Episode
seaQuest DSV: Better Than Martians
Overview
The first manned mission to Mars returns home to Earth, led by Commander Scott Keller, an old friend of Bridger's. However, a malfunction during re-entry plunges the capsule into the ocean where a corrupt general from a foreign confederation races to recover the astronauts before the seaQuest can.
Details
- Series
- seaQuest DSV
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1994-01-02
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Better Than Martians is Episode 13 in Season 1 of seaQuest DSV. It aired on 1994-01-02. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 12: Photon Bullet
Feeling isolated, unwanted, and unappreciated aboard the seaQuest, Lucas visits Node Three, a communications colony populated by other teenage computer geniuses.
Node Three is led by legendary computer hacker Martin Clemens, aka. "Mycroft".
However, Lucas soon finds himself caught up in the group's tampering with global finances and tampering's that have more motive than they appear.
Episode 14: Nothing but the Truth
In preparation for an experiment, the crew evacuates the seaQuest, leaving only Commander Ford, Lt. Commander Hitchcock, Lieutenant Krieg, Chief Crocker, and Lucas aboard.
However, environmental extremists use the seaQuest's vulnerable state to seize control of the boat.
More episodes from this season
Episode 11: seaWest
When the seaQuest visits the Broken Ridge mining colony, one of the colonists desperately pleads for the crew's help to escape from a dangerous situation straight out of the Old West.
Episode 15: Greed for a Pirate's Dream
Dr. Raleigh Young's magma buoy launched from the seaQuest months earlier rockets out of the sea and crash lands onto an island.
A group of treasure hunters believe that the UEO is on their way to steal the fortune they hope to find.
Episode 10: The Regulator
When the air conditioning breaks down in the crew quarters, Krieg has no choice but to turn to "The Regulator".
He's a cut-throat black market trader who hides a shamed past with whom Bridger is familiar with and whom Lucas finds he can sympathize with.
Episode 16: Whale Song
When an environmental radical begins to sink whaling ships, the UEO orders Bridger to find the attacker and destroy him.
However, Bridger refuses on moral grounds and resigns as captain of the seaQuest.
Episode 9: Bad Water
Commander Ford, Dr. Westphalen, Lucas and Lieutenant Krieg are trapped on the surface of the ocean as a hurricane rages above them.
Meanwhile, suffering severe damage from a lightning strike, the seaQuest must desperately search for a sunken French submarine before its passengers, all children, run out of air.
Episode 17: The Stinger
Lucas and Lt. Commander Hitchcock enter the seaQuest in a competition to design a revolutionary new kind of single-seat submersible.
However, while testing it, Lucas is fired upon and the sub is captured by a rival developer.
Episode 8: Knight of Shadows
When Bridger is hurled across his quarters by an unknown force, it leads the seaQuest to find a hundred-year-old sunken ship.
The spirits of those who perished there haunt its ancient hull, one of which possesses Dr. Westphalen.
Episode 18: Hide and Seek
While visiting Dr. Westphalen is visiting Malcolm Lansdowne, the two of them are captured by ousted dictator and escaped UEO prisoner Milos Tezlov, who wants Malcolm's dolphins to train for militaristic purposes.
However, when Kristin notices Tezlov's autistic son Caesar taking an extreme liking to dolphins, she forges a deal for her release, granting Tezlov passage aboard the seaQuest.
Episode 7: Give Me Liberte
A virus found on board a sunken space station infects the crew.
As Bridger rushes to find the inventor of the pathogen, a warrior submarine from an opposing confederation arrives to cover up their crimes, even if it means the destruction of the seaQuest.
Episode 19: The Last Lap at Luxury
UEO Secretary General Andrea Dre travels aboard the seaQuest en route to a conference where she invites Lucas to join her to speak out on his work with Darwin.
However, Lucas soon finds himself held hostage along with the leaders of the other UEO confederations.