The Best Episodes of seaQuest DSV Season 1
Every episode of seaQuest DSV Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of seaQuest DSV Season 1!
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.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "seaQuest DSV" season 1 is "To Be or Not to Be", rated 6.7/10 from 202 user votes. It was directed by Irvin Kershner, Les Landau and written by David J. Burke, Hans Tobeason. "To Be or Not to Be" aired on 9/12/1993 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Devil's Window".
6.7/10 202 votes#1 - To Be or Not to Be
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1993-09-12
Captain Nathan Bridger is hauled out of retirement to command the new submarine SeaQuest, under the authority of the United Earth/Oceans Organization. His ship goes up against pirate forces commanded by Marilyn Stark, a former SeaQuest captain who tried to instigate a war.
Director: Irvin Kershner, Les Landau
Writer: David J. Burke, Hans Tobeason
7.1/10 181 votes#2 - 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#3 - 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
6.9/10 169 votes#4 - 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#5 - 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#6 - 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
7.0/10 173 votes#7 - 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
7.1/10 169 votes#8 - 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
6.7/10 147 votes#9 - Bad Water
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1993-11-07
Commander Ford, Dr. Westphalen, Lucas and Lieutenant Krieg are trapped on the surface of the ocean as a hurricane rages above them. Meanwhile, suffering severe damage from a lightning strike, the seaQuest must desperately search for a sunken French submarine before its passengers, all children, run out of air.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David Kemper
6.6/10 158 votes#10 - The Regulator
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1993-11-21
When the air conditioning breaks down in the crew quarters, Krieg has no choice but to turn to "The Regulator". He's a cut-throat black market trader who hides a shamed past with whom Bridger is familiar with and whom Lucas finds he can sympathize with.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont, Les Sheldon
Writer: David J. Burke
6.8/10 159 votes#11 - seaWest
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1993-11-28
When the seaQuest visits the Broken Ridge mining colony, one of the colonists desperately pleads for the crew's help to escape from a dangerous situation straight out of the Old West.
Director: Steve Dubin, Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart
7.2/10 149 votes#12 - 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
7.1/10 148 votes#13 - 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
6.9/10 135 votes#14 - 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
6.6/10 136 votes#15 - Greed for a Pirate's Dream
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1994-01-16
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.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh, David J. Burke, Robert Engels
6.7/10 146 votes#16 - Whale Song
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1994-02-06
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.
Director: Jonathan Sanger, Bryan Spicer
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
5.8/10 147 votes#17 - The Stinger
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1994-02-20
Lucas and Lt. Commander Hitchcock enter the seaQuest in a competition to design a revolutionary new kind of single-seat submersible. However, while testing it, Lucas is fired upon and the sub is captured by a rival developer.
Director: Jonathan Sanger
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh, David J. Burke, Robert Engels
6.9/10 142 votes#18 - 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
6.4/10 169 votes#19 - The Last Lap at Luxury
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1994-03-20
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.
Director: Les Sheldon, Bryan Spicer
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh, Zora Quayton
7.2/10 145 votes#20 - 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
6.4/10 134 votes#21 - Such Great Patience
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1994-05-08
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.
Director: David J. Burke, Bryan Spicer
Writer: Hans Tobeason, David Kemper
7.2/10 155 votes#22 - 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
5.5/10 2 votes#23 - Higher Power
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 1994-05-22
A brand new power plant which is set to supply energy to the whole world goes wrong and there is a danger of the polar ice caps melting. Bridger decides he must sacrifice the seaQuest in order to save the world. Meanwhile, Lucas has a reunion of sorts with his father.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh, David J. Burke