The Last Ship

At the helm of the USS Nathan James en route to the Arctic, Capt Tom Chandler learns that the destroyer will be in the best possible place - a circumstance his crew must utilize - to save humanity from extinction. A virus has wiped out more than half the population since the ship embarked, and despite orders from the US government to return, Chandler - believing home is now a shadow of itself - decides the safest place to develop a vaccine is at sea. That task falls mainly to virologist Dr Rachel Scott, a civilian originally assigned to the Nathan James to study birds. `The Last Ship' is based on a novel by William Brinkley and is executive-produced by filmmaker Michael Bay (`Transformers').