At least Ishmael encounters some bad people for once but the plot is a slog. Lowell spends literally hours on ish’s efforts to bug the ship, and the mysteries of what the captain was doing holed up in his cabin. But nothing ever comes of the surveillance plot wise (he never uses it, suffers consequences from it, or benefits from it in any way shape or form!) and the mystery of the captain is never resolved. I want to like this series (my family loves it) but I’m done.