It's a balancing act.  On one hand we want to leave the door open for sadistic sexytime fun, but on the other hand there certainly did seem to be some discontent with The Hawk, for obvious reasons.<br/><br/>My suggestion, which is only a suggestion to move the plot forward:<br/><br/>Mack the Knife, Macauley, et al have had enough and relieve The Hawk of command pending court martial.  Their intention is to head<em>Triton</em>for the nearest port, hand over the girls and the Captain to the authorities, and more or less let the chips fall where they may.<br/><br/>But- conveniently- right about then they get a message about a critical mission that absolutely cannot be postponed.  It could be several things: a lost nuclear weapon, an American ship disabled and drifting towards Soviet waters, or even a rogue Soviet submarine on its way to attack friendly ships or even friendly cities.  Regardless, it's something they have to do<strong>right now</strong>, which means the ladies have to stay onboard until the crisis is resolved.<br/><br/>That gives us time for Interesting Things to happen between certain crew members and certain ladies.  It also means the officers might have to turn a blind eye to certain things, like a redhead gone suspiciously missing, in order to keep the crew from outright mutiny until they can pull the thing off.  That should leave some windows for Ophelia to get creatively abused.<br/><br/>And oh yeah, we're all probably going to jail when we get back.  Call it an incentive to keep the boat out at sea, right? :-P  (Kidding, mostly)