History Headscratchers / TheLastShip

** It's likely that he may have been tested and found to nt be immune and simply never was exposed due to the relative remoteness of Gitmo from more well-travelled areas of Cuba. The jihadis were also not exactly amenable to being tested.

* How in the hell did one of the four ''Iowa''-class battleships disappear without anyone noticing? How did the Colombians manage to hide it while preparing for their war of conquest? And where on God’s green earth did they come into a supply of 16-inch ammunition, again without anybody noticing that it was missing? The ''Iowa''s are indeed extremely potent warships that would still be a force to be reckoned with today if reactivated, but you can’t exactly grab the keys and drive off with one. All four are museum ships now. Granted, they are supposed to be maintained in such condition that they can be reactivated in time of war, but their magazines are empty and the shells their big guns fire are not the kind of thing that just any old factory can turn out. Operating a battleship is a tremendous logistical undertaking, with the US Navy being the only fleet in the world with the capacity to do so (China and Russia maybe could IRL, if they had any battleships, which they haven’t since 1895 and 1946, respectively). So one of our battleships and tons of stuff that goes boom just walked off and nobody found it out of the ordinary. Somebody (plural) seriously needs to be tied up and shot for letting that happen, plague or no plague.

*** In Season 3, Captain Meylan is said to have taken his ship to a small seaside town on the west coast and established and maintained a plague-free safe zone that saved thousands of lives. Under the circumstances, it's by far the best he could have done.

** Crews require food and ships require fuel and replacement parts. Even if they knew about the virus and decided to stay at sea as a safety measure, there would come a time when the commanders would have no choice but go ashore or barter with another ship and risk exposure.

** It's likely that he may have been tested and found to nt be immune and simply never was exposed due to the relative remoteness of Gitmo from more well-travelled areas of Cuba.

* Is it ever explained how the plague ravaged all the world's naval forces so effectively? The ''Nathan James'' is only gone for a few months so there have to be dozens of ships and submarines that left before becoming infected ''and'' after it was known that allowing anyone new aboard would be dangerous.

* Is it ever explained how all the plague ravaged naval forces so effectively? The ''Nathan James'' is only gone for a few months so there have to be dozens of ships and submarines that left before becoming infected ''and'' after it was known that allowing anyone new aboard would be dangerous.

** They're also paying their workers with food. They probably weren't making consumer goods, but having them work in power plants, farms, or producing equipment for the military.