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The Best Episodes of seaQuest DSV

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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 7 - Equilibrium
    7.6/10(122 votes)

    #1 - Equilibrium

    S3:E7

    Lucas must face up to Bridger over his potentially risky solution to combat an organism that threatens to reach epidemic proportions.

    Director:Anson Williams
    Writers:Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Naren Shankar

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  2. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 13 - Weapons of War
    7.4/10(112 votes)

    #2 - Weapons of War

    S3:E13

    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

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  3. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 8 - Knight of Shadows
    7.3/10(195 votes)

    #3 - Knight of Shadows

    S1:E8

    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.

    Directors:Helaine Head, Bryan Spicer
    Writer:Melinda M. Snodgrass

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  4. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 12 - Photon Bullet
    7.3/10(174 votes)

    #4 - Photon Bullet

    S1:E12

    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.

    Directors:Steve Dubin, John T. Kretchmer
    Writer:Michael Cassutt

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  5. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 13 - Better Than Martians
    7.3/10(172 votes)

    #5 - Better Than Martians

    S1:E13

    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
    Writers:David Kemper, Dan Brecher

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  6. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 20 - Abalon
    7.3/10(170 votes)

    #6 - Abalon

    S1:E20

    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.”

    Directors:Les Sheldon, Bryan Spicer
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  7. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 22 - The Good Death
    7.3/10(179 votes)

    #7 - The Good Death

    S1:E22

    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.

    Directors:John T. Kretchmer, David J. Burke
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  8. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 6 - SpinDrift
    7.3/10(111 votes)

    #8 - SpinDrift

    S3:E6

    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

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  9. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 9 - Good Soldiers
    7.3/10(117 votes)

    #9 - Good Soldiers

    S3:E9

    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

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  10. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 2 - The Devil's Window
    7.2/10(210 votes)

    #10 - The Devil's Window

    S1:E2

    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
    Writers:David J. Burke, Hans Tobeason

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  11. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 3 - Treasures of the Mind
    7.2/10(203 votes)

    #11 - Treasures of the Mind

    S1:E3

    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

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  12. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 20 - The Siamese Dream
    7.2/10(134 votes)

    #12 - The Siamese Dream

    S2:E20

    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
    Writers:David J. Burke, Jonathan Brandis

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  13. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 10 - Second Chance
    7.2/10(132 votes)

    #13 - Second Chance

    S3:E10

    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

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  14. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 7 - Give Me Liberte
    7.1/10(201 votes)

    #14 - Give Me Liberte

    S1:E7

    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
    Writers:Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar

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  15. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 1 - Daggers (1)
    7.1/10(167 votes)

    #15 - Daggers (1)

    S2:E1

    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

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  16. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 1 - Brave New World (2)
    7.1/10(134 votes)

    #16 - Brave New World (2)

    S3:E1

    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

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  17. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 3 - Smoke on the Water
    7.1/10(112 votes)

    #17 - Smoke on the Water

    S3:E3

    The seaQuest attempts to find out the cause of the disappearance of a number of haulers from one of the remotest colonies in the Free Zone where Hudson meets up with a person from his past.

    Director:Oscar L. Costo
    Writers:Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin

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  18. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 4 - Destination Terminal
    7.1/10(116 votes)

    #18 - Destination Terminal

    S3:E4

    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

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  19. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 4 - Games
    7.0/10(197 votes)

    #19 - Games

    S1:E4

    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

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  20. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 5 - Treasures of the Tonga Trench
    7.0/10(200 votes)

    #20 - Treasures of the Tonga Trench

    S1:E5

    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?

    Directors:Les Sheldon, Bill L. Norton
    Writers:Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar

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  21. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 6 - Brothers and Sisters
    7.0/10(185 votes)

    #21 - Brothers and Sisters

    S1:E6

    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

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  22. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 14 - Nothing but the Truth
    7.0/10(157 votes)

    #22 - Nothing but the Truth

    S1:E14

    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.

    Directors:Les Sheldon, James A. Contner
    Writers:Robert Engels, David J. Burke, David Kemper

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  23. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 18 - Hide and Seek
    7.0/10(163 votes)

    #23 - Hide and Seek

    S1:E18

    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.

    Directors:Bryan Spicer, Lindsley Parsons III
    Writer:Robert Engels

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  24. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 2 - In the Company of Ice and Profit
    7.0/10(117 votes)

    #24 - In the Company of Ice and Profit

    S3:E2

    Captain Hudson is ordered to blow up an iceberg that has been directed towards Saudi Arabia by a corrupt businessman, only to find a group of refugees placed on the iceberg to prevent its destruction.

    Director:Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  25. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 11 - Brainlock
    7.0/10(110 votes)

    #25 - Brainlock

    S3:E11

    As the world leaders debate the renewal of the UEO charter a number of assassination attempts are made against the delegates.

    Director:Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writer:Carleton Eastlake

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Best Episodes Summary

"Equilibrium" is the best rated episode of "seaQuest DSV". It scored 7.6/10 based on 122 votes. Directed by Anson Williams and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Naren Shankar, it aired on 11/15/1995. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Weapons of War".