Season 1 (1993-1994)
| Title | Original airdate | Production | Episode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "To Be or Not to Be" (Pilot) / "The Nathan Bridger Incident" | September 12, 1993 | 101 & 102 | 1 | |
| When Commander Jonathan Ford is forced to relieve Captain Marilyn Stark of duty for disobeying orders, the seaQuest DSV is left without a captain. The new United Earth Oceans Organization recruits reluctant retired Captain Nathan Bridger to assume command; however, Bridger is not at all enthusiastic about rejoining the military. But, when a renegade pirate submarine begins to endanger lives, Bridger can't help but be swept up in the life he tried to escape, especially when the captain of the rebel sub turns out to be the recently fired Stark on a revenge mission to destroy the seaQuest. | ||||
| "Games" | October 3, 1993 | 105 | 2 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Give Me Liberté" | October 24, 1993 | 108 | 3 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Brothers and Sisters" | October 17, 1993 | 107 | 4 | |
| 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. (Special guest star: Kellie Martin.) | ||||
| "The Devil's Window" | September 19, 1993 | 103 | 5 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Treasures of the Mind" | September 26, 1993 | 104 | 6 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Treasures of the Tonga Trench" | October 9, 1993 | 106 | 7 | |
| 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? | ||||
| "Knight of Shadows" | October 31, 1993 | 109 | 8 | |
| When Bridger is hurled across his quarters by an unknown force, it leads the seaQuest to find a hundred-year-old sunken ship where the spirits of those who perished there haunt its ancient hull, one of which possesses Dr. Westphalen. | ||||
| "Bad Water" | November 7, 1993 | 110 | 9 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "The Regulator" | November 21, 1993 | 111 | 10 | |
| When the air conditioning breaks down in the crew quarters, Krieg has no choice but to turn to "The Regulator", a cut-throat black market trader who hides a shamed past with whom Bridger is familiar with and Lucas finds he can sympathize with. | ||||
| "seaWest" | November 28, 1993 | 112 | 11 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Photon Bullet" | December 19, 1993 | 113 | 12 | |
| Feeling isolated, unwanted, and unappreciated aboard the seaQuest, Lucas visits Node Three, a communications colony populated by other teenage computer geniuses, led by legendary computer hacker Martin Clemens, AKA, "Mycroft." However, Lucas soon finds himself caught up in the group's tampering with global finances; tamperings that have more motive than they appear. (Special guest star: Tim Russ.) | ||||
| "Better Than Martians" | January 2, 1994 | 114 | 14 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Nothing But the Truth" | January 9, 1994 | 115 | 13 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Greed For a Pirate's Dream" | January 16, 1994 | 116 | 15 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Whale Song" | February 6, 1994 | 117 | 16 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "The Last Lap at Luxury" | March 20, 1994 | 120 | 17 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "The Stinger" | February 20, 1994 | 118 | 18 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Hide and Seek" | February 27, 1994 | 119 | 19 | |
| While visiting Malcolm Lansdowne, Dr. Westphalen and he 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. (Special guest star: William Shatner.) | ||||
| "Abalon" | May 1, 1994 | 121 | 20 | |
| 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.” (Special guest star: Charlton Heston.) | ||||
| "Such Great Patience" | May 8, 1994 | 122 | 21 | |
| 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 Good Death" | May 15, 1994 | 123 | 22 | |
| 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. | ||||
| "Higher Power"/"An Ocean on Fire" | May 22, 1994 | 124 | 23 | |
| 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. | ||||
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