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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