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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