Based on William Brinkley’s novel, The Last Ship focuses on the crew of the U. S. S. Nathan James, led by captain Tom Chandler. On a mission through the ice at the North Pole, Chandler will soon realize why one of the directives has been the lack of any contact with the rest of the world: a killer virus decimates hundreds of millions of people around the globe, and the makeshift lab on Chandler’s ship by civilian virologists Rachel Scott (Rhona Mitra) and Quincy Tophet (Sam Spruell) may be the only chance