The BEST episodes of seaQuest DSV season 1

Every episode of seaQuest DSV season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of seaQuest DSV season 1!

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.

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Give Me Liberté
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7.83
189 votes

#1 - Give Me Liberté

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1993

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.

Directors: Bill L. Norton
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The Last Lap at Luxury
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7.74
203 votes

#2 - The Last Lap at Luxury

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1994

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.

Directors: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Zora Quayton
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Nothing But the Truth
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7.71
124 votes

#3 - Nothing But the Truth

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1994

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.

Directors: Les Sheldon
Writer: David Kemper
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Better Than Martians
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7.56
210 votes

#4 - Better Than Martians

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1994

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.

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The Devil's Window
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7.54
266 votes

#5 - The Devil's Window

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1993

Darwin falls ill and will die if no cure is found, but a visiting scientist on an important UEO project is unconcerned with the fate of a single dolphin.

Directors: Les Landau
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To Be or Not to Be (2)
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7.52
166 votes

#6 - To Be or Not to Be (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1993

The seaQuest is confronted by another sub. They are attacked and find themselves defenceless and are forced to dive the ship and hide.

Directors: Irvin Kershner
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Treasures of the Tonga Trench
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7.50
136 votes

#7 - Treasures of the Tonga Trench

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1993

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.

Directors: Les Sheldon
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Abalon
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7.43
154 votes

#8 - Abalon

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/1994

Ford accidentally stumbles onto a colony of genetically altered humans, adapted by a scientist to live underwater.

Directors: Les Sheldon
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Brothers and Sisters
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7.37
193 votes

#9 - Brothers and Sisters

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1993

The seaQuest discovers a group of children living in an old munitions facility on the sea floor and they must evacuate them, before, the structure collapses and unleashes a deadly explosion. Meanwhile, Lucas develops a crush on the teenage girl.

Directors: Bill L. Norton
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Games
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7.33
191 votes

#10 - Games

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1993

The crew of seaQuest rescue a warden and his only prisoner from beneath the ice cap. The prisoner escapes and reveals that he holds a deadly toxin which will be released unless the crew does as he says, which is launching the seaQuest's missiles against the UEO.

Directors: Joe Napolitano
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The Good Death
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7.29
156 votes

#11 - The Good Death

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/1994

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: David J. Burke
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Such Great Patience
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7.25
131 votes

#12 - Such Great Patience

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1994

Things threaten to go terribly wrong when the seaQuest crew discovers a million-year old spaceship. Their only hope is Darwin being the key to bridging the communications gap.

Directors: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David Kemper
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To Be or Not to Be (1)
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7.24
359 votes

#13 - To Be or Not to Be (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1993

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.

Directors: Irvin Kershner
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Greed for a Pirate's Dream
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7.23
234 votes

#14 - Greed for a Pirate's Dream

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1994

When a top-secret UEO project shows the approach of a catastrophic volcanic eruption, the crew of seaQuest must convince treasure seekers on the island to abandon their lifelong search or face certain death.

Directors: James A. Contner
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Treasures of the Mind
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7.23
279 votes

#15 - Treasures of the Mind

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1993

When a preserved annexe of the Great Library of Alexandria is discovered, many nations send their fleets to lay claim to its treasures. The UEO orders Bridger to mediate the dispute and sends a team of ESP parapsychologists to help the negotiations.

Directors: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David Kemper
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Whale Song
star
7.22
203 votes

#16 - Whale Song

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1994

A renegade sub is sinking whaling ships, which are in themselves illegal and against their moral judgement, the crew of seaQuest must stop the sub from its mission. Meanwhile, Krieg is on a mission of his own: to have a cheeseburger, despite red meat being outlawed.

Directors: Bryan Spicer
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The Regulator
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7.19
240 votes

#17 - The Regulator

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1993

When a vital component of seaQuest's air conditioning fails and regular channels fail, Krieg relies on a black market source called The Regulator. When Darwin disappears the seaQuest must track down the renegade who is seeking the meaning of life.

Directors: Les Sheldon
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Bad Water
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7.17
212 votes

#18 - Bad Water

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1993

A hurricane threatens to prevent the rescue of a French sightseeing submarine which is stuck in a freshwater sink hole and running out of oxygen. When a team from the seaQuest are forced to the surface they must rely on each other to survive the storm.

Directors: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David Kemper
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Knight of Shadows
star
7.11
132 votes

#19 - Knight of Shadows

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1993

When a small team from seaQuest board a ancient sunken ship in order to determine why it went down, they find themselves trapped in a series of very bizarre and supernatural events.

Directors: Helaine Head
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The Stinger
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7.10
204 votes

#20 - The Stinger

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/20/1994

In the lead up to an important demonstration, Lucas is knocked unconscious and the Stinger, seaQuest's prototype high speed sub, is stolen.

Directors: Jonathan Sanger
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seaWest
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7.05
187 votes

#21 - seaWest

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1993

Hitchcock goes into an underwater gold mining colony in order to investigate a distress signal and discovers that the original and rightful owner of the mine and his family are being held hostage by an outlaw and his thugs.

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Photon Bullet
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7.04
132 votes

#22 - Photon Bullet

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1993

When Lucas visits a communications base populated by a group of young computer experts, a famous computer hacker, who now runs the Node, persuades Lucas to break into the World Bank and divert funds for humanitarian causes.

Directors: Steve Dubin
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Hide and Seek
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6.98
207 votes

#23 - Hide and Seek

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/27/1994

A Servo-Croat dictator takes Drs. Westphalen and Lansdowne hostage in order to gain entrance into seaQuest in the hopes of using the ship's technology to rehabilitate his autistic son.

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Higher Power
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6.30
108 votes

#24 - Higher Power

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/22/1994

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.

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