RW293 - SeaQuest Rewatch S01E12-13 - Photon Martians

In this weeks episode of The SeaQuest Rewatch, Cory and Tom hack the world and find new life as they discuss season 1 episode 12 & 13 "Photon Bullet" and "Better than Martians."

Photon Bullet:

The Seaquest finds itself being ordered to Node 3, one of the major communications hubs in the world, to deliver some supplies, a request that also includes an invitation for Lucas to come aboard for a visit. Lucas, a teen among adults and feeling alone aboard the Seaquest, and not like an official crew member, finds himself quite at home amongst the denizens of Node 3, a group of like minded teenagers, overseen by Martin Clemens, once a noted hacker named Mycroft, who has since turned his life around.

Lucas asks Bridger to allow him to stay and hang out aboard Node 3 and finds himself enjoying the camaraderie amongst peers. Clemons then reveals that they are more than just a communications node. Their true mission is to try to make the world a better place through their hacking skills, using them to do anything from moving stolen money away from criminals and into charities that could really use it, to correcting election fraud occurring in countries around the world.

Lucas becomes romantically involved with a girl from Node 3 named Julianna, and also befriends a boy named Nick, who Lucas has actually talked with before through an online communications network called the Internex. These fast friendships, the challenge of what Clemens and crew are doing to help the world and welcoming surroundings, a sharp contrast to his life aboard Seaquest, lead Lucas to feel the desire to remain at Node 3.

As Lucas and his friends hang out, they get to talking and decided to see if they can figure out what they can about Clemens past as Mycroft and discover that he may have killed a man while working undercover for various governments as a hacker. Clemens discovers their snooping and comes clean, telling them how he used social engineering to take out the leader of an opposing country back when nations were on the brink of war, an action he has had a hard time reconciling ever since. Now, with Lucas aboard, he is ready to make amends by having him crack The World Bank, thus controlling all the money in the world and ensuring that none of it would go towards wars.

Lucas gets some advice from Bridger and ultimately decides to stop Clemens from taking over the bank, resulting in a hacking showdown that Lucas wins easily. Lucas convinces him that this method it is not the way to end war, and Clemens finally gives in, ending his takeover. Lucas bids his new friends goodbye as Bridger and Ford arrive to escort him back to Seaquest, handing him an envelope containing his first paycheck, cementing his official role aboard the vessel.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Clemens was played by Tim Russ of Star Trek Voyager fame. He was also the Desert Trooper in SpaceBalls who "ain't found shit". He also played The Prowler in Spider-Man The Animated Series from 1997 and was part of Star Trek Renegades; a crowd funded, low budget Star Trek movie. For video games he did voices for Elder Scrolls, Mafia 3, Wolfenstein 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 as War Machine. He was also in one episode of Tequila and Bonetti. Recently, he was in the ill-fated Swamp Thing TV show, Pen15,  and a thriller called Vitals. He has one upcoming project called The Circuit; A collection of ten different stories with ten different genres all combined into one film.

Nick was played by Seth Green of Austin Powers fame. He went on to create Robot Chicken, and has done lots of voice over work including Hulk, Agents of SMASH as Rick Jones/A-Bomb, Family Guy as Chris, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ultimate Spider-Man the TV series as Howard the Duck, Leonardo in the TMNT 2014-2017 series and King Kong in the Batman Lego Movie. He worked with Jonathan Brandis before this, in Stephen King’s IT TV mini series. He also played the werewolf Oz in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Julianna was Sarah Koskoff. Once in a movie called “Hello I Must Be Going”, “That Thing You Do” as Chrissy Thomkins.

Better than Martians:

A manned spacecraft under the command of one Scott Keller that crashed in the ocean near southeast Asia finds itself in need of rescue from Seaquest. Complicating matters is an ongoing war between the nations in that area, resulting in Seaquest being ordered to go in for the rescue while on military alert. The goal is to rescue the astronauts but also to retrieve the core samples they found on Mars that contained signs of life.

Bridger makes contact with the astronauts, and it's revealed he and Scott Keller are old friends. Bridger considers whether or not he felt put off and jealous by the times he had to lobby for funding for the Seaquest as opposed to the ease in which  the funding seemed to come for the space programs. 

Indeed, when it's revealed that the spacecraft's rescue buoy has broken apart from the actual craft, Bridger is questioned by Admiral Noyce and the US President about his possible jealousy and whether or not it could have played a part in his failure to rescue the astronauts so far, an accusation that Bridger takes to heart until Ford helps him realize it's an absurd notion.

Meanwhile, the Asian president, President Chi, orders his general, general Tran, to try and reach the astronauts first in order to create some good PR for their country rather than the usual news of the continuous battles that occur. General Tran takes things a step further by ordering a sub to try and interfere with the Seaquest's rescue, first by planting mines, then later directly attacking the ship, and finally by tailing and capturing Hitchcock and Crocker who went out in a rescue craft to try and distract the sub from the Seaquest. Chi reprimands Tran for his actions, but still wants him to rescue the astronauts before the Seaquest does.

When the Seaquest does manage to find the downed craft, they find it devoid of the astronauts and samples, reasoning that they must have tried to swim for the surface before they ended up falling too far into the depths of the ocean. The truth is however, that general Tran got there first. Tran convinces Chi to allow him time with the rescued crew to get them to the hospital to be treated but instead he threatens to hold them for ransom until he gets the core samples but Captain Keller says he jettisoned them when he realized they weren't being rescued by the Seaquest.

Back at the crashed spacecraft, Lucas has devised a way for them to scan for the samples and they manage to find them, but are attacked by Tran's men. Darwin fights a few off causing a distraction allowing Ford and company to overcome them. Back onshore, Tran makes plans for Keller and crew to "fall" on their way to the hospital but Chi appears with his army and arrests Tran for his misdeeds.  Bridger and Keller are reunited as President Chi is given the opportunity to host the press conference detailing the core samples and the ordeal that Keller and crew had to endure, ensuring not only the good PR he had hoped for, but a better understanding and friendship between nations.

Send Out the WSKRS:

General Tran was played by Aki Aleong. He’s a working actor to this day. He’s appeared in scores of action films as the old man, the retired warrior, old sage and even the Dalai Lama. He started his career in the 1950's alongside The Three Stooges, Steve McQueen and Frank Sinatra. He’s the President/Vice of MANNA, Media Action Network for Asian Americans and the Exec Director of AIM, Asians in Media. 

One of the Mars crewmembers was Una Damon who we've seen before in the Sliders episode “Invasion” as Mary, and in the Lois and Clark episode “The Dad Who Came In Out Of The Cold” as Sweet Tart. Her first role was a guest spot in Doogie Howser, followed by this episode of SeaQuest. She was also the uncredited lab tour guide in the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man film. She was a supporting actor in Knight Rider 2010 which also costarred Nicky Katt from the Voyagers episode “The Day The Rebs Took Lincoln” where he was one of Fagin's pickpockets.

The female news reporter was played by Ellen Leyva and she was actually a news reporter in LA. This is her only acting credit. 

Scott Keller was played by Kent McCord. He appeared in Airplane 2: The Sequel as Unger. He was also in a few episodes of Farscape, Return of the Living Dead 3, Predator 2, and played Johnny Depp's father in 21 Jump Street. He starred in Adam 12 as Officer Jim Reed, a character he also played in Dragnet. His real name is actually Kent McWhirter. 

James Shigeta played President Chi. He appeared in Die Hard and was the voice of General Li in Mulan. He’s had a number of roles from the 50's through to the present day and was a song and dance man back in the 50's and 60's, landing him a handful of leading man roles in romantic films. 

Steven Williams played the American President. He starred in 21 Jump Street as the Captain, a role he reprised in a cameo for the film 22 Jump Street. He was also in X-files as Mr. X and Jason Goes To Hell Creighton Duke. He also stated in LA Heat with a lead role as Detective Brooks. More recently was in the IT remake.

Whats Next?

Next up, we'll be discussing the episodes “Nothing but the Truth” and “Greed for a Pirate's Dream” which originally aired as episodes 14 & 15.

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RW292 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

In this episode of our A Nightmare on Elm Street Rewatch, Cory and Nathan are hitting a high as they discuss "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors."

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When Taryn is first seen in the hallway, she's wearing a Dokken shirt

Dokken - Dream Warriors

Wes Craven had nothing to do with the first sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge(1985), as he didn't believe that Elm Street was capable of spawning a franchise. The success of the second film, outgrossing the original, convinced him otherwise. The original premise of the film involved Freddy invading the real world and haunting the actors and crew responsible for the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" films. This idea was rejected by the studio, though Wes Craven later used it for Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994).

Chuck Russell made his directorial debut with this movie, but the script he and Frank Darabont delivered called for a twenty million dollar budget to pull off the effects, even though they only had four and a half million dollars. The result was an incredibly tense set, not a particularly ideal setting for Patricia Arquette to make her film debut. On her first day of filming, the production was already so behind, they didn't get to her scenes until 4 a.m., by which point she had forgotten her lines. It took fifty-two takes of her feebly making her way through it before they simply fed her the lines via cue cards behind the camera. Arquette has stated it wasn't a pleasant experience for her, while Russell said he may have pushed her too hard.

For one week during filming, Robert Englund was working twenty-four hours every day. By day, he was wrapping up filming on his television series Downtown (1986), and then would report to the A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) set at nights.

This is the first movie in which the main antagonist is called by the name "Freddy" Krueger. In the first two films, he is called "Fred" Krueger.

Robert Englund improvised quite a few of Freddy Krueger's one-liners, but the best-known example happened in this movie, in a scene where Freddy emerged from a television set and killed a girl by smashing her head into it. For this scene, his line in the script was "This is it Jennifer, your big break on TV!" Robert Englund said this line for the first two takes, but on the third take, when Chuck Russell went for an alternate angle shot, Robert Englund changed it to "Welcome to Primetime, bitch!" Chuck Russell couldn't decide which version to use, so he edited the two together. The different camera angles made it easy to edit the two lines together, and it became probably Freddy's defining one-liner.

Robert Englund admits that he knew Patricia Arquette would go on to be a big star one day. He also explains how all of the guys on the set were heels over head in love with her. Between takes, some of them would even go to Robert Englund to get his advice on whether or not he thought they had a chance with her, and should ask her out.

Ken Sagoes stated in an interview he really didn't want to audition for the role of Kincaid, but his agent talked him into going. On the day of the audition, he walked in heavy rain to catch a bus to the location. He showed up completely drenched and had to sit and wait for a few hours, due to the auditions running late. When it was his turn, Director Chuck Russell told him, "Do whatever you want to do". Sagoes was so frustrated and mad about the whole ordeal that he yelled "FUCK YOU!", and then proceeded to scream and curse out Russell. Russell immediately hired him.

Whats Next?

Up next, Cory and Nathan go down the rabbit hole of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The The Dream Master."

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RW291 - SeaQuest Rewatch S01E10-11 - Regulator West

In this weeks episode of The SeaQuest Rewatch, Cory and Tom have crazy theories and mine the depths as they discuss season 1 episode 10 & 11 "The Regulator" and "SeaWest."

The Regulator:

A malfunction on the Seaquest results in Krieg having to go outside official channels to a man named The Regulator in order to get it fixed. When he comes aboard, his pet chimp runs off and as a result, the Regulator ends up seeing Darwin talking to Lucas and Westphalen and is fascinated. Bridger shows up and reveals that he knows the man by a different name: Leslie Farina. Bridger orders him off his ship, to which Leslie complies, but not before his chimp steals Crocker's stun gun. Crocker goes off in pursuit but Bridger says a chase isn't worth the time and to let him go.

Meanwhile, Lucas, enthralled with The Regulator's demeanor and attitude, begins showing his own rebelliousness, especially when he discovered Darwin has gone off and isn't responding to his calls. Bridger informs the crew about Leslie's past as a brilliant but ultimately disgraced scientist after trying to implant gills on a mammal, leaving him to fake his own death to escape the taunts of his peers. Since then, Leslie has been working on the theory of circular evolution, trying to find the center of the universe.

Seeing Lucas's fascination with Leslie, Bridger tracks Leslie down and boards the ship, revealing to Lucas that he did in fact kidnap Darwin, hoping he would reveal the center of the universe to him. Darwin is let go while Lucas shows Leslie how Darwin learned to talk, and reveals the answer to where the centre of the universe is: inside himself.

Send Out the WSKRS:

The Regulator was played by John Bedford Llyod. He starred in The Abyss as Jammer Willis. This is sideways referenced in this episode when he mentions Duke University, where they were working on a way for people to breathe water. He was also in The Bourne Supremacy and Supertroopers as the Mayor. More recently he was in a couple of episodes of Gotham as General Wade and is currently focusing on stage work and audiobooks. Side Note: The rat in The Abyss actually breathes underwater. Rats require less oxygen than humans and there isn’t enough oxygen present in water for a human to survive.

Mars was played by Andre Dukes. This is his third appearance as Mars, first seen in Games, and then Brothers and Sisters. He was also in a movie called Ricochet and an episode of In Living Color.

Olden was played by Hani Naimi (credited as Michael Desante). He’s done other work on Legion and X-Men Days of Future Past as a voice/ADR actor.

Mr. Nayeer (Nyeir) is the guy on the help desk. He is not credited on IMDb.

Ava Dupreee is credited as Non-Com. Not sure who that would be, possibly the voice over artist while on hold?

There's also Tody Bernard credited as Charles Butch, the supervisor. He’s had a small handful of bit parts. He died in 2013 at 64. 

The Deep Sea Ecologist mentions the hemosponge, and has a relationship to the research through his wife, whose landlord was the lead researcher at Duke. 

SeaQuest DSV The Regulator - Leslie Farina Action Figure

Lucas Wolenczak SeaQuest DSV Action Figure by PlayMates

SeaWest:

The Seaquest responds to a distress signal coming from an underwater mining town known as Broken Ridge but upon arriving they see very little signs of distress. While Krieg, Crocker and Bridger begin looking around the old west themed town, asking questions, a man approaches Ford and starts a fight with him, managing to tell him secretly that he is the one that sent the call for help. The local law is a man named Frank Cobb who assures the Seaquest crew that the man who started the fight, Lenny Sutter, will be dealt with and strongly encourages them to leave. 

As the crew heads back, they discover that Lenny's son smuggled his dog onto their vessel with a message asking them to please help his father. A plan is devised to have Hitchcock go undercover as a desperate singer looking for work in order to find the Sutter family and figure out a way to help them escape.

Back on the Seaquest, Lucas, Westphalen and Bridger discover that Lenny's father was once the owner of the town, in sharp contrast to the way Cobb treated Lenny. Hitchcock finds the Sutters and learns the rest of the story: that Cobb killed Lenny's father and took over the town, only keeping them alive to sign the papers needed for selling whatever they mine, a requirement since the land is still under the Sutter family's claim. That claim, however, is soon to expire, which means Cobb won't need them anymore, making the case to get them out of there as soon as possible. 

As Seaquest readies a rescue, Hitchcock distracts Cobb with a song and dance, while the Sutters' escape. Unfortunately, Krieg is seen by Cobb and the jig is up. Everyone luckily gets and on the ship and escape except for Ford who stayed behind to make sure they couldn't be followed but was captured by Cobb. 

A trade is proposed: the Sutters for Ford. Bridger agrees and they return to Broken Ridge but he lays out some new information on Cobb and the town: no one in the UEO associated countries will buy any gold mined from Broken Ridge, effectively making the gold worthless. Cobb realizes he has no recourse and prepare to fire but Ford, having procured a gun from the Sutters' son, fires first, leading Cobb to make a run for it. 

Lenny stops Cobb's escape and the two duke it out with Lenny winning the day, leaving Cobb a broken man, no longer in charge of the town or the townspeople's respect.

Send Out the WSKRS:

The name of the Australian undersea mining colony for this episode is "Broken Ridge". This probably came from a blending of the names of two famous real-life Australian mining towns, Broken Hill and Lightning Ridge.

Lenny was played by David Morse from The Hurt Locker, Green Mile, World War Z and the father in Contact with Jodie Foster. Recently he was in The Gettysburg Address as Abaraham Lincoln, with Cary Elwes, Sam Elliot, Delbert Mulroney and Matthew Broderick. He was also in the John Adams miniseries as George Washington, a lead in St Elsewhere, Disturbia with Shia LeBeouf and Twelve Monkeys.

Cobb was played by David McCallum. He was in 380 episodes of NCIS as Donald Mallard, a role originated in the Donald P. Bellisario show Jag. He’s had a prominent role in The Six Million Dollar Man movie, was Professor Plum in Cluedo, and was a lead in the TV shows The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Invisible Man. He plays the voice of Alfred in some of the DC Animated Universe movies, as well as various other cartoon voice over gigs. Also, he was the lead in Sapphire and Steel; A special force of interdimensional operatives protect the universe from evil forces trying to gain a foothold by disrupting the timeline. They are assigned to cases, materialise on Earth as humans, and then solve the problems (eg. people trapped in photographs, ghosts lost in time). 

He’s also an accomplished musician. The best known of his pieces today is "The Edge", which was sampled by Dr. Dre as the intro and riff to the track "The Next Episode", "M.I.A" by Missin' Linx, and "No Regrets" by Masta Ace. McCallum's version of "The Edge" appears on the soundtrack to the 2017 film Baby Driver. McCallum did not sing on these records, as many television stars of the 1960s did when offered recording contracts. As a classically trained musician, he conceived a blend of oboe, English horn and strings with guitar and drums, and presented instrumental interpretations of hits of the day.

Ethan Glazer played the son. He played Young Mark in Free Enterprise starring William Shatner and Erik McCormack. 

Buck was played by David Correia. We’ve seen him in the Sliders episode Slither as a customs official.

The Deep Sea Ecologist has a degree in deep sea mining, and explains that mining is actually going to look like a bunch of massive robots controlled by aircraft carriers, targeting underwater ores and minerals or even giant dredges working across the ocean floor destroying everything in its path. "Deep-sea mining is targeting some of the richest, most biodiverse regions of the seafloor, including the rare and wonderful deep-sea hydrothermal vents." Not enough studies yet to determine the effects of such operations in the sustainably of the ocean.

The song sung by Hitchcock at Broken Ridge is I Never Fool Nobody But Me by Irma Thomas (The Soul Queen of New Orleans). Not sure if it was actually Stacey Haiduk singing in the episode, but she is a trained musician and a 2nd soprano so it is likely her. 

Whats Next?

Next up, we'll be discussing the episodes “Photon Bullet” and “Better Than Martians” which originally aired as episodes 12 & 13.

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RW290 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

In this episode of our A Nightmare on Elm Street Rewatch, Cory and Nathan want the body and the brain as they discuss "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge."

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In 1985, the film opened in 614 theaters, making $2.9 million in its opening weekend, coming in fourth place. In the US, the film made $30 million on a budget of $3 million.

Wes Craven refused to work on this film because he never wanted or intended to have A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) become an ongoing franchise (and even wanted the first film to have a happy ending). He also didn't like the idea of Freddy manipulating the protagonist into committing the murders. 

Rather than continue the story of the first film's sole survivor Nancy, this movie focuses on the new residents of Nancy's old Elm Street house, joining a grand tradition of horror sequels which ignore the survivors of the prior installment for what would appear to be cost-control reasons. Langenkamp told the Never Sleep Again documentary that she was never actually offered a chance to do this movie, and the film's Line Producer couldn't recall if there had ever actually been any internal discussions at New Line Cinema about bringing her back. It has been hypothesized that David Chaskin and Jack Sholder's new concept of Freddy (possessing someone in the real world vs. killing them in their dreams) seemed so different from the first film, that bringing Nancy back wouldn't make a lot of sense

Had this film failed, New Line Cinema might not have survived. The movie hit big enough to finally give the studio some cash flow, and in the following years, New Line Cinema rode the Elm Street train to further success, had a hit with another horror franchise (Critters (1986)), cranked out John Waters' movies, and turned into both a respectable and profitable mini-major during the 90s. However, all of that was uncertain back when this film was being made. Studio head Robert Shaye micromanaged every aspect of the production, regularly confusing crew members by stepping over the line and offering orders which should have come from the director. That led to an understandably uneasy relationship between Shaye and Jack Sholder. On top of this, the production was remarkably rushed, slotted for a November 1, 1985 release date, when the first film had only been released on November 9 of the previous year. As a result, tensions were high, the hours were long, and the work was hard. There was no real time to stop and second guess the direction of the franchise. In the Never Sleep Again documentary, Robert Englund recalls several moments during filming, such as the pool sequence where Freddy appears to teenagers outside of their dreams, where he struggled with playing the part, because so much of it felt like it was going against the rules set in the first instalment. 

This film takes place in 1986, 5 years after the original. Though filmed and released in 1984 the original takes place in 1981, the year Wes Craven wrote the script. 

This film is famous for having undertones and themes that many perceive as homoerotic, and the events of the film are often seen as an allegory for Jesse's closeted homosexuality. While the makers of the film initially denied that this subtext was intentional, Screenwriter David Chaskin eventually admitted that the subtext was intentionally written into the script, in order to give the characters more depth. 

The film was extremely well-received in Europe, as residents of those countries caught (and loved) the sexual overtones. This overseas popularity is what convinced producers that they had a profitable franchise on their hands. 

Mark Patton, an openly gay actor, has amusingly stated that he sees himself as the "first male scream-Queen", due to a combination of factors, including the film's homoerotic subtext, the fact that he was often depicted on-screen screaming "like a girl", and because he viewed the character as a closeted gay man. 

The dance scene was meant as an homage to Risky Business (1983). Sensing impending embarrassment, Mark Patton didn't actually want to do it, forcing the production to repeatedly postpone the filming of the scene. It was initially stated in the Never Sleep Again documentary that Patton figured out his own choreography, told the filmmakers to roll the camera, and he'd give it his best shot. Patton later changed his story, telling WithoutYourHead, "There's nothing I do in that movie that's not written in the script. If you look in the script, it says, 'Jesse bumps his ass against the door three times and gets on the bed and pretends to masturbate.' It's all written in the script. I didn't make that stuff up." While the scene has haunted some of the involved parties for years, Patton says it enjoyed an extended popularity at gay clubs at the time, and he no longer finds it embarrassing. 

Michael J. Fox was considered for the role of Jesse Walsh, but was unable, due to his commitments to Back to the Future (1985) and Teen Wolf (1985). 

New Line Cinema originally refused to give Robert Englund a pay raise, and an extra was cast as Freddy at the start of production. After two weeks of filming,Robert Shaye realized this was a terrible lapse in judgment, and met Englund's demands.  

In the opening sequence, the bus driver is Robert Englund without the heavy "Freddy Krueger" make-up and his signature clothing. 

Robert Englund has stated that Freddy's Revenge is his least favorite Nightmare On Elm Street movie. 

Robert Rusler auditioned for the role of Ron Grady on the last day of shooting Weird Science (1985). Robert Downey, Jr. drove him to the audition. 

This is the only film in the series not to use Charles Bernstein's original theme, or a variation of it. 

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Up next, Cory and Nathan chase down Freddy in "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors."

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RW289 - SeaQuest Rewatch S01E08-09 - Shadow Water

In this weeks episode of The SeaQuest Rewatch, Cory and Tom face spooks and save kids as they discuss season 1 episode 8 & 9 "Knight of Shadows" and "Bad Water."

Knight of Shadows:

Bridger finds himself perplexed when his holographic projector first begins speaking coordinates on its own and then shows him a vision of a woman, which is then interrupted by a man who reaches out and throws the Captain across the room. The Seaquest heads to the coordinates and finds an old ship from 1913 that had mysteriously sunk, yet all the passengers and crew were saved except for the captain and chief engineer. Some investigation reveals an old home video made at the launching of the ship which shows the woman Bridger saw, along with the owners of the ship, and the captain, and engineer as well.

Bridger leads a boarding party to the ship and immediately begin seeing unsettling surroundings, including the skeleton of the captain who shows signs of suicide given a gunshot wound to his skull, and a group of skeletons in another part of the ship they determine to be stowaways trapped by the sinking. They also discover that the woman Bridger saw, Lillian, the captain, and engineer survived for a year after the initial sinking through modifications of the ship's generator and engines.

The group is separated from Doctor Westphalen when she is pulled into a room by the spirit of the captain who warns her to leave and flings her across the room, knocking over some furniture, and revealing a diary that says on one page, "I hate him." After seeing that text, the ghost quickly vanishes, allowing Bridger and company to get into the room. However, Westphalen begins exhibiting signs of being possessed by the spirit of Lillian. As they peruse the fallen diary, they learn that Lillian was in love with the engineer, her fiance, while the captain was in love with Lillian. After finding the engineer's remains  they reveal that Lillian blamed the captain for his death, having been fueled by jealousy for a woman who would not love him back.

Westphalen, still under the ghostly influence of Lillian, leads the crew to the Captain's quarters where she collapses, and where they find the door bleeding. Just as before, the crew cannot get through the door, but Lucas, technically a child still and thus possibly immune to spiritual influence, is able to open the door, and enters into what appears to be a raging fire. The Captain's ghost appears and admits his mistakes and wrongdoings, clearly feeling the guilt of his actions, while Lucas convinces him to ask Lillian's ghost for forgiveness so that he may leave the ship and move on to the afterlife.

Meanwhile, Possessed Westphalen has moved to the ballroom and is dancing to the music from the days of the ship while Lillian's skeletal corpse lies nearby. She tells Bridger her spirit is trapped her because of the pain she feels from the loss of her great love and her anger at the captain.

The captain then appears and addresses Lillian, asking for forgiveness and releasing her to be with her love. The spirit of Lillian arises and forgives the captain, walking to join the engineer who welcomes her to the afterlife, but not before both of them beckon to the captain to join them.

Back on board the Seaquest, Bridger reads the captain's log, a confession which reveals the captain caused the ship to sink to try and force Lillian to see her lover as a fraud who designs for the ship were flawed, and also to get back at the owner for forcing him to precede over Lililian's wedding, knowing how much it would hurt him due to his unrequited love. As Bridger bids his wife's now working holographic image goodnight, an unsettling laugh appears out of nowhere as a bad air sensor suddenly turns on (making absolutely no sense whatsoever in the context of the overall story other than as a callback to an earlier scene).

Send Out the WSKRS:

This is the first episode to show the episode title

We’ve seen this episodes director, Helaine Head, before. She direct the Sliders episode “Mother & Child.” (A woman escapes the Kromags with a half human/Kromag child).

The captain was played by John Saint Ryan. He’s had a number to roles over the years, mostly guest spots and supporting actor, working up through 2017. His longest role seems to be a show called Roar, a show featuring Heath Ledger as a young Irish chieftain fighting against Roman encroachment (1997).

Lillian was played by Leslie Hardy who was credited as Beautiful Woman, rather than Lillian. She starred in The Mummy Liveswith Tony Curtis, a low budget PG13 flick from 1993 which was direct to video (this was about the time he was guest starring in Lois and Clark). She’s had a small handful of guest appearances here and there as well.

Both W. Morgan Sheppard and Dick Miller (Gremlins, L&C, Flash '90) died in January of this year.

We found this interesting series of posts. Check out The Deep sea Ecologist Watches Seaquest.

Bad Water:

In an attempt to rescue a downed French submarine filled with children, Westphalen, Ford, Krieg, and Lucas find their craft being destroyed and themselves trapped in a life raft at sea in the eye of an oncoming hurricane. The Seaquest makes the tough decision to try and rescue the downed sub themselves, counting on Ford and company's ingenuity and training to keep themselves safe. 

The task of finding the sub is difficult due to a tremendous amount of interference in the area as well as the location of the sub, a freshwater sinkhole in the sea. Due to the nature and weight of freshwater vs seawater, any ship going in for a rescue runs the risk of being pulled down into the hole itself. 

Meanwhile, Ford and the others in the raft work out various ways to send out their location so that they can be found and rescued. Deep below, the Seaquest sends out a signal amplifier to the surface to try and help their search, but the storm hits it with a bolt of lightning, knocking out not just the amplifier, but all of Seaquest's systems as well leaving the crew to jury rig a work around, giving all of the major stations power for just 30 seconds at a time while they seek out the down sub. 

Eventually the location of the sub is found, but in trying to pull the ship up, the surrounding rocks begin to cave in. Bridger comes up with the idea of purposely breaking the rocks so that seawater will rush in on top of the freshwater and thus give them a bounce upward, allowing them to save themselves and the downed sub from the sinkhole. As the crew celebrates, Officer O'Neill finds Ford's signal and they rush to their rescue, saving the day.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Deep Sea Ecologist: Cargo ships transition from the salty Atlantic to the Great Lakes all the time. That can't sink a sub. 

The “guest stars” of this episode (the teacher, radio woman and dead pilot) have guest starring roles here and there but nothing that stands out really; a few soap opera roles, drama roles, etc.

Whats Next?

Next up, we'll be discussing the episodes "Knight of Shadows" and "Bad Water" which originally aired as episodes 8 & 9.

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