Captain's Log - First Episode

He was the ultimate really. What he was able to achieve way back then with the technology he had available just leaves me in awe.

– Royal NZ Navy Commander Clive Holmes, on Captain James Cook

It's a pretty strange solution to go around kidnapping people, if that was your attempt at some sort of reconciliation. 'Well, we'll go and take on two fishing boats, kill three or four of them, kidnap three of them, take them aboard our strange ship in the hope that we reconcile the events prior to that.' It doesn't sit well with the Turanga people, particularly Ngāti Oneone.

– Historian Nick Tupara, on James Cook's bizarre actions towards the Ngāti Oneone people