The WORST episodes of seaQuest DSV

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

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.

Last Updated: 12/4/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
Higher Power
star
6.30
108 votes

#1 - 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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Good Soldiers
star
6.90
110 votes

#2 - Good Soldiers

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/20/1995

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 -- crimes in which Bridger and Ford may have been involved.

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Special Delivery
star
6.94
112 votes

#3 - Special Delivery

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1994

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.

Directors: Gus Trekonis
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Brave New World
star
6.94
101 votes

#4 - Brave New World

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1995

Ten years after its mysterious disappearance, the seaQuest appears back on Earth. A tough Navy officer, who had been obsessed with searching for the submarine, assumes command of the seaQuest due to the new hostile world climate.

Directors: Anson Williams
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Weapons of War
star
6.96
51 votes

#5 - Weapons of War

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/9/1996

The seaQuest is drawn into the dangerous neutral area where the UEO and Macronesian borders meet the territory of a silent and elusive Asian power.

Directors: Steve Beers
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Hide and Seek
star
6.96
209 votes

#6 - 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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Photon Bullet
star
7.06
133 votes

#7 - 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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seaWest
star
7.07
189 votes

#8 - 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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The Stinger
star
7.08
205 votes

#9 - 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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Knight of Shadows
star
7.11
132 votes

#10 - 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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Vapors
star
7.15
143 votes

#11 - Vapors

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1994

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.

Directors: Les Sheldon
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Bad Water
star
7.17
212 votes

#12 - 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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Resurrection
star
7.19
110 votes

#13 - Resurrection

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1995

After faking his own death a second time, radical enviromentalist, Max Scully, returns and is pardoned for his murderous crimes, and Captain Hudson is ordered to escort him to an undersea ecological utopia, unaware of Scully's true intentions.

Directors: Oscar L. Costo
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By Any Other Name
star
7.20
164 votes

#14 - By Any Other Name

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1994

A distress call from an underwater horticultural colony leads the crew into an investigation of the mysterious disappearance of all human life inside the former paradise.

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The Regulator
star
7.20
242 votes

#15 - 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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Whale Song
star
7.21
204 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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When We Dead Awaken
star
7.22
172 votes

#17 - When We Dead Awaken

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1994

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.

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Such Great Patience
star
7.22
132 votes

#18 - 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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Greed for a Pirate's Dream
star
7.22
236 votes

#19 - 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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To Be or Not to Be (1)
star
7.22
361 votes

#20 - 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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Treasures of the Mind
star
7.23
279 votes

#21 - 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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Alone
star
7.24
110 votes

#22 - Alone

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/1995

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.

Directors: David J. Burke
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Sympathy for the Deep
star
7.25
172 votes

#23 - Sympathy for the Deep

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1994

Bridger responds to a plea from an old girlfriend living in an underwater colony that has been dedicated to non-violence. After ten years of peace, the citizens are trying to kill each other.

Directors: Bruce Seth Green
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Dagger Redux
star
7.27
137 votes

#24 - Dagger Redux

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/2/1995

A rogue nuclear physicist known only as the Marauder is determined to destroy the seaQuest. As part of his plan, he rescues a revenge-minded dagger who was imprisoned by Bridger.

Directors: Oscar L. Costo
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The Good Death
star
7.27
157 votes

#25 - 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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