The Best Episodes of seaQuest DSV
Every episode of seaQuest DSV ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of seaQuest DSV!
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
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The best episode of "seaQuest DSV" is "Second Chance", rated 7.6/10 from 112 user votes. It was directed by Bill L. Norton and written by Carleton Eastlake. "Second Chance" aired on 12/27/1995 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Brave New World (2)".
7.6/10 112 votes#1 - Second Chance
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1995-12-27
The crew members travel through a ""space-time sphere"" that rockets them back in time to October 1962. This places them in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis where they have to try to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
7.4/10 111 votes#2 - Brave New World (2)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1995-09-20
Ten years after its mysterious disappearance, the seaQuest appears back on Earth. A tough Navy officer, who had been obsessed with searching for the submarine, assumes command of the seaQuest due to the new hostile world climate.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: Clifton Campbell
7.4/10 98 votes#3 - Equilibrium
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 1995-11-15
Lucas must face up to Bridger over his potentially risky solution to combat an organism that threatens to reach epidemic proportions.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Naren Shankar
7.3/10 88 votes#4 - SpinDrift
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1995-11-08
When Henderson is captured by Macronesia and sentenced to death, Hudson leads an undercover team to free her from the secure facility.
Director: Oscar L. Costo
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
7.2/10 149 votes#5 - Photon Bullet
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1993-12-19
Feeling isolated, unwanted, and unappreciated aboard the seaQuest, Lucas visits Node Three, a communications colony populated by other teenage computer geniuses. Node Three is led by legendary computer hacker Martin Clemens, aka. "Mycroft". However, Lucas soon finds himself caught up in the group's tampering with global finances and tampering's that have more motive than they appear.
Director: Steve Dubin, John T. Kretchmer
Writer: Michael Cassutt
7.2/10 144 votes#6 - Abalon
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1994-05-01
When Commander Ford believes he saw a mermaid at the bottom of the ocean, Captain Bridger orders him to take shore leave. 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.”
Director: Les Sheldon, Bryan Spicer
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
7.2/10 155 votes#7 - The Good Death
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 1994-05-15
When the crew of seaQuest are tricked into torpedoing a refugee ship containing Westphalen's daughter, Dr. Westphalen, Ford, and Shan are trapped trying to save her.
Director: John T. Kretchmer, David J. Burke
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
7.2/10 95 votes#8 - Weapons of War
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1996-06-09
The seaQuest is drawn into the dangerous neutral area where the UEO and Macronesian borders meet the territory of a silent and elusive Asian power.
Director: Steve Beers
Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
7.1/10 181 votes#9 - The Devil's Window
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1993-09-19
While investigating a black smoker, Darwin becomes seriously ill. Bridger must contemplate setting his long-time aquatic pal free in order to save his life.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David J. Burke, Hans Tobeason
7.1/10 175 votes#10 - Treasures of the Mind
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1993-09-26
The seaQuest discovers the lost Library of Alexandria sunken beneath the sea. However, when surrounding nations cannot agree on a peaceful way to share the discovery, Bridger must act as mediator before escalating tensions result in the destruction of the library.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David Kemper
7.1/10 169 votes#11 - Knight of Shadows
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1993-10-31
When Bridger is hurled across his quarters by an unknown force, it leads the seaQuest to find a hundred-year-old sunken ship. The spirits of those who perished there haunt its ancient hull, one of which possesses Dr. Westphalen.
Director: Helaine Head, Bryan Spicer
Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass
7.1/10 148 votes#12 - Better Than Martians
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1994-01-02
The first manned 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.
Director: Les Sheldon
Writer: David Kemper, Dan Brecher
7.1/10 115 votes#13 - The Siamese Dream
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1995-04-30
In order to gain control of seaQuest's nuclear weapons, a powerful psychic plants a nightmare in both Piccolo and Dagwood's minds, so that he will be invited on board to interpret their dreams.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: David J. Burke, Jonathan Brandis
7.1/10 96 votes#14 - Good Soldiers
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1995-12-20
Captain Bridger seeks seaQuest's help to go deep into Macronesian waters and retrieve some top secret data crystals that reveal unspeakable atrocities committed against humanity 20 years earlier. The crimes in which Bridger and Ford may have been involved.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: Naren Shankar
7.0/10 173 votes#15 - Give Me Liberte
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1993-10-24
A virus found on board a sunken space station infects the crew. As Bridger rushes to find the inventor of the pathogen, a warrior submarine from an opposing confederation arrives to cover up their crimes, even if it means the destruction of the seaQuest.
Director: Helaine Head
Writer: John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart
7.0/10 142 votes#16 - Daggers (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1994-09-18
When genetically engineered people, no longer happy with their captivity, stage a revolt, seaQuest, with some new faces are called in to help.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Jonathan Falls
7.0/10 115 votes#17 - When We Dead Awaken
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1994-11-27
When a woman is released from a cryogenic institute after 22 years, she is targeted by an assassin. Brody attempts to help her, and discovers that she is linked to his past and to a possible murder.
Director: Annette Haywood-Carter
Writer: Clifton Campbell
7.0/10 113 votes#18 - Special Delivery
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1994-12-11
Dagwood maintains his innocence after being found guilty of murdering the genetic engineer who created him, despite having apparently been caught in the act on video.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
6.9/10 169 votes#19 - Games
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1993-10-03
Mass murderer Dr. Rubin Zellar is unwittingly taken aboard the seaQuest. Placing him in custody, Zellar is able to escape and informs Bridger that he's hidden a toxin frozen in ice somewhere aboard the ship... a toxin that is surely melting with each passing second.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: David Venable
6.9/10 173 votes#20 - Treasures of the Tonga Trench
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1993-10-10
As the seaQuest undergoes inspection, Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg has a close encounter with an unknown life form while in a seaCrab in the Tonga Trench. When the creature lets him go, Krieg discovers a treasure trove of mysterious glowing stones; stones that may mean big money. However, is the bigger threat to seaQuest the greed that overtakes the crew or the unknown life form?
Director: Bill L. Norton, Les Sheldon
Writer: John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart
6.9/10 158 votes#21 - Brothers and Sisters
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1993-10-17
The seaQuest is ordered to entomb a munitions depot thought to be abandoned. However, when the crew discovers children living inside, Bridger must convince them to follow him to safety.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Art Monterastelli
6.9/10 135 votes#22 - Nothing but the Truth
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1994-01-09
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.
Director: Les Sheldon, James A. Contner
Writer: David J. Burke, Robert Engels, David Kemper
6.9/10 142 votes#23 - Hide and Seek
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1994-02-27
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.
Director: Bryan Spicer, Lindsley Parsons III
Writer: Robert Engels
6.9/10 109 votes#24 - Playtime
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1994-10-23
In response to the voice of a child calling for help, the seaQuest journeys through an underwater vortex and find themselves 250 years in the future where humans are on the brink of extinction.
Director: Robert Wiemer
Writer: Lawrence Hertzog
6.9/10 93 votes#25 - Destination Terminal
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1995-10-18
Lucas oversees the maiden journey of a revolutionary new underwater train, while Ford and Henderson go on a secret date as passengers.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach