruskov does mention that Ava made herself as big of a nuisance as possible while a captive aboard the Vyerni.
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The Last Ship / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
The Last Ship / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: One single police officer with a pistol manages to take an entire naval destroyer under his control in the season one finale, by holding the unarmed XO and bridge crew at gunpoint, although the season two premiere reveals that he was actually backed up by considerable firepower.
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The Last Ship / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Last Ship / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: Amy Granderson believes that mass murder in the service of filtering out the "deserving" from the "undeserving" is justified to create a post-Flu ideal society. Dr. Vellek believes that by chemically suppressing aggression in humans, a perfect society can develop.
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The Last Ship / int_46ec76fb	type	Working the Same Case
The Last Ship / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: In Season 4, the James crew and the retired Chandler turn out to be investigating from different directions. Each didn't even know the other side of the "case" existed before they stumbled across each other.
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The Last Ship / int_48e24f	type	Anti-Mutiny
The Last Ship / int_48e24f	comment	Anti-Mutiny: In "Scuttle", the Government Conspiracy has Chandler relieved of command and arrested by the add-ons from the destroyed USS Hayward, with Captain Weylan and XO Cobb assuming power. However, the crew of the Nathan James later retakes the ship from the Hayward sailors after Miller stages a fight with the rival sailors in which he acquires the keys to the small-arms locker and gives them to Slattery. They make sure to unload their weapons beforehand however, as despite the need to sequester the Hayward sailors to stop them interfering with their plans, the Nathan James crew has no desire to harm or kill fellow Navy personnel. Plus, they give rifles to some of Takahaya's pirates, so obviously they don't want to take a chance there.
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The Last Ship / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
The Last Ship / int_4c554daf	comment	President Evil: President Peng of China, who is intent on conquering all of Asia by deploying a chemical weapon that renders those infected with the Red Flu incapable of receiving the cure.
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The Last Ship / int_4d2dd53c	type	Pan and Scan
The Last Ship / int_4d2dd53c	comment	Pan and Scan: The president sends out a message filmed in widescreen, but everyone is seen watching it on their cellphones held in the vertical position.
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The Last Ship / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Last Ship / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "The virus doesn't discriminate. That unfortunate task falls to me."
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The Last Ship / int_4e8b83a	type	That's an Order!
The Last Ship / int_4e8b83a	comment	That's an Order!: This is a regular feature. Not surprising, since it is a military show.
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The Last Ship / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Last Ship / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: After being deprogrammed, President Michener becomes this. Kara has long complained about her mother being a long-time alcoholic and bad mom. When she visits her home town, she's happy to find that the plague caused her mother to get clean and sober and she's now a dedicated worker at a local hospital. She apologizes to Kara on her failures as a mother and is intent on making up for her selfish past by helping others.
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The Last Ship / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Last Ship / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The nature of the Red Flu underwent painfully obvious changes throughout the series (with the introduction of the Immunes), making the first two episodes a bit strange in hindsight: The crew came across both a large cruise ship (with presumably 1000-3000 people onboard) and Guantanamo Bay (with around 9-10,000 personnel stationed there, not counting contractors) and zero indication of any survivors among those exposed to the virus. Given the later estimate of 1-5% of the population being naturally immune, you'd expect 10-150 uninfected survivors on the cruise ship and around 100-500 at Gitmo. The cruise ship can be handwaved as those survivors having abandoned ship and/or simply being missed (the teams from the Nathan James didn't exactly do a door-to-door sweep of the ship); Gitmo is a lot harder to justify since the apparent death of everyone else on the base is given as part of the reason for letting the detainees loose, while if they'd been massacring the other survivors that would certainly have borne mentioning (and them getting the upper hand on a few hundred Marines, etc. would be much harder than them running around killing a handful of surviving guards). Granted, the ship stumbling across hundreds naturally immune survivors in episode one or two would have at least altered the tenor of the show (and moved a number of plot elements forward by an episode or two) but it's still a bit jarring considering that in season two it's stated that there are tens of thousands of such survivors forming Immune groups in Florida.
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The Last Ship / int_5036c7d4	type	Time-Passage Beard
The Last Ship / int_5036c7d4	comment	Time-Passage Beard: In Season 4, Chandler, Green, Burk, and Miller all sport bushy beards to try and disguise their faces. The beards also serve to show how much time passed between the Season 3 finale and Season 4 premiere.
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The Last Ship / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
The Last Ship / int_505a1021	comment	The Farmer and the Viper: In "Welcome to Gitmo", Tex admits he and some other guards let Al-Qaeda prisoners out of their cells, figuring that as the world was ending and nations were collapsing there was no reason to keep them imprisoned. The terrorists immediately turn on the guards.
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The Last Ship / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Last Ship / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: While investigating Niels's death, Slattery tells Rachel that the Navy has contingencies for every conceivable emergency and rattles off several procedures and the situations they address.
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The Last Ship / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
The Last Ship / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: It's disturbingly alluded that the European Immunes have taken over their continent and formed this in the Red Plague's wake. Naturally, they now aim to do the same in America. However, this is seemingly Put on a Bus in season 3, which focuses on the reconstruction of the US and conflict in Asia instead of Europe. Season 4 reveals that the Immune cults in Europe started a number of wars to try and gain the ascendant, laying waste to what was left of functioning societies there (except the UK, which managed to keep a shaky national government in place). The post-plague Chinese government is trying to establish its own empire in Asia, going so far as to using biological warfare to make the Red Flu cure ineffective to cause the deaths of millions of other Asian races. They also attempt to erase the existence of a Japan, their history, and culture in "Legacy", in which Peng leads a team of soldiers to the Japanese National Archives in Tokyo to destroy its contents For the Evulz.
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The Last Ship / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Last Ship / int_56515a39	comment	Amy Granderson, Acting US Secretary of Defense, is revealed to hold this view. She's taken control of Baltimore with help from the Maryland State Police, and excludes everyone but those whom she deems useful from coming into her safe zone. The rest are either left to die or given a "medicine" which actively kills them. The bodies are used as fuel to power the city. She explains to Dr. Scott that in the Black Death, the intellectual elite of Europe died along with the rest, which Granderson claims extended the Dark Ages over a century (historians would actually say the opposite, that the Plague helped end them, but never mind) and so in her mind she's actually saving civilization itself by taking in people like them now while using the rest for their survival.
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The Last Ship / int_5c3c800f	type	The Immune
The Last Ship / int_5c3c800f	comment	The Immune: Most of humanity dies out as a result of a Synthetic Plague, with the eponymous ship going on a mission to develop a cure. In the second season it becomes apparent that a lot more people have a natural immunity than previously thought (around 5% of the population). They start a cult that portrays them as the "chosen people" and set out to kill all non-immunes, led by two immune British brothers who were the only survivors of the nuclear submarine they both served in.
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The Last Ship / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
The Last Ship / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: "Warlord" Thorwald is set up as a villain, complete with creepy music, a raggedy group of supporters, and is given an introduction where he guns down an infected woman and appears to be consolidating his territory. It turns out that the apparent villain is actually a resistance fighter and former Baltimore Police detective who opposes Amy Granderson's plan to save only those those she considers worthy of the new world and is trying to set up a refuge for those who'd be cast out of Baltimore to die from the Red Flu.
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The Last Ship / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Last Ship / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Season 5 takes place three years after Season 4.
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The Last Ship / int_608b84cc	type	25th Amendment
The Last Ship / int_608b84cc	comment	25th Amendment: At the start of the series, the Speaker of the House is in charge of what remains of the American government since the President had died from the disease two months before and the Vice President succumbed a week later. It's soon clear that the Speaker is dead, too. In season two, we learn that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development survived the virus. As the twelfth in the line of succession, he is thus legally the President of the United States. Unfortunately, it turns out he has fallen in with the Immune cult. In season three, after President Michener is found dead of apparent suicide (later revealed to be assassination), Vice President Howard Oliver (who was previously the Mayor of St. Louis) is sworn in as President on his way back from a diplomatic visit to Panama.
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The Last Ship / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
The Last Ship / int_60ea2a89	comment	Starter Villain: Admiral Ruskov turned out to be this. Ruskov is merely homicidally insane. Amy Granderson on the other hand is homicidal, but quite sane...
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The Last Ship / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Last Ship / int_617f0563	comment	Takehaya delivered the cure to his people, but unbeknownst to him Peng had already exposed them to chemicals that blocked the cure from working. His guilt upon learning the truth becomes the catalyst for his Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Last Ship / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Last Ship / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: The Russians have Tophet's family, whom they would release if he gets them the vaccine. They are rescued in "Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar".
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The Last Ship / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Last Ship / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Season 1, episode 4 "We'll Get There". The ship is becalmed with engine and generator trouble, leading to an episode that involves mostly characters staying in one place and looking tired and sweaty, no complicated stunts, minimal CGI and almost entirely takes place on the ship with a short beach scene at the end. Perhaps even more so in episode 6 "Lockdown", which takes place entirely on the ship with the crew worrying about what they are doing, with no CGI, special effects or other locations at all. Season 2 episode 8 "Safe Zone" also takes place entirely on the ship, and focuses primarily on Chandler attempting to reverse the brainwashing of Jeffery Michener, the de facto President of the United States, after he is rescued from the Immunes. Much of the episode is simply Chandler delivering extended monologues.
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The Last Ship / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Last Ship / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Rather than give up the location of the primordial strain Tophet rips the dressing off of his gunshot wound and pushes away all attempts to help him and bleeds to death.
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The Last Ship / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Last Ship / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: As testing for the vaccine takes a turn for the worst, Chandler and Slattery can barely hold back their tears as they watch helplessly from outside the lab. Chandler once again can barely keep himself together when Dr. Scott reveals that not only do they have a vaccine, they also have a treatment for the infected. One or two leak out as they embrace. Danny's eyes threaten to spill over because there's a chance Kara and their unborn child could die from the vaccine. Lt. Carlton Burke is seen tearing up after Lt. Ravit Bivas is killed after the oil rig is attacked. Master Chief Russell Jeter is unable to hold back tears when he is reunited with his inlaws (his only remaining family) in St. Louis in the season 2 finale. Takehaya is visibly shaken up when he sees Peng's men destroying artifacts of the Japanese culture. But what a payback he later scores...
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The Last Ship / int_681c1b78	type	All Asians Know Martial Arts
The Last Ship / int_681c1b78	comment	All Asians Know Martial Arts: The pirates, PLA soldiers, and MSS agents the ship fights all seem to know advanced kung fu. Justified in that the Chinese PLA and MSS do train their personnel in hand-to-hand combat, and pirates being...well, pirates, it makes sense that the successful ones would know how to fight.
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The Last Ship / int_6ac5926f	type	Insane Admiral
The Last Ship / int_6ac5926f	comment	Insane Admiral: Ruskov seems to fit the bill rather nicely. He kills one of his own officers in front of Chandler just to make a point, nukes a French naval base to keep the Nathan James from resupplying, and doesn't seem to care that damaging or destroying the Nathan James will also jeopardize the very research he's trying to obtain. If he'd just let his own scientist on board share information with the Nathan James team and stop antagonizing Chandler, Ruskov would get a lot closer to his actual stated goal. Sean Ramsey maybe even more so. As someone who is naturally immune to the Red Flu, he becomes convinced that he and other surviving 'Immunes' are the chosen master race destined to control the world. Because of this, he gets his people to intentionally infect and kill those who are not immune, and will stop at nothing to try and destroy the cure that Nathan James is trying to spread.
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The Last Ship / int_6c0e5342	type	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
The Last Ship / int_6c0e5342	comment	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: El Toro takes the crew of the Nathan James prisoner and promptly feeds them. Admiral Ruskov later does the same on the Russian battlecruiser. The pirates in Season 3 feed the crew well, but in the form of filet mignon and apricots. It is revealed that they are fed foods rich in iron so they can be utilized as a blood bank for the pirates.
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The Last Ship / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
The Last Ship / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: In a rare sympathetic example, a sole survivor is rescued from Guantanamo and joins the main cast.
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The Last Ship / int_6cf4a648	type	Non-Uniform Uniform
The Last Ship / int_6cf4a648	comment	Non-Uniform Uniform: Danny wears a tactical uniform in desert camouflage rather than a Naval Working Uniform when he's aboard Nathan James. Bacon and the rest of the galley staff also stand out because they wear red polo shirts emblazoned with the ship's crest. Commander Garnett and the Engineering division also wear coveralls instead of NWUs.
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The Last Ship / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Last Ship / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Chinese President Peng is killed with two episodes left in Season 3, leaving the American regional leaders (particularly Roberta Price) as the sole villains.
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The Last Ship / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Last Ship / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Many problems could be avoided by following common military procedure meant to deal with just these problems. Sailors are occasionally seen saluting without a cover (hat/cap), which goes against U.S. Navy protocol. Chandler later makes a big show out of putting on a Nathan James ballcap before giving a salute as if the production team wanted to tell the audience that they heard all the nitpicking. The military choppers the Russians have in the first episode are American with Russian markings. A later episode mentions that they were salvaged from an abandoned NATO installation. Speaking about choppers, the one shown on the RFS Vyerni is a Mi-24 "Hind-D". Though obviously Russian, the Hind-D is a Russian Air Force gunship designed for exclusively for land warfare. In reality, the RFS Vyerni would have been carrying Ka-27 "Helix" choppers and would have deployed a "Helix-D" search-and-rescue type to fish Chandler and Tex out of the water. Also, how did they helicopters get so close to the ship? In real-life, they'd have been detected on radar and shot down with missiles long before they got anywhere near the ship. In the pilot, officers, chiefs, and enlisted are shown eating together in the mess. In reality, officers should be in the Wardroom, chiefs in the Chief's Mess (where even the captain needs permission to enter), with only the enlisted in the mess. Chandler wants Maya to be awarded the Navy Cross, but it can only be awarded for actions in the face of the enemy. Since she went above and beyond the call of duty in a non-combat situation and not on a joint duty assignment, the highest award she could receive would be the Navy version of the Distinguished Service Medal. This could be considered Justified if one considers the virus to be the "enemy", in which case Maya volunteered to help combat it, thereby establishing the "actions in the face of" part. She could also be perhaps awarded the "Navy and Marine Corps Medal", awarded for non-combat bravery. Wolf is introduced as a Senior Chief Petty Officer. Such a rank doesn't exist in the Royal Australian Navy. He'd be a Warrant Officer, and referred to as such, if he was supposed to be senior to a Chief Petty Officer. Season 3 has the ship's helicopter, which is referred to as a Romeo; however, it lacks the distinctive nose sensor turret of the MH-60R as well as the belly-mounted surface search radar, and more closely resembles an MH-60S Knighthawk. note There's also the problem that a Romeo can only carry 4 passengers since the cabin is occupied by an ASW station and it carries a dipping sonar and the radar; a Sierra, which is stripped to the bare essentials for max cargo lift, has a full cabin and plenty of spare thrust for 11 passengers.
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The Last Ship / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Last Ship / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: In "El Toro", Chandler has evidently made his mind up ahead of time that El Toro is a bad guy, and seems to be purposefully being difficult with him and continues to be so even after El Toro has actually been more helpful than you would expect him to be. Even when asked about his purpose in being there (to get monkeys as research specimens) Chandler is evasive about it as if the monkeys are some sort of secret.
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The Last Ship / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
The Last Ship / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: The Russian ship can have a boat pull up and park right alongside it and sit there completely unnoticed while on high alert. Their watch stations leave a lot to be desired as well, given that four escaped prisoners and their rescue party can move about the ship almost at will, only being challenged as they're being extracted. If the ship was grossly undermanned, which wouldn't be out of the ordinary given the Red Plague's effects on Russia and Ruskov's habit of killing his subordinates on a whim, then the relative lack of personnel is more realistic. In season 5, SOUTHCOM, the headquarters of the U.S. war against Gran Colombia, is only guarded by a couple of civilian security guards who are easily dispatched by the Gran Colombian assassin squad. This is especially egregious considering the U.S. President was there at the time but only had two or three Secret Service agents with him. Also the only people available to respond to the attack is a local police SWAT team, who blunder into a booby-trap, killing them all.
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The Last Ship / int_741e8e7	type	The Cast Showoff
The Last Ship / int_741e8e7	comment	The Cast Show Off: Lt. Alisha Granderson, played by Christina Elmore, sings (quite well) at the end of "We'll Get There."
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The Last Ship / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Last Ship / int_754df088	comment	Bertrise, whose presence brought about major developments throughout Season 1 suddenly disappears in Season 2 despite the fact that the Season 2 premiere picks up directly after the Season 1 finale. She pops back up 4 episodes later with no explanation, though it's implied she's become Doctor Scott's assistant. She is Put on a Bus in Season 3, presumably having left the ship and reentered civilian society.
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The Last Ship / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Last Ship / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Aside from the Red Flu outbreaks, the good guys need to worry about roving pirates and mercenaries seeking to plunder ships and anyone and anything worth of value. In Season 4, it's revealed that the Red Flu made the leap from humans to plants and is rapidly spreading across many different crop species causing a lethal worldwide famine.
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The Last Ship / int_79c2062e	type	Inappropriately Close Comrades
The Last Ship / int_79c2062e	comment	Inappropriately Close Comrades: Danny Green and Kara Foster play out this trope well, even endangering a mission because of their feelings. Averted: Because Dr.Scott is a civilian and a triangle arises between her, Tex, and the Captain.
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The Last Ship / int_7a2b8057	type	Government-Exploited Crisis
The Last Ship / int_7a2b8057	comment	Government-Exploited Crisis: With the Red Flu having devastated the entire planet, Amy Granderson, one of the highest-ranking surviving officials in the US government, tries to set up a eugenic state in Baltimore, in which those deemed useful to her purposes get an actual cure for the Red Flu while everyone else gets a fake cure that kills them.
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The Last Ship / int_7b20b8d2	type	Alternative Foreign Theme Song
The Last Ship / int_7b20b8d2	comment	Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The ending theme for the Japanese release of the show is "Pandemic Sudden Death" by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN.
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The Last Ship / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
The Last Ship / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: The entire US Secret Service in season 3. They declare their loyalty to traitorous Chief of Staff Allison Shaw, and help her and the regional leaders to assassinate President Michener, Senator Beatty and Secretary Rivera. They then act as her personal enforcers, keeping new President Howard Oliver a prisoner in his office and threatening to kill his family if he steps out of line.
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The Last Ship / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Last Ship / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: In "Dead Reckoning", Captain Chandler calls Tophet out for aiding the Russians instead of asking the Nathan James for help, and endangering the world and getting his family involved (and possibly dead). Tophet asked what else he was supposed to do, and asked what Chandler would have done if it was his own family. Chandler doesn't answer, and leaves so he can quietly break down into tears.
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The Last Ship / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The Last Ship / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Probably the most realistic example heard in movies or on television, with suppressors reducing noise down to a more subdued crack rather than the better known thwip. They're still quieter than real-life suppressors, though.
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The Last Ship / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Last Ship / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Chandler gives one to Admiral Ruskov for shooting one of his own men, and mentions how he used to be a great man before the pandemic.
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The Last Ship / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Last Ship / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Niels Sorensen, the doctor on the Russian ship. By injecting himself with a modified version of the killer virus, he rendered himself immune and a carrier for a weaponized version of the disease, a disease that didn't affect humans until he screwed with it.
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The Last Ship / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Last Ship / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Amy Granderson becomes this to her own daughter.
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The Last Ship / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
The Last Ship / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Kara brings photos of her mother and her dog, Chief Engineer Garnett has a photo of her daughter, and Tex brings a locket containing the photo of an unknown woman (later revealed to be his daughter) into the vaccine trials. These examples are averted because they survive. It's Maya, who's seen reading old e-mails from her boyfriend, who dies quietly while everyone's focused on the delirious Master Chief Jeter.
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The Last Ship / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
The Last Ship / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: Amy Granderson, Acting US Secretary of Defense, is revealed to hold this view. She's taken control of Baltimore with help from the Maryland State Police, and excludes everyone but those whom she deems useful from coming into her safe zone. The rest are either left to die or given a "medicine" which actively kills them. The bodies are used as fuel to power the city. She explains to Dr. Scott that in the Black Death, the intellectual elite of Europe died along with the rest, which Granderson claims extended the Dark Ages over a century (historians would actually say the opposite, that the Plague helped end them, but never mind) and so in her mind she's actually saving civilization itself by taking in people like them now while using the rest for their survival. Sean Ramsey's movement also invokes this idea, claiming those immune to the virus like him have been "chosen", so his aim is to breed a master race immune to everything, while the rest die off. However, he's not satisfied with the rest just dying off on their own, but tries to destroy the cure and actively kill all those people who haven't yet been infected, thus dipping into Nazi-like behavior.
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The Last Ship / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Last Ship / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Bertrise, whose presence brought about major developments throughout Season 1 suddenly disappears in Season 2 despite the fact that the Season 2 premiere picks up directly after the Season 1 finale. She pops back up 4 episodes later with no explanation, though it's implied she's become Doctor Scott's assistant. She is Put on a Bus in Season 3, presumably having left the ship and reentered civilian society. Admiral Halsey, the Naval Mountain Warfare Unit's dog, is supposed to be practically attached to Danny's hip but the pooch comes and goes as the plot demands with no explanation as to who's taking care of him when Danny's otherwise engaged. All of Europe is said to have been taken over by the Immunes. After their high command attempts to conquer America and is wiped out in Season 2, no mention is made of the status of the continent in Season 3. Season 4 is set mostly in Greece, where it's revealed that Europe has turned into small city states with only the United Kingdom government surviving in continuity.
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The Last Ship / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Last Ship / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Lt. Granderson is filled with shame over her mother's actions. So much so that she would rather die of her wounds than return to Nathan James to seek treatment out of fear of her shipmates' potential reactions. She returns to find that nobody holds it against her.
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The Last Ship / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Last Ship / int_87bb6874	comment	Also counts as a Villain with Good Publicity. Amy Granderson appears to be the last hope for civilized society, the continuation of the United States, and a voice of reason in the chaos of the Red Flu. Then it turns out that her plan for society's survival puts the bloodiness of some dictatorships to shame and that the 'warlords' opposing her are really former cops trying to protect people from her death factory.
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The Last Ship / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Last Ship / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ramsay's crew are a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits from various now-defunct European militaries.
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The Last Ship / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
The Last Ship / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: The standard stratagem for the crew of HMS Achilles. First they attack Nathan James with four Spearfish torpedoes (thereby invoking No Kill like Overkill as well) and then they launch a Tomahawk missile attack (twenty-six missiles in all) at the various labs the cure was being manufactured at. The latter is justified, however, due to there being multiple labs as well as to overcome Nathan James' Aegis system.
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The Last Ship / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
The Last Ship / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: The show depicts blood pressure readings being monitored by the rise and fall of the needle on a cuff's gauge. Blood pressure is actually measured by pumping up a cuff and releasing the pressure while listening through a stethoscope for when the turbulent blood flow starts and stops, recording at which pressure each happens. The only way you'd see the numbers tick up and down is if you're monitoring blood pressure digitally with a machine that takes measurements at set intervals.note The needle does jump up every time the heart beats, however. The only way blood pressure can be monitored in real-time is with an arterial monitoring line. The show's vaccine test subjects are injected and then immediately exposed to the virus afterwards. In real life, a vaccine takes several days to take effect as the the body's immune system learns to deal with the dead/weakened virus.
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The Last Ship / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Last Ship / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "No Place Like Home." Nathan James does return home, only to find that the government and society have completely collapsed, the streets are filled with dead and infected people, and the only law and order comes from brutal militias. Chandler finds his family, but he's too late to save his wife. And the only government figure to be found is formulating a plan to rebuild society in her image while committing mass murder in order to achieve it. "Sea Change" reveals that President Peng purposely sabotaged the cure in order to "clear the field" for a takeover of Asia. "Paradise" reveals that Chief of Staff Shaw has been conspiring to undermine Michener and his successor to seize power for herself and the regional bosses. "Scuttle." Kara Green discovers the regional leaders were planning to carve up the United States among themselves, leaving a rump central government around St. Louis proper. Additionally, they are planning mass incarcerations (or worse) of people who don't fall in line with their manipulation of the now-decontrolled food distribution network. "Don't Look Back." Alison Shaw assassinates Price after cleverly drawing her to St. Louis to arm a drone first. She then kidnaps Chandler's children. Chandler and Tex, meanwhile, nearly successsfully take out her minions on the plane, except Tex has been gutshot and is bleeding out badly. Chandler's Heroic BSoD, combined with Shaw's nasty "The Reason You Suck" Speech, causes him to shoot her out of hand. He decides to leave the Navy.
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The Last Ship / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Last Ship / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: El Toro. Sending an innocent young woman to certain death (and raping others) won't gain you a lot of sympathy. Niels Sorenson gets shot while being used as a human shield. Absolutely nobody is very concerned about that. Niels gets this again in "Uneasy Lies the Head", dying painfully and afraid, as Doctor Scott reverses his immunity to the virus. The crew is so happy that this happens that they shower Miller and O'Conner with gifts for their supposed involvement.
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The Last Ship / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
The Last Ship / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Season one ends with The Nathan James captured by rogue police officers working for the government of Baltimore. Season two ends with Rachel being shot by a surviving member of the Immunes.
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The Last Ship / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Last Ship / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: It's Contagion (2011) on a warship. Alternately, it's Crusade on present day Earth.
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The Last Ship / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Last Ship / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Rachel Scott kills Niels by unlinking his DNA from the virus he carries within him.
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The Last Ship / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Last Ship / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Society is already almost completely broken down, and if a cure for the virus isn't found soon, it'll mean human extinction.
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The Last Ship / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Last Ship / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Season 2 premiere shows a family being expelled from Avocet because none of the family members serve a purpose within Mrs. Granderson's planned society. In Season 3, Secretary Rivera and President Oliver are pushed out of the way to make room for the coup by the regional leaders. Shaw having Price killed at the end of Season 3.
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The Last Ship / int_94b78deb	type	Every Helicopter Is a Huey
The Last Ship / int_94b78deb	comment	Every Helicopter Is a Huey: Lampshaded in the third season, where a Huey pilot bemoans having to fly an older helicopter as opposed to the more modern Seahawk.
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The Last Ship / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Last Ship / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: In the Season 2 premiere, Tophet's given the option of telling the police where the primordial strain is or watch his wife get shot. He decides to do neither.
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The Last Ship / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Last Ship / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: In "Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar", Admiral Ruskov begins to suffer this a bit. Understandable, given that all his prisoners are escaping and his ship's blowing up.
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The Last Ship / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Last Ship / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Also counts as a Villain with Good Publicity. Amy Granderson appears to be the last hope for civilized society, the continuation of the United States, and a voice of reason in the chaos of the Red Flu. Then it turns out that her plan for society's survival puts the bloodiness of some dictatorships to shame and that the 'warlords' opposing her are really former cops trying to protect people from her death factory. The immune "Captain" of Achilles, Sean Ramsey, helping an American cult leader cement his control over the naturally immune population. He works a hotel lobby crowd with warmth and humor, appearing for all the world to be their savior.
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The Last Ship / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
The Last Ship / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: [[Inverted]] completely in "Legacy". Before boarding Chinese warship PLANS Henan, both Weylan and Slattery note it's design is essentially a ripoff of the American Arleigh Burke classnote The design is not an exact copy, as the ships have noticeably different silhouettes (if you can see them in daylight, that is), but their component systems are directly copied from US/Western counterparts—something the Red Chinese are notorious for. This proves useful, as the missile launch controls are almost identical to those on Nathan James. This enables Slattery to target and launch ordinance from the Henan to destroy a second Chinese ship without needing to understand the markings, acknowledging it is "the same in every language".
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The Last Ship / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
The Last Ship / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: More like "Action Series, Quiet Drama Episodes": "We'll Get There," "Lockdown," and "Trials".
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The Last Ship / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Last Ship / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Admiral Ruskov, the Starter Villain, is this for most of the first season. Amy Granderson, established at the end of the first season, becomes a Disc-One Final Boss early in the second season, and gives way to a nascent quasi-fascist movement of naturally immune survivors led by Sean Ramsey. In the third season, the role falls to President Peng of China, whose plans for control of Asia put him at odds with the Nathan James crew (and by extension, the entire USA). But then "Paradise" reveals that he seems to be working with Allison Shaw, who covertly aids his goals in exchange for fulfilling their own of taking control of the US. It is revealed through the fourth season that Omar, the Disc-One Final Boss, is actually working with the true enemy, Dr. Vellek, an unscrupulous genius who marries a cure for the Red Rust with a mental anaesthetic that causes docility in humans.
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The Last Ship / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Last Ship / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: The first virus casualty from the ship is Frankie Benz, a black officer who trips, loses his mask, and gets exposed to the virus. Knowing that he's already screwed and will only be a danger to others, he shoots himself. During the vaccine trials, the first casualty is a female black sailor named Maya, who slips quietly away while Scott and Tophet try to stabilize the delirious and convulsing CMC Jeter. Stone-faced, Chandler tells Slattery to make sure she receives the Navy Cross.
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The Last Ship / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Last Ship / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Or better to die on your own terms than of sickness. Also invoked in the fight between Peng Wu and Takehaya; Takehaya manages to run a sword through the Chinese President, upon which Peng (as a final parting shot) decides to purposely accelerate his blood-loss by using the sword to open a blood vessel.
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The Last Ship / int_99dd103c	type	Safe Zone Hope Spot
The Last Ship / int_99dd103c	comment	Safe Zone Hope Spot: As season 2 goes on, much is made of New Orleans, which has a large amount of infrastructure set up to provide for a good After the End center of operations (solar power generators, sea walls to prevent further flooding, etc.), as well as a flotilla of hundreds of boats and ships carrying about 10,000 civilians. As soon as Nathan James arrives, the entire flotilla is destroyed by Achilles. What's worse, the footage of this is cut together with footage of Nathan James deploying countermeasures to a torpedo launch to make it look like they were the ones who destroyed it.
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The Last Ship / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Last Ship / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Danny burns all of Niels' teddy bear virus spreaders.
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The Last Ship / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Last Ship / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The third season finale began with Chandler being rejected by two civilians who were traumatized by their experiences with rogue military personnel before looking around a roomful of people, all desperate and scared. Later, he notes that every time he and his crew fix the country, it falls apart again. The look on his when being reassured is indicative of what happens at the end of the episode, when he quits. In 4x03, an old woman stabs Omar when he learns she's been hiding the seeds, to little effect. Toward the climax of that episode, Lucia stabs Slattery, to much greater effect.
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The Last Ship / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
The Last Ship / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: Rogue Maryland State Police Special Tactical Assault Team Element (STATE) operators, operating under the orders of Amy Granderson. They sometimes get killed off or put up a fight against Nathan James sailors. The main antagonists of season 2 are former members of the Royal Navy, who have a nuclear submarine (HMS Achilles) and former soldiers from various European nations backing them up. The Chinese MSS operatives in season 3. Their leader even gives Wolf a run for his money in hand to hand combat. It can be argued that the US Secret Service also becomes this is season 3, when they decide to betray the President and declare their loyalty to Allison Shaw and the regional leaders.
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The Last Ship / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Last Ship / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: A breakthrough in tracking down Wu Ming, a smuggler working with the Chinese government, comes from the revelation that he is absolutely devoted to his mother and would never go too far from her.
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The Last Ship / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Last Ship / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Chandler always placed defeating Achilles high on his list of priorities. The deaths of Chung and Bivas set him off on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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The Last Ship / int_a2fea27d	type	The Chosen Many
The Last Ship / int_a2fea27d	comment	The Chosen Many: Sorenson comes across a group of people who believe their natural immunity to the Red Plague is a sign of their "chosenness" and are actively determined to prevent the cure/vaccine from being made and distributed.
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The Last Ship / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
The Last Ship / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: In the pilot, one would assume in reality the captain would be in at least partially on what the scientists were doing or that the mainland would break the silence and step in when the world is really starting to go to hell. However sensible procedures don't make for good drama.
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The Last Ship / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Last Ship / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Tex hangs around with the crew during season one, is involved in most major missions, but his name is unknown until the season two finale. It's Ken. Lieutenant Mejia, the ship's navigation officer, is exclusively referred to as "Gator" (short for "navigator") by his fellow officers.
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The Last Ship / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
The Last Ship / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The Russian Renegades can't seem to hit the broad side of a barn. In the first episode, several Russian attack helicopters turn out to be no match for a handful of lightly armed guys on snowmobiles. It's also odd the helicopters don't stop and hover - allowing them to take better aim - when their crew is firing on unarmed scientists. The latter is justified when it's revealed that one of the scientists, Quincy Tophet, is a Russian spy. Averted in "No Place Like Home." The Maryland State Police are pretty accurate shots. Justified since police, unlike the military, have to make sure the first shot counts and can't usually rely upon suppressive firenote In theory, at least. In practice, many police departments exhibit marksmanship ranging from abysmal to atrocious, depending on training budgets, qualification standards, and how diligent individual officers are in practicing with their weapons. The NYPD, for example, is notorious among law enforcement for piss-poor accuracy (and accidentally shooting bystanders) due to a low (and poorly-enforced) standard, underfunded training program without enough range space to provide 30,000 cops with sufficient practice, and a legal environment that makes it difficult for officers to even find a civilian range to practice on their own. The Vyernis sailors improve on their marksmanship in "Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar", with fairly effective suppression fire and fatally wounding a member of the rescue team.
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The Last Ship / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
The Last Ship / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: The Chinese engineered a chemical that renders the cure ineffective, which they use to wipe out the vast majority of surviving Japanese population. Later, they sack the Japanese national archives, smashing and burning many irreplaceable cultural artifacts. Though never explicitly stated, it's safe to say that Japan's remaining population is less than a million. They also deploy it in Vietnam, though it will probably be somewhat less devastating with Nathan James having already distributed the cure a week or two earlier. They attempt to do the same to South Korea before Nathan James sinks the destroyer carrying the anti-cure.
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The Last Ship / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Last Ship / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Chandler gives one at the end of the pilot. And then again in "Lockdown", along with Dr. Scott. Commander Slattery tries to give one in "Two Sailors walk into a Bar." It's a pretty crap speech, but it gets the job done, as the crew knows that Slattery is better with deeds than words.
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The Last Ship / int_aaff69d0	type	Unexpected Successor
The Last Ship / int_aaff69d0	comment	Unexpected Successor: Jeffrey Michener, the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Despite being 12th in line of succession, he ascends to the role of President in season 2, having survived due to natural immunity.
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The Last Ship / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
The Last Ship / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: Many characters have died over the course of the show. Tellingly, the "Former Characters" section of this show's character sheet is longer than the other sections combined.
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The Last Ship / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
The Last Ship / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: The NMWU sailor whose mask falls off on the ship.
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The Last Ship / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
The Last Ship / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: One detonates near Nathan James as she approaches France, later revealed to have been a nuclear missile deliberately fired by Ruskov to prevent the ship from refueling at a French naval base. A news report says that China nuked one of their own heavily infected cities.
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The Last Ship / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Last Ship / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Master Chief Jeter's throwaway lines about being able to approximately determine latitude and longitude from stellar navigation and the position of local noon become significant when he and Slattery cleverly hide the numbers when they alter their military serial numbers on Takehaya's video.
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The Last Ship / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Last Ship / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The end of episode 7, "SOS". Chandler is hoisted up by a helicopter rescuing him... which turns out to be staffed with Russians. The season one finale. Nathan James makes contact with a remnant of the U.S. government operating out of the city of Baltimore which has laboratory facilities capable of mass producing the cure for the virus. Unfortunately, this remnant intends only for the 'right' people to survive and is actively killing off anyone who doesn't meet its criteria. The surviving Maryland State Police (or elements thereof) are working with this rump government and manage to seize control of the Nathan James while Chandler and Jeter are separated from the rest of the crew. Chandler finds his family amid a killing field and saves his father and children, although he is too late to save his wife. And then he discovers what the remnant government is really up to... In season two Chandler learns that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development survived and is one of the Immune. As he is a legitimate successor to the Presidency, this means that the President of the United States is either a puppet or a willing participant in the plan to eliminate the cure and all those who are not Immune.
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The Last Ship / int_ad331757	type	Emergency Authority
The Last Ship / int_ad331757	comment	Emergency Authority: Alisha Granderson's mother, who was previously an unelected advisor, ends up as the highest-ranking official in the US government after the Red Flu breaks out. Naturally, the power quickly goes to her head. In season 2 it is revealed that a member of the presidential cabinet, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jeffery Michener, is now the de facto President, despite being 12th in line of succession. He was, however, indisposed and out of contact for some time. In "Legacy", Allison Shaw and the regional leaders claim to the public their plan to divide the United States into self governing regions will only be a temporary measure until the regions can become strong enough to reunite under a central government. Slattery immediately acknowledges that will never happen, and it's just a cover to make the public more accepting of their decision.
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The Last Ship / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Last Ship / int_adfd3165	comment	The post-plague Chinese government is trying to establish its own empire in Asia, going so far as to using biological warfare to make the Red Flu cure ineffective to cause the deaths of millions of other Asian races. They also attempt to erase the existence of a Japan, their history, and culture in "Legacy", in which Peng leads a team of soldiers to the Japanese National Archives in Tokyo to destroy its contents For the Evulz.
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The Last Ship / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
The Last Ship / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: the XO has this sort of reaction to the stew given to him at dinner being monkey meat, despite the fact that there are obviously no cows around to be seen.
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The Last Ship / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
The Last Ship / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: A fair number of the Nathan James crew are promoted over the Time Skip between Seasons 2 and 3: Chandler is promoted to Captain and is serving as Chief of Naval Operations while also acting as the de facto Secretary of Defense. Slattery is promoted to Captain and is now Commanding Officer of Nathan James. Garnett is promoted to Commander and is now Executive Officer of Nathan James. Doc Rios has been promoted to Ensign from Chief Hospital Corpsman. Seaman Miller is now Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Miller. Season 5 sees further promotions for the cast. Chandler, Slattery, and Meyland are all promoted to Four-Star Admirals. Meanwhile, Kara is promoted to Commander and assumes command of Nathan James and Garnett takes command of the newly-commissioned Jeffrey Michener.
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The Last Ship / int_b3d5d61	type	Real-Person Cameo
The Last Ship / int_b3d5d61	comment	Real-Person Cameo: Two of these are seen in the season 2 episode "Safe Zone". Raymond Mabus, the real-life Secretary of the Navy, is seen in a recorded message salvaged from the remains of the White House Situation Room. When Chandler is looking through paperwork salvaged from the White House, a Freezeframe Bonus on a printed online news article shows President Barack Obama meeting with Michener in the Oval Office after his appointment as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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The Last Ship / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Last Ship / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Captain Chandler is a respected commander, speaks fluent Russian, can go toe-to-toe with a renowned naval tactician, and is more than capable in a gun fight.
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The Last Ship / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
The Last Ship / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: One of the officers is a black lesbian.
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The Last Ship / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
The Last Ship / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: Obviously given the series' title. So far we have three: the eponymous USS Nathan James, a Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, RFS Vyerni, an older model Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser and, as of the Season 2, HMS Achilles, an Astute-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine.
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The Last Ship / int_bcff3e56	type	The Last Title
The Last Ship / int_bcff3e56	comment	The Last Title: The title of the series.
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The Last Ship / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
The Last Ship / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Miller, who is the lowest-ranked character featured, is jumpy and constantly picked on. He earns respect throughout the first season, especially when he becomes one of the vaccine's six test subjects. Raymond Diaz picks up this role when he enlists in Season 3, taking over from Miller, who has made PO3.
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The Last Ship / int_bff666b	type	Suicide Pact
The Last Ship / int_bff666b	comment	Suicide Pact: It is revealed that the Chinese Navy has a standing order to sink any ships that fall into enemy hands. Or that they suspect have.
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The Last Ship / int_bffb777a	type	Sawed-Off Shotgun
The Last Ship / int_bffb777a	comment	Jacob Barnes has one of the sawed-off variety...
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The Last Ship / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
The Last Ship / int_c02a3bf2	comment	Imperiled in Pregnancy: Used interestingly with Kara Foster: she volunteers to be one of the test subjects for the vaccine without knowing about the pregnancy. When it starts to look like she's definitely going to die, this trope comes into play, with her imminent death being even more traumatic than everyone else's due to the pregnancy. She doesn't even find out about it until she recovers.
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The Last Ship / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The Last Ship / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Russian Admiral Ruskov does this to his crew before he's even sure who is supposed to be coming is actually coming.
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The Last Ship / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
The Last Ship / int_c2288824	comment	Sean Ramsey's movement also invokes this idea, claiming those immune to the virus like him have been "chosen", so his aim is to breed a master race immune to everything, while the rest die off. However, he's not satisfied with the rest just dying off on their own, but tries to destroy the cure and actively kill all those people who haven't yet been infected, thus dipping into Nazi-like behavior.
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The Last Ship / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Last Ship / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: At the beginning of season 2, the Nathan James makes contact with multiple government labs across the US and Europe who have survived the outbreak, and successfully fly planes loaded with the cure to them so large-scale production can begin. This all goes to shit when HMS Achilles, a submarine commanded by 'Immunes' leader Sean Ramsey, destroys all of them with long range missiles by the end of the episode.
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The Last Ship / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Last Ship / int_c420a553	comment	In "Two Sailors Walk into a Bar", Ruskov has been trying to sway Chandler to his cause and become warlords. Chandler will have none of it:
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The Last Ship / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Last Ship / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Sean Ramsey takes Sorenson's news that Nathan James neutralized Admiral Ruskov and sent Vyerni to the Davey Jones' Locker with visible relief, implying that Ruskov had pursued Achilles as well at an earlier point and that Achilles was lucky to survive.
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The Last Ship / int_c7eaae49	type	Renegade Russian
The Last Ship / int_c7eaae49	comment	Renegade Russians: In light of the collapse of the Russian Federation, a portion of the Russian military has broken away from the remaining command and gone rogue.
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The Last Ship / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
The Last Ship / int_c93a6560	comment	Takehaya is visibly shaken up when he sees Peng's men destroying artifacts of the Japanese culture. But what a payback he later scores...
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The Last Ship / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Last Ship / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Season 5 introduces some rather fantastical elements that are left up to the viewer as to whether they're real. Can Chandler "hear" the Gran Colombian battleship or is it simply his PTSD catching up with him? Can Conchita Barros see the future, like with the generals' attempted coup, or she just a psycho who guessed right? And there's Chandler's Dying Dream of all the people who died over the course of series urging him to live.
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The Last Ship / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Corrupt Cop: Maryland State Police, in the absence of a functioning government, serve Amy Granderson as her personal Gestapo. It's implied, in the Season 2 premiere, that some of the troopers aren't even actual police but rather people with "security" backgrounds who are given uniforms, but others are explicitly confirmed to be career State Troopers. Several viewers were quick to draw parallels with real-life cases of potentially-illegal/unconstitutional actions by MSP troopers.
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The Last Ship / int_cddc61ac	comment	Fake-Out Make-Out: Dr. Scott invokes this with Captain Chandler to fool the Russians in "Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar."
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The Last Ship / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: President Michener seemingly hangs himself, only for a later episode to reveal that it was staged by Shaw and the regional leaders as part of their planned coup.
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The Last Ship / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: The appropriately titled "Safe Zone."
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The Last Ship / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Near the end of season 5, the Nathan James crew discover a mockup of Southern US Command within the enemy camp they capture in Cuba, which Tavo's men used to train for their attack on the real thing. In turn, the crew then use the same mockup to plan how to retake the building.
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The Last Ship / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Last Ship / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Chandler is not pleased when he finds out that his crew have been running a fake mission so that nobody on the ship would find out that the rest of the world's been going to hell. And when he finds out that Rachel murdered Niels without consulting him first, he is absolutely furious.
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The Last Ship / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
The Last Ship / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Niels Sorenson. He modified the virus that is central to the show's premise, turning a virus that normally only infected arctic birds into something hyper-infectious with no known cure that rips through the human population. Not only that, but the reason why it spread into the general population was because he injected himself with the modified virus, rendering himself immune, turning himself into a Typhoid Mary who infects everyone he comes in contact with, and never thought to step forward so that other scientists could use that information in their own research to develop a cure. And then, in season two, if that wasn't bad enough, not only does he deliberately infect survivors, he develops an aerosol delivery system for the virus. And installs it into teddy bears. Dr. Hamada, of Amy Granderson's faction, is a true believer and reveals himself to be ruthless in carrying out her vision, including attempting to abort Kara's baby to try and harvest stem cells from the fetus to make his own version of the cure. Dr. Vellek, already controversial for his unorthodox theories regarding genetic manipulation of human beings on a mass scale, is revealed to be orchestrating a plan to bring all humanity under mental control even as he cures a deadly plant disease called Red Rust.
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The Last Ship / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
The Last Ship / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: Season 4 sees the ship's SH-60 Seahawk helicopter replaced with a UH-1 Huey. The pilot's bitching about it reveals the justification: while not as good for operating from a destroyer (Hueys can be configured for antisubmarine warfare, but this one isn't, and the US Navy has never used it for ASW; the SH-60 is better suited to that role anyway), the Huey is more reliable and easier to fix, which is why the Navy, Air Force, and Army still keep some of them around despite having officially replaced them decades agonote The Marines still use the Huey as a front-line helicopter, intend to continue using it for the foreseeable future and then some, and recently developed a new and highly-advanced model, the UH-1Y, that outperforms the Blackhawk family in many ways. Hey, if it ain't broke.... Also a bit of a subversion, as the Huey remains in limited service with the Navy and is quite popular on the civilian and export markets, and is still in production sixty years after the prototype first flew. Another Huey becomes important in Season 5, after the Seahawk fleet is grounded by the Colombian computer virus. The Hueyâ€™s reliability and Simple, yet Awesome nature are lampshaded by the all-female flight crew, who tell Chandler that since the plague and famine theyâ€™ve run the old bird on everything from ethanol to moonshine (with a little loving Percussive Maintenance thrown in). Literally done by Slattery in Season 5. He needs a fresh uniform but doesn't have his sea bag aboard Nathan James so he grabs the cammies he'd donated to become an exhibit from their display case.
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The Last Ship / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
The Last Ship / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Jeffrey Michener broke CDC protocol and had his son (at college up north) transported down to Florida so he could be with his family while the US government coordinated aid in that state. However, his son was infected and caused the otherwise safe-zone in Florida to become overrun with the virus.
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The Last Ship / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Captain Tom Chandler. His actual rank is Commander (O-5), not Captain (O-6). As the Commanding Officer of a ship in the Navy, he holds the title of Captain, regardless of his rank. Season three sees him promoted to O-6, and for that matter so is Slattery, who takes the post of Nathan James CO after Chandler is promoted to Chief of Naval Operations.
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The Last Ship / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Last Ship / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Bivas, a Pintsized Powerhouse Badass Israeli who can do many nasty things to opponents much bigger than her.
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The Last Ship / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
The Last Ship / int_dbb414ed	comment	The military choppers the Russians have in the first episode are American with Russian markings. A later episode mentions that they were salvaged from an abandoned NATO installation. Speaking about choppers, the one shown on the RFS Vyerni is a Mi-24 "Hind-D". Though obviously Russian, the Hind-D is a Russian Air Force gunship designed for exclusively for land warfare. In reality, the RFS Vyerni would have been carrying Ka-27 "Helix" choppers and would have deployed a "Helix-D" search-and-rescue type to fish Chandler and Tex out of the water. Also, how did they helicopters get so close to the ship? In real-life, they'd have been detected on radar and shot down with missiles long before they got anywhere near the ship.
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The Last Ship / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Last Ship / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Curtis is introduced as an especially Deep South member of an immune community in Florida. He later murders Rachel Scott in the Season 2 finale, and his jailhouse interview with Intrepid Reporter Jacob Barnes tells the entire world the secret of President Michener, which causes the shit to REALLY hit the fan.
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The Last Ship / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Last Ship / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: In the Season 3 finale, Chandler finally crosses it after Shaw murders his father, and he kills her in revenge, despite Tex's dying request to keep her alive to stand trial for treason, which makes him realize that he's lost the moral compass needed to get America back on track.
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The Last Ship / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Command Master Chief Hugh Jeter, the senior enlisted sailor aboard the Nathan James. He volunteers for the vaccine trials knowing that a leadership figure has to set an example for the rest of the crew. Chandler and Slattery protest, saying that he is just as valuable, if not more so, to the ship as they arenote As Command Master Chief, Jeter is the senior enlisted man on the Nathan James, and wields a great deal of official and unofficial influence on the ship. Although every commissioned officer outranks him, officers of any rank are always advised to listen to the advice of a Chief, Senior Chief, or Master Chief. There's a reason why even admirals have to ask permission to enter the Chiefs' Mess. He simply says that the decision has been made and that there isn't anything his two commanding officers can do about it. It helps that he fits one of the patient profiles Dr. Scott needed to complete her trial.
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The Last Ship / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Discussed and averted. Slattery explains to Tophet what keelhauling isnote It's a punishment from the age of sail where a crewman would be tied up and hauled from one side of the ship to the other by way of the ocean. The sailor would scrape across the hull and any sea life that's taken root (namely barnacles with their sharp shells) before being brought back aboard. If the punished hadn't drowned, they were usually suitably cowed. but also says that such techniques are ultimately counterproductive when trying to get information out of somebody. Instead, Slatterynote evidently a reservist and formerly a homicide detective with the Chicago Police Department calmly explains that it's in Tophet's best interest to cooperate because it would ensure better treatment and Tophet eventually starts to cooperate. When interrogating Juan Carlos, Slattery uses the carrot and stick approach, giving him water and making him more comfortable when he cooperates, though this is also because the prisoner is quite badly wounded, and torture could kill him before he gave up anything useful. Also averted when Slattery and Chandler interrogate President Michener. They don't threaten him, they don't use torture, they simply work on shaking his faith in Sean Ramsey and trick him into telling the truth.
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The Last Ship / int_e27693	type	The Coup
The Last Ship / int_e27693	comment	The Coup: At the end of "Paradise", Allison Shaw and the US's regional leaders forcibly reduce the Presidency to puppet status, so they can rule as an autocratic oligarchy. However, it gets worse. By the end of "Legacy", they are in the process of physically dividing the United States into the constituent regions by building walls along the new borders, and breaking down the US armed forces into four constituent armies who report to their respective regional leaders, not the President. They are successful in the latter by having the highest ranking generals in the country (who are loyal to the United States and the President) murdered, so they can be replaced with more opportunistic and less scrupulous officers supportive of the division.
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The Last Ship / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
The Last Ship / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: In Season 2, the cult of the Immunes lead by the Ramseys, who believe that Immunes are the future of humanity and entitled to rule the post-Red Flu Earth. They successfully took over Europe, but are stopped from seizing America by the Nathan James and her crew.
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The Last Ship / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
The Last Ship / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: The Russian Renegades score several direct hits on the ship. In the end it's none the worse for wear and no word on casualties.
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The Last Ship / int_e652089c	type	Artistic License â€“ Ships
The Last Ship / int_e652089c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Ships: The show is generally all right with its portrayal of naval warships, but in "Two Sailors Walk into a Bar", the aft deck of what is supposed to be a Kirov-class guided missile battlecruiser has a prominent turret with three large guns. This is because, lacking a proper Kirov to film on, that scene was filmed aboard USS Iowa. A more glaring example is shown with the HMS Achilles Tomahawk missile attack. While Astute-class submarines do carry Tomahawks, they lack VLS, which means the Tomahawks would have to be launched from any of the six torpedo tubes. Even so, HMS Achilles' missiles are not only shown to have emerged from the water vertically, but twenty-six of them were launched all at once. The latter is especially glaring due to the Astute-class submarine's size (97 meters); even if she had been modified with VLS, she wouldn't have been able to hold twenty-six tubes. By comparison, a Virginia-class submarine (which is 115 meters) only holds twelve VLS. There's also the issue that Tomahawks lack the range necessary to strike the targets shown. Quiet levels do not actually exist as protocols for naval surface warships, and the depiction of quiet level 2 (walking around in socks and whispering) is what submarines would do, not surface ships. Such measures are superflous given the Prairie-Masker system (which Chandler orders to be activated) is a more effective stealth measure (which Arleigh Burke destroyers like Nathan James do use).
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The Last Ship / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Last Ship / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: The end of the pilot reveals that Quincy Tophet, one of the scientists onboard, is secretly on the radio speaking in Russian about how they are not going to America.
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The Last Ship / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: There are shades of characters having to be told things which are supposed to have already been drilled into every serviceman, like being told how to follow orders or how to assist a medic in first aid. Many of the problems that have been faced aboard ship would have been avoided completely if appropriate watch stations were being maintained. In the season one finale the first team ashore in Baltimore declares the port clear upon arrival of the motorcade when a cursory visual check of windows would have probably revealed a sniper in position.
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The Last Ship / int_ea382fea	type	Wait Here
The Last Ship / int_ea382fea	comment	Wait Here: The scientist Rachel Scott is told to stay on the ship at Gitmo, so of course she leaves at the first possible chance.
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The Last Ship / int_ea480f92	type	Simple, yet Awesome
The Last Ship / int_ea480f92	comment	Another Huey becomes important in Season 5, after the Seahawk fleet is grounded by the Colombian computer virus. The Hueyâ€™s reliability and Simple, yet Awesome nature are lampshaded by the all-female flight crew, who tell Chandler that since the plague and famine theyâ€™ve run the old bird on everything from ethanol to moonshine (with a little loving Percussive Maintenance thrown in).
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The Last Ship / int_ec27f46e	comment	When Chandler is looking through paperwork salvaged from the White House, a Freezeframe Bonus on a printed online news article shows President Barack Obama meeting with Michener in the Oval Office after his appointment as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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The Last Ship / int_eef85d73	type	People's Republic of Tyranny
The Last Ship / int_eef85d73	comment	People's Republic of Tyranny: In "Legacy", Allison Shaw and the regional leaders publicly defend their decision to break up the United States into smaller nations by claiming it is to prevent the country from becoming a dictatorship. However it is revealed the new nations themselves will be just as bad (if not worse), as the leaders are in the process of having massive prisons built in their jurisdictions to imprison dissenters who disagree with the coup and support the federal government.
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The Last Ship / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
The Last Ship / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: Tom Chandler, the captain of the ship, isn't told that his real mission is to support the scientist looking for the cure. The ship is also placed on radio silence for the duration of the mission, which oddly prevents them from receiving any news from the outside.
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The Last Ship / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
The Last Ship / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Averted with Dr. Rachel Scott, who is quite heroic. Subverted with Dr. Quincy Tophet, who only assisted the Russians because they were holding his wife and daughter hostage. Played straight-ish with Sean Ramsay and his crew, newest villains in the second season. Though multinational in composition, Ramsay, his brother, and several followers are former members of the Royal Navy. As a bonus, their own ship is an Astute-class fast-attack submarine, HMS Achilles. However, Ramsay is not so much "evil" as "traumatized into criminal insanity." Subverted and played straight-ish in Season 4, where Nathan James has an MI6 operator, Commander James "Fletch" Fletcher, aboard to help out. Another MI6 man, known only as Harry, comes aboard posing as a trawler captain hauling refugees, and tells Fletcher that the British government (apparently the only one in Europe that remained functional throughout the plague, and who took heavy losses in the Immune War) are cancelling the "Special Relationship with the US. The UK is starving and Vellek has given them An Offer You Can't Refuse. Fletch reluctantly obeys his new orders to steal the immune seeds, but is clearly very conflicted about it. Harry, on the other hand, has no particular issue with murdering four American Sailors. A Call-Back by the President in Season 5 indicates that the USA has not let the events of Season 4 slide, and relations with the British remain tenuous three years later.
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The Last Ship / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Last Ship / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Dr. Scott gives morphine to a dying passenger on the Italian cruise liner knowing that there is nothing she can do besides end his suffering. Tophet prepares morphine injections to give to the trial volunteers when it looks as if there is no hope. Subverted heartbreakingly by by then-Secretary now-President Michener who, after his son, who shouldn't even have been there, succumbed and his daughters began to show signs of the symptoms. He tried to quietly smother them with his pillow, only for one of his daughters to wake up and he was forced to overpower her. Being forced to kill his own daughters left him depressed and subsequently discovering his immunity suicidal (he exposed himself repeatedly to the Red Flu in the hopes of catching it), and open to the Ramseys' machinations.
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The Last Ship / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The Immune Wars, where the Immunes conquered continental Europe and slaughtered most non-Immunes. It gets referenced several times, but is already over by the time Sean Ramsey makes his move on America in Season 2.
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The Last Ship / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
The Last Ship / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: Commander Mike Slattery.
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The Last Ship / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Tophet. He takes advantage of the mounting uncertainty and worry over the spread of the disease and the lack of information from the Captain to sow his own seeds of discontent, starting with his minder, "Bacon". Chandler puts a stop to it at the end of "Lockdown". Sean Ramsey and other Immune "missionaries", who are spreading the idea to American Immunes that they should take ownership of the world. The movement even manages to subvert the President of the United States.
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The Last Ship / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
The Last Ship / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: President Jeffrey Michener, who was naturally immune to the virus, is suicidally guilty over surviving as his family died around him. Takehaya delivered the cure to his people, but unbeknownst to him Peng had already exposed them to chemicals that blocked the cure from working. His guilt upon learning the truth becomes the catalyst for his Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Last Ship / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Last Ship / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In "Solace", Ned Ramsey talks about not getting in touch with Faslanenote Unfortunately, no-one told him how to pronounce the name. It's supposed to be "Fass-lane", not "Faslan" as he calls it., which is the location of HMNB Clyde, the home base for British nuclear submarines. In "Achilles", one of the captured mercenaries admit to being an ex-operator with the Naval Special Warfare Force or Fuerza de Guerra Naval Especial. In "In The Dark", the three ships pursuing the Nathan James are identified as Luyang III-class, which is the NATO designation for China's Type 052D guided missile destroyer.
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The Last Ship	hasFeature	Sensor Suspense / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Sleight of Tongue / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Slept Through the Apocalypse / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Smooch of Victory / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Sole Surviving Scientist / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	State Sec / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Sub Story / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Submarine Pirates / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Suddenly Significant City / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Captain / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Coup / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Dead Have Names / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Immune / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Last Title / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Mountains of Illinois / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Purge / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Show of the Books / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Social Darwinist / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Token Good Cop / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Twofer Token Minority / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Visionary Villain / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	War Arc / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Wasteland Elder / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Wasteland Warlord / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	Wrench Wench / int_58e3b9fc
The Last Ship	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_58e3b9fc
thelastship	sameAs	The Last Ship

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