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I think we all know that a ship's cook is totally trustworthy and can be depended on in all cases. I can think of no notable example wherein a ship's cook had ulterior motives or acted against the interests of a captain.

No, but seriously, my cook will have some sort of a piratical past but he won't just be long John Silver [s]even though he's my favourite character[/s].