"There have been a great many dead captains over the years."

So no one asked the great captain's advice on the design of the V-790?

"The great white captain knew, then, that you were not on board?"

Perhaps the great white captain would not remember their bay.

The man thinks it will make him a great captain.

"Do you think that we will need a great captain, then?"

There only has every great captain come to be its master.

The great captain let his enemy lay hands on her.

"A good ship with a great captain isn't coming home."

The messenger himself was not allowed to approach the great captain, of course.