COMMAND A KING'S SHIP

Surely the British will never tire of the days when the sun never set over their imperialist empire, aided, of course, by the daring and patriotism of the royal navy. The time 1784, the ship Undine, commanded by Captain Richard Bolitho, whose hapless duty it is to help the Spanish and English maintain an uneasy East Indian truce by the transfer of a dying Spanish fortress to the more resourceful Union Jack. The enemy, even in those uneasy ""cold war"" days, is France, aided by the unscrupulous pirate Muljadi who makes Lizzie Borden smell like a rose; against insurmountable odds the impossible is of course accomplished, only slightly tainted by the bittersweet memories of a tempestuous but doomed adulterous affair. Good enough of its kind.