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The Worst 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 Worst Episode
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    seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 2 - Daggers (2)
    5.0/10(150 votes)

    #1 - Daggers (2)

    S2:E2

    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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  2. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 18 - Hide and Seek
    5.3/10(168 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 20 - Abalon
    5.3/10(176 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 5 - Vapors
    5.3/10(160 votes)

    #4 - Vapors

    S2:E5

    Piccolo's estranged father seeks his help after his wife becomes addicted to an experimental drug. When Bridger and Smith are discovered in an embrace, rumours spread like wildfire about their supposed shipboard romance.

    Director:Les Sheldon
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  5. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 11 - seaWest
    5.5/10(188 votes)

    #5 - seaWest

    S1:E11

    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.

    Directors:Steve Dubin, Gabrielle Beaumont
    Writers:Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar

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  6. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 6 - Playtime
    5.5/10(135 votes)

    #6 - Playtime

    S2:E6

    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

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  7. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 9 - When We Dead Awaken
    5.5/10(141 votes)

    #7 - When We Dead Awaken

    S2:E9

    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

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  8. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 16 - Alone
    5.5/10(138 votes)

    #8 - Alone

    S2:E16

    Wendy employs her psychic abilities and risks her life in a battle of the mind against Avatar, a powerful paranormal being who threatens the world's security with his ability to place political leaders into comas.

    Director:David J. Burke
    Writer:Carleton Eastlake

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  9. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 18 - Something in the Air
    5.5/10(126 votes)

    #9 - Something in the Air

    S2:E18

    The crew protects a group of researchers at an abandoned mining outpost while they study an ancient chest found buried deep in the Mediterranean. However the chest proves to be like Pandora's box, housing a demon who escapes and then preys upon the landing party.

    Director:Steven Robman
    Writer:Lawrence Hertzog

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  10. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 5 - Chains of Command
    5.5/10(118 votes)

    #10 - Chains of Command

    S3:E5

    Hudson must relieve his old commanding officer from duty onboard a heavily armed underwater base after the base fires on Macronesia.

    Director:Anson Williams
    Writers:Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin

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  11. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 12 - Reunion
    5.5/10(106 votes)

    #11 - Reunion

    S3:E12

    SeaQuest docks at a penal colony where the prisoners are enslaved. Henderson recognizes one and inadvertently causes a riot allowing the inmates to escape and take hostages.

    Director:Anson Williams
    Writer:Carleton Eastlake

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  12. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 10 - The Regulator
    5.8/10(187 votes)

    #12 - The Regulator

    S1:E10

    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.

    Directors:Les Sheldon, Gabrielle Beaumont
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  13. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 16 - Whale Song
    5.8/10(172 votes)

    #13 - Whale Song

    S1:E16

    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.

    Directors:Bryan Spicer, Jonathan Sanger
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  14. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 22 - The Good Death
    5.8/10(182 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 3 - The Fear That Follows
    5.8/10(145 votes)

    #15 - The Fear That Follows

    S2:E3

    Extra-terrestrials that are searching for the beginnings of intelligent life are welcomed aboard seaQuest, only to be taken captive by a general determined to have their advanced technological secrets.

    Director:Robert Wiemer
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  16. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 10 - Special Delivery
    5.8/10(138 votes)

    #16 - Special Delivery

    S2:E10

    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

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  17. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 14 - And Everything Nice
    5.8/10(134 votes)

    #17 - And Everything Nice

    S2:E14

    On the mainland, Lucas falls for a beautiful woman and asks to resign from his position, however plans change when she is suddenly kidnapped by terrorists in an attempt to take control of seaQuest.

    Director:Burt Brinckerhoff
    Writer:Lawrence Hertzog

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  18. seaQuest DSV Season 2 Episode 21 - Blindsided
    5.8/10(127 votes)

    #18 - Blindsided

    S2:E21

    When his plane crashes in the South American jungle, Piccolo is kidnapped by a ruthless dictator who he finds out has secretly been creating artificial life forms that have now gone out of control.

    Director:Anson Williams
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  19. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 2 - In the Company of Ice and Profit
    5.8/10(125 votes)

    #19 - 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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  20. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 6 - SpinDrift
    5.8/10(118 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 9 - Good Soldiers
    5.8/10(123 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. seaQuest DSV Season 3 Episode 11 - Brainlock
    5.8/10(116 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 7 - Give Me Liberte
    6.0/10(208 votes)

    #23 - 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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  24. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 8 - Knight of Shadows
    6.0/10(201 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 12 - Photon Bullet
    6.0/10(180 votes)

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Daggers (2)" is the worst rated episode of "seaQuest DSV". It scored 5/10 based on 150 votes. Directed by Bryan Spicer and written by Jonathan Falls, it aired on 9/18/1994. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hide and Seek".