14. - TITANIC: D. S. V. (BRIDGE) -

C. O. B. Captain on the bridge.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS As you were.

LIEUTENANT EDGAR AINSWORTH (HELM OFFICER) Dock signals clear, Captain.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Reply we are holding position awaiting final crew members.

LT. KENNY GWYNN (COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER) Aye sir. Transport Personnel reports the Navigator Lieutenant ...Nafia (Beneficent, Useful) Abdul Baatin (Servant of the unseen) Abdul Haasib (Servant of the reckoner) El-Hashem (the crusher). She’s already aboard, and en route to the bridge, sir.

LT. NAFIA EL-HASHEM Lieutenant El-Hashem reporting for duty, sir. We were told that you needed a helmsman so I volunteered.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Welcome aboard, Lieutenant.

DR. SAMANTHA RYAN Lieutenant, it is good to see you again. The Lieutenant was the first Iraqi to be graduated at the top of the class at the Academy.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS You must be very proud.

LT. NAFIA EL-HASHEM Yes, sir.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Commander Griffiths, our Executive Officer.

COMMANDER DONALD GRIFFITHS Lieutenant. I was stationed on the Lieutenant’s home country some years ago.

LT. NAFIA EL-HASHEM Commander... Captain. May I assume my duties?

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS By all means.

LT. KENNY GWYNN (COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER) Captain, Personnel reports our last six crew members are boarding.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Let us get this over. Departure stations.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Engineering, standby. Gwynn, get me the dock master.

LT. KENNY GWYNN (COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER) Control tower, reading, sir.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Control, this is Titanic ...requesting permission to depart.

DOCK VOICE This is control. Titanic, Permission to depart granted.

LIEUTENANT EDGAR AINSWORTH (HELM OFFICER) Helm ready, sir.

LT. NAFIA EL-HASHEM Departure on plot, sir.

LT. NAFIA EL-HASHEM Clear all moorings.

DOCK VOICE All lines cleared.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Awaiting port gates from this mark.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Maneuvering thrusters, Mister Sulu.

LIEUTENANT EDGAR AINSWORTH (HELM OFFICER) Maneuvering thrusters, sir.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Hold station.

LIEUTENANT EDGAR AINSWORTH (HELM OFFICER) Thrusters at station keeping.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Thrusters ahead, Mister Ainsworth. ...Take us out.

[Titanic engineering]

LT. COM. DUNCAN AHERN (CHIEF ENGINEER) Bridge, power at your discretion.

[Titanic bridge]

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Thank you. Lieutenant, one-quarter impulse power.

LT. NAFIA EL-HASHEM Captain, may I remind you that regulations specify thrusters only while in dock?

DR. SAMANTHA RYAN Hm. Hm.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Impulse power, Mister Ainsworth. Ahead, point five. ...Departure angle on viewer.

LT. NAFIA EL-HASHEM Aye sir.

LIEUTENANT EDGAR AINSWORTH (HELM OFFICER) Departure angle.

CAPTAIN DAVID ADKINS Viewer ahead.

LT. NAFIA EL-HASHEM Aye sir.

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