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John T. Kretchm Er: Seaquest Can
John T. Kretchm Er: Seaquest Can
The first crewed mission to Mars returns home to Earth, led by Commander Scott Keller, an old
friend of Bridger's. However, a malfunction during re-entry plunges the capsule into the ocean
where a corrupt general from a foreign confederation races to recover the astronauts before the
seaQuest can.
In preparation for an experiment, the crew evacuates the seaQuest, leaving only Commander
Ford, Lt. Commander Hitchcock, Lieutenant Krieg, Chief Crocker, and Lucas aboard. However,
environmental extremists use the seaQuest's vulnerable state to seize control of the boat.
Absent: Stephanie Beacham as Dr. Westphalen, Ted Raimi as Lieutenant O'Neill, Marco
Sanchez as Sensor Chief Ortiz
When Dr. Raleigh Young's magma buoy launched from the seaQuest months earlier rockets
out of the sea and crash lands onto an island, a group of treasure hunters believe that the UEO
is on their way to steal the fortune they hope to find.
When an environmental radical begins to sink whaling ships, the UEO orders Bridger to find the
attacker and destroy him. However, Bridger refuses on moral grounds and resigns as captain
of the seaQuest.
While visiting Dr. Westphalen is visiting Malcolm Lansdowne, the two of them are captured by
ousted dictator and escaped UEO prisoner Milos Tezlov, who wants Malcolm's dolphins to train
for militaristic purposes. However, when Kristin notices Tezlov's autistic son Caesar taking an
extreme liking to dolphins, she forges a deal for her release, granting Tezlov passage aboard
the seaQuest.
UEO Secretary General Andrea Dre travels aboard the seaQuest en route to a conference
where she invites Lucas to join her to speak out on his work with Darwin. However, Lucas soon
finds himself held hostage along with the leaders of the other UEO confederations.
When Commander Ford believes he saw a mermaid at the bottom of the ocean, Captain
Bridger orders him to take shore leave, but while on leave, Ford encounters the same woman
again and soon finds himself ensnared in a mysterious scientist's unnatural experiment.
Meanwhile, Lucas sneaks away to a party where Julianna and he may go “all the way.”
The seaQuest makes the biggest discovery in Human history when they discover an alien
starship entombed in an undersea rock face; trapped there for over a million years. When an
away team goes inside the ship, they find that they might not be the only thing aboard it.
The seaQuest is tricked into torpedoing a ship carrying dozens of child refugees, led by Cynthia
Westphalen, Kristin's daughter. When their launch is damaged, Commander Ford, Shan, and
the Westphalens must take refuge in the Amazonian Confederation, whose brutal leader
believes the seaQuest has sent assassins after him.
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An emotional time is at hand as the seaQuest's tour of duty comes to an end; Chief Crocker
faces his retirement and the end of his marriage, Commanders Ford and Hitchcock are offered
the same command, and Captain Bridger and Dr. Westphalen begin a romantic relationship.
Most emotional of all is Lucas who realizes that his father is hardly a part of his life anymore.
However, when the Earth's crust begins to crack open underneath his father's power plant, the
world is threatened by an unstoppable rise in ocean temperature which will melt the polar caps.
With lava seeping into the sea, Bridger must sacrifice the seaQuest in order to save the world.
Final appearances: Stephanie Beacham as Dr. Westphalen, Stacy Haiduk as Lt. Cmdr.
Hitchcock, Royce D. Applegate as Chief Crocker
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The crew of the new seaQuest shove off from New Cape Quest, Florida, but their shakedown
cruise is interrupted when Genetically Engineered Life Forms (G.E.L.F.s) revolt and seize
control of their island colony as well as a defensive weapons space base and threaten to
destroy the Human race.
Note: The Two-hour season 2 premiere episode, but in syndication is shown as 2 separate
episodes.
The engineers of the alien spacecraft that the original seaQuest discovered before her
destruction receive the message sent by the crew and relay their intentions, through Darwin, to
make first contact with the Human race. While the crew are ecstatic, General Thomas and a
hot-shot UEO lieutenant can only see things from a military perspective.
A parapsychologic experiment gone terribly wrong and has driven the residents of the peaceful
Miranda Colony to near insanity, including Captain Bridger's old girlfriend, who pleads with him
for help. When the seaQuest arrives, they too are affected.
While on shore leave, Captain Bridger and Dr. Smith struggle with a possible romance after
rumors about their love life sweep through the seaQuest. Meanwhile, Henderson and O'Neill go
out on a date, while Commander Ford, Brody and Ortiz try to find dates. On their shore leave,
Piccolo, Lucas and Dagwood respond to Piccolo's father's plea for help.
A distant call for help pulls the seaQuest through an underwater anomaly, propelling the boat
225 years into the future where they find that mankind has destroyed itself, leaving only two
teenaged kids as the only Human life left on Earth.
A distress call from an underwater horticultural colony brings the seaQuest and her crew to
investigate. However, the seemingly benign colony is not what it appears to be when a flower
picked by Henderson is brought back to the boat and begins to mutate.
Lieutenant Brody's mother suddenly reappears in her son's life after being cryogenically frozen
for twenty-two years, though their reunion may be short lived as she is soon targeted by an
assassin – an assassin who's affiliated with someone the seaQuest crew is familiar with.
When Dr. Smith performs psychological evaluations on the crew, Commander Ford allows
Dagwood to take shore leave. Trouble soon arises when he is accused of murdering the man
who created him, something he does not remember doing. Sentenced to life in prison, Ford and
Brody attempt to give Dagwood a small taste of a life he's never had and seemingly never will.
Lucas, Brody, O'Neill and Henderson are pulled beneath the Earth's surface into a cavern while
in a seaLaunch. With not enough air for them all to return to the surface, they must take their
chances in a lottery. When Lucas comes up short, he must come to terms with being
condemned to death.
An undersea mining operation raises the temperature in the South Atlantic, releasing a
behemoth prehistoric crocodile from its icy tomb which threatens the life of local inhabitants,
including an undersea farming team led by Commander Ford's family.
Absent: Edward Kerr as Lieutenant Brody, Kathy Evison as Lieutenant Henderson
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On a deep diving mission, Commander Ford discovers an ancient gold helmet proving that the
lost continent of Atlantis once existed. However, when Captain Bridger and Ortiz try the helmet
on, they are consumed by the ancient curse sealed within and begin lashing out at the crew.
While up-world, Lucas falls for a beautiful woman and asks to resign from his position aboard
the boat. However, he soon becomes ensnared in an elaborate scheme to seize control of the
seaQuest and deal a crippling blow to the UEO.
When a comet splashes into the water near seaQuest's location, it mysteriously disintegrates
into particles, which cocoons the boat and impregnates it with an aggressive alien predator that
disables the ship a