Sincerest Form of Flattery:
An experimental war submarine named The Marauder is accidentally launched when a mistake during a download occurs, setting it off on an attack against Pearl Harbor but luckily there are very few casualties since the launched missiles hit only the combat range areas of the base.
Admiral Noyce contacts Bridger and reveals that the sub is broadcasting one word: his very name of Bridger As the SeaQuest is ordered to search for the Marauder, it begins to attack a second base but Bridger realizes what the sub is doing and is able to warn the personnel to evacuate and get away from the combat range resulting in only two casualties.
Dr Smith senses that Bridger's thought patterns are a part of the sub's AI, and after talking with Noyce, they get confirmation that scans done of the captain years before could have been used in the design of the computer AI.
Now understanding that the sub is following attack patterns that Bridger himself programmed years earlier during simulated war games, they begin to come up with a plan to take down the submarine with Ford giving the commands in the hopes of fooling the sub. The plan ends up failing however as the Marauder tricks them and attaches a nuclear mine to the bottom of the SeaQuest. Bridger contacts the sub and comes face to face with himself, and volunteers to come over and talk, but once aboard, the Marauder takes off and launches its attack on the next base.
Luckily on the Seaquest, Piccolo manages to disable the mine, despite his dyslexia, with help from the crew and Darwin's knowledge of Bridger's secret key code from his safe. Meanwhile, back on the Marauder, Bridger tries to get the AI to realize what it's doing and how he would never launch an attack like this that would kill so many innocents, but the AI is unstoppable until the captain reveals that his son had died. The AI becomes conflicted but eventually relents and disables the missiles it sent, followed by allowing Bridger to escape while it activates its self destruct sequence and destroys itself.
Send Out the WSKRS:
The Aunt was played by Mimi Lieber. She played Kellogg in the SeaQuest episode “The Stinger.” She also played one of Joey's similar looking sisters in an episode of Friends called “The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister.”
Johnathan Mangum played Covington; the annoyed scientist guy in the beginning. Still a working actor, he’s recently been in Glow on Netflix as a few characters, worked as an improv comedian with Drew Carey and Wayne Brady on various projects and appeared on Let's Make A Deal.
Another science guy was played by Steve Purnick. He’s had a bunch of guest spots but had a recurring detective character in The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo with Pat Morita.
One of the soldiers was Paul Vroom who played Yuri in an episode of Thunder in Paradise.
Secretary general McGrath was played by Michael Costello. He first appeared in the alien episode but will be a recurring character for the rest of this season and the next. He’s only got a few handfuls of credit but was a part of something called The Real Adventures of Sherlock
Jones and Proctor Watson in which he played the father Ben Hudson and Proctor Watson.
The News Reporter was Elizabeth Rothan and she will return as The Dispatcher next season.
By Any Other Name:
The SeaQuest answers a mayday from an underwater horticulture colony where the inhabitants were experimenting with gene splicing in order to try and create new varieties of underwater plants.
Upon arrival, Brody, Ortiz, Henderson and some red shirts explore the colony and find no living creatures aside from the very abundant plant life. With nothing to see, everyone returns back to the Seaquest save the two red shirts who remain behind in case the colonists are in hiding and someone does show up.
Meanwhile, Bridger is trying to get an apparently sick Darwin back to full health. Out of ideas, he asks Dr. Smith to try and do a reading on him resulting in them all realizing that Darwin just needs access to sunlight. Making some adjustments to the shops lighting controls allows them to simulate the sun and Darwin begins feeling better, and knows now that he will need to leave Seaquest from time to time to soak up the rays.
Back in the colony, the red shirts find themselves being played with by the plants that seem to be able to move their branches and roots around, attacking them. Back on Seaquest, Henderson also finds herself under attack from a pair of flowers she brought back from the colony that now seem to have grown to monstrous proportions.
Ford orders Brody and his team back to the colony after the red shirts call to report in while the plant onboard begins attacking all over the ship, eventually crippling it and taking it down deeper into the ocean. As Brody and crew fend off attacking plants, waiting for the Seaquest to finish repairs and retrieve them, Bridger discovers that the sun light they created for Darwin will kill the plant onboard but before they can use that to their advantage, the plant attacks their system controls and power is cut.
Brody is ordered to access the environmental controls for the colony and turn up the sunlight, a task made difficult due to the plants blocking him, but he eventually manages to break through, killing the killer plants. Back onboard the Seaquest, unable to use the computer to blow the ballasts and get the ship up to the surface, Dagwood uses his strength to manually move them and the ship rises, allowing sunlight in to the ship, and destroying the ghastly greens.
Send Out the WSKRS:
The WSKRS are down to ⅓ of their power!
The soldiers on Brody’s team (the redshirts in the initial landing party) and the scared colonists at the beginning; all of them have virtually no credits of any great significance, only a few guest roles here and there and that's it.
George Colangelo played the colonist and WAS a guest actor in The Mystery Files Of Shelby Woo. For one episode.
Michael Deeg played Trigg and he appeared in a Troma studios movie called Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD.
Whats Next?
Next up, we'll be discussing “When We Dead Awaken” & “Special Delivery."
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