Episode
seaQuest DSV: Treasures of the Tonga Trench
Overview
As the seaQuest undergoes inspection, Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg has a close encounter with an unknown life form while in a seaCrab in the Tonga Trench. When the creature lets him go, Krieg discovers a treasure trove of mysterious glowing stones; stones that may mean big money. However, is the bigger threat to seaQuest the greed that overtakes the crew or the unknown life form?
Details
- Series
- seaQuest DSV
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1993-10-10
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Treasures of the Tonga Trench is Episode 5 in Season 1 of seaQuest DSV. It aired on 1993-10-10. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 4: Games
Mass murderer Dr. Rubin Zellar is unwittingly taken aboard the seaQuest.
Placing him in custody, Zellar is able to escape and informs Bridger that he's hidden a toxin frozen in ice somewhere aboard the ship... a toxin that is surely melting with each passing second.
Episode 6: Brothers and Sisters
The seaQuest is ordered to entomb a munitions depot thought to be abandoned.
However, when the crew discovers children living inside, Bridger must convince them to follow him to safety.
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Episode 3: Treasures of the Mind
The seaQuest discovers the lost Library of Alexandria sunken beneath the sea.
However, when surrounding nations cannot agree on a peaceful way to share the discovery, Bridger must act as mediator before escalating tensions result in the destruction of the library.
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 2: The Devil's Window
While investigating a black smoker, Darwin becomes seriously ill.
Bridger must contemplate setting his long-time aquatic pal free in order to save his life.
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 1: To Be or Not to Be
Captain Nathan Bridger is hauled out of retirement to command the new submarine SeaQuest, under the authority of the United Earth/Oceans Organization.
His ship goes up against pirate forces commanded by Marilyn Stark, a former SeaQuest captain who tried to instigate a war.
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 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 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 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 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.