RW324 - James Bond Rewatch - Goldfinger

In this episode of the James Bond 007 Rewatch, Cory and Nathan face a formidable foe as they discuss "Goldfinger."

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The Music of Goldfinger:

Our Favourite Trivia:

Goldfinger had what was then considered a large budget of $3 million, the equivalent of the budgets of Dr. No and From Russia with Love combined, and was the first Bond film classified as a box-office blockbuster. Goldfinger was chosen with the American cinema market in mind, as the previous films had concentrated on the Caribbean and Europe.

Sir Sean Connery never travelled to the United States to film this movie. Every scene in which he appears to be in the U.S. was filmed at Pinewood Studios outside London. This explains why Bond flips a light switch down to discover the golden corpse of Jill, as British light switches are generally turned on by flicking them down instead of up.

Gert Fröbe spoke very little English, so British actor Michael Collins dubbed his voice. Director Guy Hamilton instructed Fröbe to speak his lines (in German) quickly, which would assist the dubbing.

The producers wanted Orson Welles to play Auric Goldfinger, but Welles was too expensive.

The role of Oddjob was the first screen role for Japanese-American weightlifter and professional wrestler Harold Sakata. It was such a success that it started a second career in movies, television, and commercials. For some of these appearances, he would be billed as "Harold "Oddjob" Sakata". He also appeared in Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966), which was based on an Ian Fleming story and directed by Bond director Terence Young. 

Sir Sean Connery hurt his back during the fight sequence with Harold Sakata (Oddjob) in Fort Knox. The incident delayed filming, and some say that Connery used the injury to get a better deal out of the producers for the next 007 movie.

Worried studio executives from United Artists considered changing the name of Pussy Galore to Kitty Galore. The name Pussy Galore was not included on any trading cards during the movie's original release, as they were aimed at youth. However, later released cards such as those as part of the "007 Spy Files" in 2002 do specify the name "Pussy Galore". 

The opening credit sequence was designed by graphic artist Robert Brownjohn, featuring clips of all the James Bond films thus far projected on Margaret Nolan's body. Its design was inspired by seeing light projecting on people's bodies as they got up and left the cinema.

First appearance of a laser beam in a movie. In the original script, the scene had a spinning buzzsaw (as in the novel) until it was decided that such an image had become commonplace and unoriginal. 

Though he had been considered for, but never appeared in a Bond movie, Sir Michael Caine was the first person to hear the completed score for this movie. After he and roommate Terence Stamp were ejected from their apartment, Caine asked friend John Barry if he could use the spare bedroom at Barry's London residence. As they were good friends, Barry agreed and so for several months, Caine crashed with Barry and was there the sleepless night he completed his iconic score. At breakfast the following morning, Barry played his composition for Caine, the first time he'd performed it for anybody. 

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After a bit of a rights issue, they finally got to make "Thunderball."

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RW323 - SeaQuest Rewatch S03E02-03 - Ice and Water

In this weeks episode of The SeaQuest Rewatch, Cory and Tom are changing the world one sub at a time as they discuss season 3 episodes 2 & 3, "In the Company of Ice and Profit" and "Smoke on the Water."

In the Company of Ice and Profit:

The Deon Corporation hatches a scheme to move an iceberg to the Saudi Arabia desert in order to flood the area and make millions off of their freshwater purification technologies. In order to prevent anyone from destroying the iceberg before they can put their plan into action, the Deon corporation sends a contingent to rescue refugees in the Macronesia territories before dropping them off on the iceberg, reasoning that no one, Captain Hudson included, would attack and destroy the iceberg with innocents on it. 

While the crew clashes with Hudson and his demands for efficiency on the boat, as well as ordering Dagwood off the bridge for being a civilian, the SeaQuest arrives at the iceberg and board it, quickly coming under fire from the refugees and beat a hasty retreat but not before Lucas recognizes one of the them as his old friend from the SeaQuest Lt. Benjamin Krieg. 

Ford comes up with a plausible theory about why the refugees were left there while Lucas goes back to the iceberg and appeals to Krieg, convincing him to bring everyone aboard the SeaQuest. Dagwood asks Hudson about enlisting in the navy so that he may continue to serve aboard SeaQuest and be admitted onto the bridge and missions, showing off his great strength in Hudson’s quarters as he hits the wall and causes pictures to fall to the floor. 

The refugees make it to the SeaQuest but unfortunately one of them is Deon’s right hand man, Mason Freeman, is undercover, and he manages to get the drop on Hudson, holding him at gunpoint so he will order the SeaQuest to move the iceberg to Saudi Arabia. Hudson luckily is able to create a distraction thanks to Dagwood’s earlier strength audition and the intruder is beaten and subdued. As Hudson orders ford to send Mason back to Deon so he knows that even though he sent his best man, he still failed, Dagwood receives a proper service uniform, cementing his official position as part of the SeaQuest crew.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Larry Deon was played by Tim DeKay. He’s best known as “Bizarro Jerry” from Seinfeld. 

Mason Freeman was played by Ralph Wilcox who we’ve seen in “When We Dead Awaken.” He had a period of not acting around 2000-2015. More recently he was in Black Lightning and Atlanta. He also played in a movie called MegaForce starring Barry Bostwick. 

Smoke on the Water:

When haulers begin to go missing with no explanation, the SeaQuest is sent into help. Although Hudson has an idea of how to begin their investigation, the woman in charge of the outpost responsible for assigning the haulers, Elaine Morse, turns out to be the captain’s ex-fiancée and has her own ideas of what should be done first instead. 

While the SeaQuest acts as a bodyguard for the haulers over the next three weeks, the crew earn some shore leave, save for Lucas who finds himself running diagnostics manually after Hudson discovered he tried to pawn the job off on an unqualified Piccolo. Dagwood has also had an eventful shore leave as he found a community of daggers and has become fond of one in particular named Rachel who wants him to stay instead of returning to duty, trying to convince him he belongs with his own kind. Hudson allows Dagwood a few more days to get his affairs in order but warns him that if he doesn’t return, he will become a deserter and subject to arrest if he ever goes to a UEO controlled area. 

As SeaQuest begins to leave the station, another hauler is attacked but Hudson intervenes and the pirates are captured and imprisoned. Elaine argues that something isn’t right because the pirates showed up on their sensors while in the previous attacks the sensor reasons did not detect anything. Lucas suggests sending a decoy hauler with tracking devices set and Hudson and Elaine board it and set off. 

Hudson and Elaine slowly begin to settle into their old familiar groove but are interrupted when a giant ship appears and swallows their hauler whole, cutting off their signal. They are taken prisoner and the person revealed to be behind the hauler swallowing ship is Dustin Thaw, an employee of Deon Corporation, who was attacking the haulers in order to collect on the insurance money. On their way to a cell, Hudson and Elaine kiss each other, which distracts the guards, allowing them to then knock them out and take over the ship. Luckily the SeaQuest shows up just in time as Lucas, acting on a tip from Darwin, has found the Captain's location by tracking the warm water left behind in the giant ship’s wake. 

Elaine leaves the boat, despite Hudson's obvious desire to try and rekindle things, and Dagwood returns to the Seaquest, content to be among his kind: his friends on the Seaquest.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Elaine was played by Patricia Charbonneau. She was a solid supporting actress throughout the 80’s and 90’s and had some in the 2000s. She was in Robocop 2 as an uncredited technician as well as a recurring guest star in a couple of police procedurals in the 80’s. Her first role was as a main character in MysteryDisc: Many Roads To Murder. 

Holly Gagnier played Rachael. She’s a working actress today. She has recently appeared in Die For A Dollar and A Kiss On Candy Cane Lane. She played a large number of supporting roles over the last 20 years. She was also in Free Enterprise as Laura Hofferman, Baywatch season 1 as Gina Pomeroy, as well as 50some episodes of Days of Our Lives and the Sarah Jessica Parker led movie Girls Just Want To Have Fun. 

Dustin Thaw was played by Brett Rice. He’s a huge supporting actor still working today. He was in Burn Notice, NCIS, True Blood, Longmire, Super 8 (sheriff) and Insatiable. We have seen him as a UEO guard in “Dagger Redux.” He was a father in the TV movie Shake Rattle and Roll and played Commander Haley in the 2006 pilot of Aquaman (with Justin Hartley).

Timothy Bass played Cash. He also played in the episode “And Everything Nice” as the Detective.

The dispatcher was played by Elizabeth Roth who was in “The Sincerest Form of Flattery” as a reporter; the AI Bridger goes haywire episode. 

The female hauler was working actress Avis-Marie Barnes and most recently was a recurring character in Greenleaf, Stranger Things and Lodge 49. 

Jim R. Coleman was a tech in this episode but was also various voices in the Dagwood accused of murder episode.

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“Destination Terminal” & “Chains of Command”

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RW322 - James Bond Rewatch - From Russia With Love

In this episode of the James Bond 007 Rewatch, Cory and Nathan outwit their opponents as they discuss "From Russia With Live."

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The Music of From Russia With Love:

Our Favourite Trivia:

Following the financial success of Dr. No, United Artists greenlit a second James Bond film. The studio doubled the budget offered to Eon Productions with $2 million, and also approved a bonus for Sean Connery, who would receive $100,000 along with his $54,000 salary.

Most of the crew from the first film returned, with major exceptions being production designer Ken Adam, who went to work on Dr. Strangelove and was replaced by Dr. No's art director Syd Cain

For the opening credits, Maurice Binder had disagreements with the producers and did not want to return. Designer Robert Brownjohn stepped into his place, and projected the credits on female dancers, inspired by constructivist artist László Moholy-Nagy projecting light onto clouds in the 1920s. Brownjohn's work started the tradition of scantily clad women in the Bond films' title sequences.

Hoping for an end to the Cold War, Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman didn't want James Bond's main enemy to be Russian, so for the movie version, his nemesis is the fictitious criminal organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E., seeking revenge for the death of their operative, Dr. No (1962).

Director Terence Young disliked Daniela Bianchi's legs, and used a stand-in for the scene where Bond spies on the Russian embassy in Istanbul with a periscope.

Sir Sean Connery was outfitted for this movie with eight specially tailored Saville Row suits, each one costing approximately two thousand dollars.

The scene in which James Bond and Tatiana Romanova first meet in the hotel suite has since been used as an audition scene for potential Bond actors and Bond girls. This can be seen in the "making of" documentaries for other Bond movies, including Octopussy (1983).

This movie marks the last appearance of the Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson) character, who also appeared in Dr. No (1962). The original plan was for Sylvia to appear in each movie as Bond's regular girlfriend, continually frustrated when Bond is called away for his next assignment. This idea was obviously scrapped.

Vladek Sheybal (Kronsteen the chess master) was a highly regarded Polish actor, and was hesitant to accept a role in a Bond movie because he thought it might not be a good career move. However, his friend Sir Sean Connery persuaded him to sign on, and it helped his career enormously.

The brutal fight in the train compartment between James Bond and Donald "Red" Grant lasts only a few minutes on-screen, but took three weeks to film. Most of it was performed by the actors, rather than doubles.

Desmond Llewelyn appears here as "Q"/Major Boothroyd for the first time. This character was played by Peter Burton in Dr. No (1962). When Burton was unable to return for this movie, Llewelyn was cast in the part. Llewelyn reprised the role of "Q" in sixteen subsequent Bond movies (seventeen performances in all, but he didn't appear in Live and Let Die (1973)). "Q" is referred to by his real name, Major Boothroyd, only in Dr. No (1962), this movie, and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).’

First Bond movie to end with the declaration "James Bond will return in ...", in this case, it was Goldfinger (1964). A tradition that continued until it was used for the last time at the end of Octopussy (1983).

During the helicopter sequence towards the end of the movie, the inexperienced pilot flew too close to Sir Sean Connery, almost killing him.

Behind schedule and over-budget, the production crew struggled to complete production in time for the already-announced premiere date that October. On 6 July 1963, while scouting locations in Argyll, Scotland, for that day's filming of the climactic boat chase, Terence Young's helicopter crashed into the water with art director Michael White and a cameraman aboard. The craft sank into 40–50 feet (12–15 m) of water, but all escaped with minor injuries. Despite the calamity, Young was behind the camera for the full day's work. A few days later, Bianchi's driver fell asleep during the commute to a 6 am shoot and crashed the car. The actress's face was bruised and Bianchi's scenes had to be delayed for two weeks while the facial contusions healed

This movie broke box-office records, and was responsible for launching Sir Sean Connery as a major star, rather than Dr. No (1962).

Steven Spielberg, a noted 007 fan, was convinced to cast Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws (1975) after watching his role in this movie.

Sir Sean Connery called this movie his personal favorite of his Bond movies.

Final James Bond movie viewed by Ian Fleming.

Then-President John F. Kennedy listed Ian Fleming's book as among his top ten favorite novels of all time. That list was published in Life Magazine on March 17, 1961. Possibly as a result, the producers decided to make this the second James Bond movie. According to the book "Death of a President" (1964) by William Raymond Manchester, this was the last movie J.F.K. ever saw, in a private screening in the White House, November 20, 1963.

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Bond faces an iconic foe in "Goldfinger."

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RW321 - SeaQuest Rewatch S03E01 - Brave New World

In this weeks episode of The SeaQuest Rewatch, Cory and Tom face new threats as they discuss the season 3 premier, "Brave New World."

Brave New World:

When we last saw the Seaquest and her crew, it was literally a long time ago in a galaxy far far away while back on earth, ten years passed on with a one Captain Hudson spearheading the search for Seaquest, with the UEO unable to fund the rebuilding of another new advanced ship. Meanwhile, the Macronesian Alliance  under the leadership of President Bourne, began expanding its influence and property, forcefully taking over colonies using special attack subs provided by one of the companies in the taken over lands. Their next step is to attack the Nexus colony, a key point in the middle of the Pacific which would greatly increase Macronesia power.

Strangely enough, Lucas suddenly walks into a meeting of the UEO council, dripping wet and confused. He is taken into custody and questioned but he appears to have no memory of the last ten years as well as what happened to the Seaquest and her crew. Elsewhere Dagwood and Darwin suddenly appear in an aquarium, Brody, ONeil, and Piccolo find themselves in the middle of a casino, wet and confused, while Ford finds himself suddenly waking in the shower, fully clothed, with Henderson waking up in the next room. All are taken into custody but after a medical exam is conducted, it is realized that while it has been ten years for the Earth, from the crew's point of view, it has only been a week. 

Also appearing suddenly is the Seaquest itself, somehow inexplicably found in a cornfield. Hudson takes command with the rest of the crew joining him in order to try and defend the Nexus colony. Their attempt however is interrupted by the arrival of Lucas who had somehow escaped custody, commandeered a UEO sub, and tracked down and found Bridger. Hudson orders the Seaquest to leave Nexus to recover Lucas and Bridger, while the Macronesian Alliance easily takes over the colony.

Bridger orders Brody and Ford to sneak into the colony and capture Bourne, which they do easily, forcing the president's hand into ordering his ships out of the colony and allowing the UEO to retake Nexus, while Bourne relinquishes his control and escapes. 

Bridger reveals that it was he who had erased the Seaquest's memory banks, after they all had fallen into a coma after helping the Hyperion rebels in their civil war. The rebels managed to find a way to return them all to Earth, Seaquest included, and manipulated the crew's memories so they had no knowledge of their part in the war. Unfortunately, several crewmembers, including Doctor Smith and Ortiz, were killed during the war. Bridger also reveals that upon his appearance back on Earth, he was presented with a grandson, indicating that his son apparently did not die when it was thought he did and he decides to leave the service in order to raise the child and search for his family.

Lucas then apologizes to Hudson for the comments and attitude when he was first found and confronted by him and asks to officially enlist in the service in order to stay aboard Seaquest.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Elise Neal played Lt. J.J. Fredricks. She has had some mainstream success in movies such as Scream 2 and Logan (as Kathryn Munson), and guest spots on shows such as Scandal, Mission To Mars, and The Cape. She was also a lead in the show The Hughleys. Today, she mostly stars as a lead in a large amount of primarily African American cast movies.

Michael York played President Bourne. We’ve seen him before in the Sliders episode “This Slide Of Paradise” as Dr. Vargas. He played Logan in Logan’s Run, and Basil Exposition in Austin Powers, and was in the original film adaptation of Island of Dr Moreau. 

Damon Jones returns! He was the bartender in “When We Dead Awaken” and is Lt. Marrs this episode. 

Karen E. Fraction was in the Dagwood murder episode. Here she plays Dr. Perry. 

One of the bridge crew was Debbie Lane and she works as a driver on some big movies, including Captain Marvel, Knives Out, Iron Man 3 and Dirty Dancing among others. 

Michael Ironside played Captain Hudson. His biggest roles are arguably Total Recall, Top Gun, Scanners and Starship Troopers, but he has a long and varied career in all types of movies and TV shows. More recently, he appeared in an episode of the CW Flash as the father of Captain Cold, voiced Darkseid in DC Supervillains Video Game and the Justice League Animated Series and he also played General Sam Lane in Smallville.

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“In the Company of Ice and Profit” & “Smoke on the Water”

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RW320 - James Bond Rewatch - Dr. No

In this episode of the James Bond 007 Rewatch, Cory and Nathan face their first villain as they discuss "Dr. No."

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The Music of Dr. No:

Our Favourite Trivia:

This was chosen to be the inaugural movie in the James Bond film franchise as the plot of the source novel was the most straightforward. It had only one major location (Jamaica) and only one big special effects set piece.

Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, the original producers of the James Bond movies, cast Sir Sean Connery because they liked how he was a big, tough-looking man who nonetheless moved gracefully ("like a cat").

The budget was only one million pounds sterling, but when costs went over by one hundred thousand pounds sterling, United Artists wanted to pull the plug, fearing it would never make a profit.

The first scene Sir Sean Connery filmed as James Bond is the sequence in the Kingston Airport where he passes a female photographer and holds his hat up in front of his face. The filming date was January 16, 1962.

All of the sets and furniture were slightly smaller than they would be in reality, so that Bond would look larger.

Contrary to popular belief, Sir Sean Connery was not wearing a hairpiece in his first two outings as James Bond. Although he was already balding by the time Dr. No was in production, he still had a decent amount of hair and the filmmakers used varying techniques to make the most of what was left. By the time of Goldfinger (1964), Connery's hair was too thin and so various toupees were used for his last Bond outings.

Sir Sean Connery is morbidly afraid of spiders. The shot of the spider in his bed was done with a sheet of glass between him and the spider, which can be seen in one shot in the movie. When this didn't look realistic enough, additional close-up scenes were reshot with stuntman Bob Simmons. Simmons reported that the tarantula crawling over Bond was the scariest stunt he had ever performed. According to Steven Jay Rubin's 1981 book "The James Bond Films", this tarantula was named "Rosie".

Maurice Binder designed the gun barrel opening at the last minute, by pointing a pinhole camera through a real gun barrel. The actor in the sequence is not Sir Sean Connery, but stuntman Bob Simmons. Connery didn't film the sequence until Thunderball (1965).

It is a long standing misconception that John Barry wrote "The James Bond Theme". It actually originated from a song, "Good Sign, Bad Sign" composed by Monty Norman, from an aborted musical, "The House of Mr. Biswas". Barry arranged and orchestrated Norman's theme to produce the theme as it is known throughout the world.

Ian Fleming didn't originally like the casting of Sir Sean Connery as James Bond. Bond was English, and Connery was Scottish, Bond was from an upper-class background, and Connery came from a working-class background, Bond was refined and educated, and Connery was too rugged. After seeing this movie, Fleming softened and decided that Connery was perfectly cast. In the novel "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", Bond was revealed to have Scottish ancestry

The armorer who gives Bond his Walther PPK at the start of the movie is Major Boothroyd, who in the next movie, From Russia with Love (1963) was played by Desmond Llewelyn. Beginning with Goldfinger (1964), the "armorer" would forever be known as "Q" (for "Quartermaster").

Author Ian Fleming wanted his cousin Sir Christopher Lee to play the role of Dr. No. (Lee appeared as Francisco Scaramanga in the Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), and would play the character that inspired Fleming to create Dr. No, Dr. Fu Manchu, in several movies.)

After viewing this movie, James Bond creator Ian Fleming reportedly described it as being, "Dreadful. Simply dreadful."

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Bond send his regards "From Russia with Love"

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RW319 - SeaQuest Rewatch S02E20-21 - Blind Splash

In this weeks episode of The SeaQuest Rewatch, Cory and Tom outrun the unseen to far away places as they discuss season 2 episodes 20 & 21, "Blindsided" and "Splashdown."

Blindsided:

When Eddie, an old cell mate of Piccolo’s has a sudden problem with his gills, both he and Piccolo are sent off for a check-up to make sure everything is ok. On the way however, Eddie hijacks the plane they are on, wanting to have his freedom since he was sent back to prison for a crime in which a military police officer died. The plane crashes in the jungles belonging to The South American Confederation, a country that is in the UEO but is suspected of not being on the up and up about their scientific and weapons research. While the two try to get their bearings, Eddie lets Piccolo know he was incarcerated because he accepted a plea deal in order to cover up the real person behind the crime, an admiral’s son, and once said son was out of trouble, Eddie was given the shaft and sent to prison for much longer than he was supposed to be. 

As Piccolo listens, an invisible force suddenly sweeps in and grabs Eddie, carting him off. Piccolo tried to follow but his weapons have no effect on the invisible being save rendering it temporarily visible for a moment before disappearing as the confederation shows up  and arrests Piccolo for being behind enemy lines. 

Bridger and company watch a staged recording of Piccolo admitting to spying on Colon under Bridger’s orders, and discuss how to solve the situation with the Secretary General. In the end, they decide to send in the best of SeaQuest to break Piccolo out. Ford, Brody, Henderson and Ortiz come upon the invisible being and despite all of them firing on it full force at the same time, it barely makes a scratch on the creature and it runs off. The following break in goes well but once inside they discover Piccolo has managed to escape from his cell and within seconds alarms go off and the crew is discovered and imprisoned, leading Colon to threaten Bridger and the UEO.

Meanwhile, Piccolo, trying to find a way out overhears Colon and his men discussing Eddie who somehow survived his encounter with what they call The Prototype, a creature they created but lost control of. Colon orders his men to study Eddie and experiment on him to see if they can replicate the gills procedure for themselves. 

Piccolo discovers inert beings that look similar to the invisible being and hacks a computer to get in touch with Lucas for his expert help. Elsewhere, Ford and company are surprised when something begins attacking the guards and then rips the door from their cell, as the invisible being appears and reveals that he is being controlled by Piccolo who has learned how to control the suits via a VR remote control. The crew wants to escape back to their ship but Piccolo says he needs to find Eddie, and with their help, they rescue him, taking down Colon in the process. Piccolo then asks Secretary General McGath to take another look at Eddie’s case, implying that something was not right with his sentence and what happened and he agrees to do what he can.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Colon was played by Juan Fernandez. He’s had many supporting roles, most notable of which are Crocodile Dundee II (Miguel), The Collector (main cast), and La Soga in which he plays a general named Colon.  

There are no IMDb credits given for the general or doctor in this episode.

Eddie’s cellmate was played by Hank Stone. We’ve seen before as Cop #1 in The Flash ‘90 episode “Fast Forward.” He has also appeared in an episode of the Martin Kove series Hard Time On Planet Earth as well as 1995’s The Walking Dead. Most recently he played Jack Frost in Santa Girl (starring Barry Bostwick as Santa).

Splashdown:

When the crew receives a message from their old friend Scott Keller who took off for deep space with alien refugee disguised as human Tobias LaConte, they head for a rendezvous point to find him and are shocked when a giant spaceship appears and pulls the Seaquest up out of the waters and into the alien ship, only to then jump through a wormhole to then be deposited back under waters on an alien planet.

Tobias and two Hyperions meet them and explains that Scott was taken captive by the KrayTaks and Stormers during a civil war between them and the native population of Hyperions. The KrayTaks and Stormers had already attacked the planet by melting their polar ice caps to cause flooding worldwide, killing off the majority of the population and now are using technology to pull a comet off its course to come down and destroy the survivors. The SeaQuest successfully fights off and destroys a KrayTak attack vessel but receives an incoming message showing Scott being held as a prisoner before being executed before their eyes.

Lucas, channeling his inner Han Solo, says he has a bad feeling about this whole thing, that it seems too improvised, or not fitting together right, more alien than it appears and so Bridger orders Piccolo and Darwin to investigate the wreckage, finding the presumed dead man Scott Keller, who explains that everything they have been told has been a lie, that the KrayTaks are the very people that Bridger and crew have been helping, misled by a stormer posing as Tobias, the real one of which was unfortunately recently captured. Realizing they know the truth now, the imposter reveals his true form but is taken out quickly.

Bridger takes a group with him to rescue Tobias, finding him easily, and then setting charges to destroy the ship's reactor core, but their escape is blocked when the Kraytaks appear from one side and begin shooting and  the Stormers appear from the other side to attack as well. 

Meanwhile back on the Seaquest, Ford orders Lucas, Darwin, and Dagwood to take the Stinger and escape while he arms all weapons and prepares to attack the alien ship but their vessel is suddenly heavily damaged by an attacking barrier mine, and sinks, destroyed. 

Back in the alien vessel, the away team's escape shuttle is destroyed leaving Bridger no choice but to order the destruction of the alien ship lest they get away and go to Earth to conquer it next, and thus gives the final command of his life as Lucas and company watch in terror as the day is saved, but at great cost. Later, Lucas and Dagwood find themselves on a life raft, pondering what will be their next move.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Kristy Eisenberg played Ariel. She has three other credits on IMDb and she will reappear in the third season opener as well as another episode called “Reunion.” 

Tom Nowicki played Mithor. He’s still a working actor, most recently appearing in The Glorias; a movie based on feminist Gloria Steinem’s autobiography. He actually works a lot, including a 1994 appearance on an episode of Thunder in Paradise. He also played a coach in Waterboy and Lincoln in the Thomas Jane’s The Punisher. 

The young girl was played by Brittany Snow. She was the young girl Dagwood talked to when he was accused of murder. 

Marisa Vitali was listed as another Hyperion but it’s unclear which character she was in the episode. She is the last one on the cast list so presumably she was more of an extra than a major player.

Whats Next?

Getting into the final season of SeaQuest, we'll be discussing the premier episode “Brave New World."

We've also announced our next 2 rewatch series! We hope you'll join us for the single season of FIREFLY, followed by DAWSON'S CREEK!

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