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''SeaQuest DSV'' was a groundbreaking show set initially in 2018. It first aired on [[NBC]] in 1993 with [[Roy Scheider]] as Captain Nathan Bridger. The show received significant retools at the beginning of each season, including numerous cast rotations. Scheider left after the second season and was replaced by [[Michael Ironside]] as Captain Oliver Hudson. The show was then renamed ''SeaQuest 2032'' as the second season finale set up the characters to be [[Time Skip|thrust ten years into the future]]. The third season performed abysmally, and the show was canceled.

Among the show's ensemble cast, notable is Ted Raimi, brother of famous director Sam Raimi. Ted Raimi is also known as Joxer, from ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''.

 

 

Not to be confused with ''[[Sealab 2020]]'', which ''SeaQuest'' (intentionally or unintentionally) drew a couple broad ideas from.

* [[Atlantis]]

* [[Atlantis Is Boring]] - One of the greatest ''[[Subverted Trope|subversions]]''.

** Also in 'Treasures of the Tonga Trench,' where the 50 Foot Whatever was a [[Bioluminescence Is Cool|bioluminescent squid]].

* [[Axe Crazy]], [[Blood Knight]]: Marilyn Stark, in spades. Was willing to start a nuclear war at Livingston Trench, completely in defiance of orders, because she was sick and tired of having the biggest boat in the water and not being able to kick ass with it. Later blew up several farming and mining communities for the sole reason of pissing off the ''seaQuest'' crew enough to chase her. Deleted scenes have her [[Kick the Dog|fatally shooting a crewman]] who tries to tell her that this may be a bad idea.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Both Bridger and MCPO Crocker invoke this a few times. Notable examples include "Brothers and Sisters," when they both haul out their [[Bling of War]] to go talk down a grief-crazed teenager. (The kid is a hardcore [[Military Brat]] and won't respond to the rest of the rather [[Mildly Military]] crew.)

* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Consider what happens when people start shooting at each other thousands of feet below the sea (hint: [[Ominous Crack]] followed by [[Chunky Salsa Rule]]). However, all the series ever showed consisted of a few flashes, explosions and clouds of bubbles.

* [[The Bridge]]: Both the original and second subs had very cool-looking bridges.

* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Stark attempts to use this against Bridger in the [[Pilot Episode|pilot.]]

* [[Command Roster]]: Played straight, as befitting a series on a naval submarine:

** [[The Captain]] - First Marilyn Stark, then Nathan Bridger, then Oliver Hudson.

** [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] - Admiral Noyce.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: The end of "Treasures of the Tonga Trench." Having determined their treasures are actually {{spoiler|fecal pellets (i.e. fish poop)}}, Bridger comes to deal with Krieg, who started the whole thing, leading to a string of violated regulations. His punishment: confinement to quarters for 24 hours...before he can clean up.

'''Bridger''': Yes, I can. Twenty-four hours, lieutenant. }}

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: In the first season, LCDR Hitchcock had major overtones of this toward Lucas. Most clearly seen in "The Stinger."

* [[Glamorous Wartime Singer]]: Hitchcock poses as one to infiltrate a mining community held hostage in "seaWest."

* [[Heroic Dolphin]]: Darwin the dolphin.

** And as Lt. Tim O'Neill, Ted Raimi, brother of Sam Raimi, he who was Joxer from ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' and other shows.

* [[Hotter and Sexier]] - Season 2

** Literally and figuratively in season 3. Seems they left the air conditioner behind {{spoiler|in space}}.

* [[L Is for Dyslexia]] - Piccolo

* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: LCDR Hitchcock and Lt. Krieg, frequently. Then again, they ''had'' been.

'''Krieg:''' Seemed perfect on the surface. We were both top in our Academy class, headed for command, and then we... well, you can see. (long pause) I guess she didn't really leave me, she just... left me behind. }}

* [[Like a Son to Me]] - Lucas to Captain Bridger.

'''Bridger''': But I'll never be sure, and not knowing eats me alive everyday. But you know what's helped? You. }}

* [[Living Ship]] - The ship has an organic, self-repairing external skin (handy if you've just been torpedoed). At least one episode involves it developing an infection and threatening to lose all structural integrity.

** And don't forget the three psychics the UEO sent out in the first season episode aptly named 'Treasures of the Mind', where it's also shown that Bridger has some psychic abilities too.

** In the episode Siamese Dream it's shown Piccolo possesses psychic powers as well.

* [[Quickly-Demoted Woman]]: Played straight and subverted with Stark in the pilot; she was relieved of command of the seaQuest for being [[Axe Crazy]], but wound up Captain of the Delta-4 [[Big Bad]] sub.

* [[Sand Worm]]: a very large, fire-breathing variant that lived in a system of tunnels beneath the sea.

** If that was implied in the one episode where the only two humans left alive were {{spoiler|playing video games and doing nothing else at all}}, then yes, that fails physics forever. If it's the one where they still existed despite their entire histories being erased via {{spoiler|a previously non-existent [[World War III]] resulting from the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]}}...then not so much.

*** It was the former. The end of (human) history is treated as synonymous with the end of ''time'', and because time is a "Moebius strip" where "the past cannot exist without the future," the twenty-first century "doesn't exist anymore" for the crew to return to. Until, that is, they "ensure a future" by persuading the last two people alive to hook up. The logic is actually quite elegant, if you're stoned as balls.

'''Bridger:''' Now if Lucas is right, we've ensured a future here. And we ought to have brought back the past. }}

**** Um, flag on the play here, as [[Fridge Logic]] specifically points out that humanity is still dead (or as [[The Other Wiki]] would say, ''extinct in the wild''). So what if they got them to hook up and start churning out kids? Who are those kids going to hook up with and make babies - [[Squick|each other]], or with Mom and Dad as well? As with most things on DSV, this was an [[Ass Pull|incomplete pass in the game of logic]].

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