:16:01
My novel will suffer, but even great
literary artists get hungry.
:16:05
Pull up a chair, and cast some pearls
before the swine.
:16:08
-Or whatever it is you say you do.
-I will.
:16:11
Somebody has to protect these fresh
faces from the captain's badgering.
:16:16
I'm not badgering anyone.
:16:18
I'm just conducting a one-man board
of inquiry. I'm trying to find out...
:16:21
if Ensign Keith wants to stay on board.
:16:26
There is no escape, save death.
:16:28
We are all doing penance.
Sentenced to an outcast ship...
:16:31
manned by outcasts and named after
the greatest outcast of them all.
:16:35
Here we go again.
:16:36
-I'm merely stating fact.
-He's right.
:16:39
I've been sweating it out myself
for over two years...
:16:42
waiting to be relieved of command,
and there's no sign of it yet.
:16:46
But then I don't have
Ensign Keith's influence.
:16:51
Sir, I don't understand.
:16:55
I received this dispatch
from Admiral Walsh about an hour ago.
:17:01
"With your approval, will request
transfer to my staff...
:17:05
for Ensign Willis Seward Keith.
:17:07
Understand needs of U.S.S. Caine
have priority.
:17:13
I didn't know anything about this.
:17:16
Could be coincidence.
:17:18
Or someone pulling strings.
:17:21
What'll it be? The Admiral's staff
or, as Tom puts it...
:17:25
the hell of the Caine?
:17:29
I don't know.
:17:31
It's a simple choice.
Do you want to fight a war?
:17:34
This is hardly the place
for a decision.
:17:36
Nonsense. A good officer
can make up his mind anywhere.
:17:42
Come on. We haven't got all day.
:17:45
Well, sir.