Episode
seaQuest DSV: The Stinger
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- seaQuest DSV
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1994-02-20
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Stinger is Episode 17 in Season 1 of seaQuest DSV. It aired on 1994-02-20. The runtime is 45 min.
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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 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.
More episodes from this season
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 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.
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.
Episode 20: Abalon
When Commander Ford believes he saw a mermaid at the bottom of the ocean, Captain Bridger orders him to take shore leave.
While on leave, Ford encounters the same woman again and soon finds himself ensnared in a mysterious scientist's unnatural experiment.
Meanwhile, Lucas sneaks away to a party where Julianna and he may go “all the way.”
Episode 13: Better Than Martians
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.
Episode 21: Such Great Patience
The seaQuest makes the biggest discovery in Human history when they discover an alien starship entombed in an undersea rock face; trapped there for over a million years.
When an away team goes inside the ship, they find that they might not be the only thing aboard it.
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 22: The Good Death
When the crew of seaQuest are tricked into torpedoing a refugee ship containing Westphalen's daughter, Dr. Westphalen, Ford, and Shan are trapped trying to save her.
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 23: Higher Power
A brand new power plant which is set to supply energy to the whole world goes wrong and there is a danger of the polar ice caps melting.
Bridger decides he must sacrifice the seaQuest in order to save the world. Meanwhile, Lucas has a reunion of sorts with his father.