The BEST Episodes of seaQuest DSV
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jan 3, 2022
Network: NBC
The 21st century: mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth; the ocean. But with newfound potential comes old-fashioned conflict and the United Earth Oceans Organization (U.E.O.) assigns the submarine, seaQuest DSV to keep the underwater peace and patrol the planet's final frontier. The captain of the seaQuest and its crew are its guardians, for beneath the surface lies the future.
#1 - Blindsided
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired May 13, 1995
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.
8.28 
#2 - Give Me Liberté
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired Oct 24, 1993
When Commander Ford and other crew members are contaminated with a deadly virus from a downed space station, Captain Bridger finds himself fighting against the clock and a government cover-up to save them.
8.01 
#3 - The Last Lap at Luxury
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired Mar 20, 1994
At a summit conference, Lucas and group of UEO leaders are taken hostage, leaving the seaQuest crew to uncover a mysterious and complicated plot whilst searching for the hostages.
7.84 
#4 - The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired Nov 13, 1994
An experimental submarine escapes from its moorings and manages to launch its nuclear weapons targeted at New Cape Quest, a city with 5 million inhabitants including relatives of the seaQuest crew.
7.84 
#5 - Brainlock
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired Jan 12, 1996
As the world leaders debate the renewal of the UEO charter a number of assassination attempts are made against the delegates.
7.82 
#6 - Splashdown (1)
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired May 21, 1995
The seaQuest is captured by an alien spacecraft and taken to Hyperion, a completely aquatic planet. The crew is then drawn into the civil war between the KrayTaks and the Hyperion resistance.
7.82 
#7 - Dead End
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired Dec 18, 1994
Henderson, Lucas, Brody, and O'Neill are drawn into a furious underwater whirlpool that pulls their shuttle beneath the ocean floor and into a maze of ancient caverns.
7.80 
#8 - Nothing But the Truth
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired Jan 9, 1994
While in the middle of an special experiment when only a skeleton crew is aboard, seaQuest is boarded by a group of commandos who are quickly able to take control of the ship.
7.79 
#9 - Destination Terminal
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 18, 1995
Lucas oversees the maiden journey of a revolutionary new underwater train, while Ford and Henderson go on a secret date as passengers.
7.73 
#10 - Lostland
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired Jan 15, 1995
Ford discovers an ancient warrior's helmet and sword that prove that the lost continent of Atlantis did exist. But the helmet may carry a deadly curse that could destroy Bridger and the crew.
7.72 
#11 - Daggers (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 18, 1994
When genetically engineered people, no longer happy with their captivity, stage a revolt, seaQuest, with some new faces are called in to help.
7.70 
#12 - The Siamese Dream
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired Apr 30, 1995
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.
7.66 
#13 - And Everything Nice
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 22, 1995
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.
7.64 
#14 - Reunion
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired Jan 28, 1996
When 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.
7.64 
#15 - Second Chance
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired Dec 27, 1995
The crew members travel through a ""space-time sphere"" that rockets them back in time to October 1962 and places them in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, where they have to try to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
7.63 
#16 - Better Than Martians
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 2, 1994
seaQuest is hurriedly dispatched to rescue a crew returning from a manned mission to Mars when their space capsule crash lands in the Atlantic Ocean, but the president of an militarised Asian federation wants them too for his own reasons.
7.63 
#17 - Playtime
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 23, 1994
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.
7.62 
#18 - Equilibrium
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired Nov 15, 1995
Lucas must face up to Bridger over his potentially risky solution to combat an organism that threatens to reach epidemic proportions.
7.61 
#19 - To Be or Not to Be (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 12, 1993
The crew of seaQuest are joined by a reluctant Captain Nathan Bridger and set off to investigate a distress call from an underwater colony, only to find it is a trap by a renegade sub under the command of Captain Marilyn Stark, who has a personal vendetta against the seaQuest.
7.60 
#20 - Chains of Command
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired Nov 1, 1995
Hudson must relieve his old commanding officer from duty onboard a heavily armed underwater base after the base fires on Macronesia.
7.59 
#21 - Spindrift
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired Nov 8, 1995
When Henderson is captured by Macronesia and sentenced to death, Hudson leads an undercover team to free her from the secure facility.
7.59 
#22 - Something in the Air
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired Mar 19, 1995
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.
7.58 
#23 - In the Company of Ice and Profit
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 27, 1995
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.
7.57 
#24 - Treasures of the Tonga Trench
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 9, 1993
When Krieg brings back what he believes is a priceless gem, greed runs amok on the seaQuest. No one listens to his stories of sea monsters in the area, until one attacks the seaQuest.
7.54 
#25 - Watergate
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired Mar 5, 1995
The crew transports a pop star to an island military base. Upon arrival they encounter an apparition of the Greek god Neptune, who mistakenly believes the singer and Henderson are actually Minvera and Medusa.
7.53