Which then begs the question, if a dinner is served in captain's quarters, and the captain veers off the main course and goes straight for the desserts, where will the ship go?A Ship of the Desert would happily eat the main course and then go where it pleases, as usual.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
