SeaQuest DSV 4600 (SeaQuest DSV) - Fleetyards Mission Briefing
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Wow, you guys really needed to have someone who could explain the things of the ship instead of wildly guessing.
The Centre bulb was the auxiliary launch hangar for "Sea Launches" (That's what they called their runabouts). Almost all the stuff including the dedication plaque were fanon and not actually shown on the series.
You didn't even mention the WSKRS which were unique even among shows of the are as remote tethered probes to help the ship see far better.
indeed, the WISKRS were not mentioned
I think Babylon 5 is the only other show that had “remote eyes” like the WSKRS
The word is Hydrodynamic lads,not aerodynamic.
what he said!
Yup, and , DOH!
The reason for this ship's shape is to minimize drag, while containing against the pressures of the water it is swimming in!
lol, caught that too.
My recollection is that Roy Scheider played Captain Bridger. As some point in the series, the Seaquest and it's crew were taken by aliens to another planet. Later in the series they were returned to Earth, but many years had passed. (thus the time skip) The return was very mysterious, but in any event, the ship was updated, and assigned a new Captain, played by Michael Ironside.
Season 3 Michel iron side an haft to say the intro was alot better
@@charlesalmada1016 nooooo the og theme was way better!!
@@lionsprideesports9339 nooooooooooooooo well to each his own right 👍 I like the 3rd intro
I loved seaQuest back when it aired on TV in the 90s and I was just a young lad. Was surprised to see you'd done an episode about it recently. Cool. Enjoyed this and many other episodes of Trekyards and Fleetyards.
Keep an eye out for an easter egg in the show. When William Shatner guest stared, he was communicating through a video screen. And on all the screens, whenever someone communicated, they would have data information on the bottom of the screen, like where they were located, and other abstract numbers that you didn't actually know what they were. When Shatner was on the screen, they had those same random numbers, except his said NCC-1701
Oh man, I must have missed that or forgotten about it!
I should rewatch it ^_^ And make my friends watch it with me
Airwolf also appears in that episode in stock footage.
Yes yes YES!!! My favourite show as a child. I lived and breathed SeaQuest!
Captain Bridger...got a bigger boat. :-)
He sure did.
There should have been an episode in which they were under attack from a shark.
Seaquest was so cool, the last season really changed the dynamics of the world that seaquest was in and got even heavier in the Sci fi and war themes.
I still have to watch season 3 after all these years.
Some Facts to SeaQuest: One of the producers was Steven Spielberg, his visual effects company Amblin did the effects.Amblin also created the 3D model of Voyager.
They wanted to make SeaQuest "like Star Trek, but under water". The first season feels like a rip off of TNG.
The second season dropped the ball with aliens, greek gods and whatnot. The third season with a new captain tried something new with a global war, but just as SeaQuest seemed to get good again, SeaQuest was cancelled.
The SeaQuest features a system of water tubes so that the dolphin can move through the ship. AFAIK Star Trek hat that idea before but couldn't realize it due to budget constraints.
@the commander: I do not believe that they started with a 3D scan. For me the boat feels very much like a prime example of nurbs modelling. The form can easily be described with a couple of curves.
True enough, it seemed too TNG - good show nonetheless. Until Roy Scheider was on the show and Bob Ballard had post-credit scene....it was good.
Now, this feature came from left field.
I never thought this show reached its full potential.
First season was interesting, second season took a hard turn somewhere, third season tried to recover but, came too
late.
I welcome the look at the DSV 4600.
The death of Jonathan Brandis ended the show.
The Orville has the people that worked on Seaquest, thats why ships look similar and both theme songs are composed by the same guy.
Beyond News cool fact that I didn't know
I had no idea! But I am looking forward to Season 2 of The Orville.
I’m just now rewatching seaQuest for the first time in years & I did find myself thinking “this really reminds me of The Orville” upon hearing the opening theme; that explains a lot!
Actually Seaqueast closely resembles a Vorlon design.
the Whitestar was a completely different design alltogether. Vorlon ships were long and cylindrical like the SeaQuest but these types of ships were also used by Species 8472 from Star Trek Voyager.
Both Babylon 5 and Seaquest CGI were done on Amiga computers with Video Toasters / Light Wave.
and id take B5 over STD any day.
It resembles a massive suppository.
@@YurkerYT its modeled after a squid.
I loved Seaquest when I was a kid. You missed what I thought was one of the more original features of the ship though, the Whisker sensors. Instead of having big honking sensors on the ship or relying on a probe for a closer look they had the whiskers orbiting around the ship like satelites round a planet.
Also if you're planning re-watching it be warned, the show hasn't aged well at all.lol
Good point, The Whiskers & the hull texture may have been an influence of the Starship Vengeance too. Which also has moving pieces on the engines, remote drones and a organic looking hull texture.
I sometime think Sam gets resolution muddled in his mind with design or Texture. Take the The Last Starfighter gunstar it has a nice design but not the best lighting or textures as the ability to do that didn't exist when it was made - but if you just add a lighting rig to a very exact model it looks fantastic still.
I contend the SeaQuest is perfect and doesn't need line changed on her any more than a Tie Fighter does ; They got it right the 1st time anything thing else is just tinkering - that is why the 2.0 looks a little odd by changing things that really didn't need changing and ruining the proportions a little (not hugely) but I certainly prefer the smaller impellors
Oh and another thing the ship has is it has it's own deployable surface launch and a Helicopter as well.
And some really cool Dolphin like things that are functionally not unlike a Starfighter that fly under water - using wings and neutral buoyancy - such things now exist in real life - so that much at least did come true. They may have also copied the idea for the sub in The Phantom Menace too.
The lack of WSKRS in the briefing was disappointing, as they're integral to the ship. I find it ages not too badly though, especially nice with the newer bluray version.
The first season aged... mostly well. The clothing is a clear product of the 90's but we'll forgive that. And some of the science/philosophy was 90's crunchy but also forgivable. Honestly, these days, I can do with some good old honest optimism and science love.
Why it didn't age well?
Don't forget the Hyper reality probe. Remember when that one lady controlled the launch with the VR rig that was cool!!
One of the things I remember is that in the last season, there was a timeskip, and things weren't nearly as rosy on Earth any more. There was a lot of fragmentation of nation states, a lot of megacorporations started vying for control, starting their own colonies, etc. SeaQuest became a more militarized ship, carrying subfighters with supercavitation skins that supposedly let them break mach 1 underwater. (though I don't remember that shown)
Interesting, cant remember ... need to take a look at this series again for sure :-)
Sea quest 2032
No, but I wonder what an underwater sonic boom would do in terms of messing up anybody nearby, wrecking electronics (the sonar couldn't enjoy that very much...) etc. Then again, with supercavitation... you're flying through a bubble cloud, so would the shockwave transmit effectively to the water around it? *ponders*
I guess there is no shockwave at all ... remember the russian submarine Kursk? This hole incident was driven around a torpedo with such cavitation technology. I assume that the operation of such device is somewhat practical, not harmful to the operating vessel ... its designated speed figures about 200 to 400 knots (370-740km/h) depending on the stage of development.
Evidence allegedly shows the Kursk was blown up by the US btw ^^
This was after SeaQuest went into space, met Mark Hamill, and came back to land in an Iowa cornfield.
Finaly! Hey, you forget the whiskers and the navigation lights! It's not boring, it's original!
I was gonna say! The WHISKR / WISKR probe/bot thingies! I remember there being three of them that constantly orbited around the SeaQuest and formed an extended sensor suite / platform for the SeaQuest.
The unmanned probes are something I really think Starfleet ships would have as well.
The movable parts on the aft end of the ship are the rudders and elevators that controlled the course and depth of the ship. SeaQuest was one of my favorite shows in the 90's.
Come on, simple design? Its a submarine! it has to deal with water resistance. Most submarines are simple tear drop shaped cylinders because it offers the least water resistance and the greatest resistance against water pressure.
Agreed, I always thought that the design was not particularly hydrodynamically sound. With all of those curves and odd shapes I always thought that it would be, at the least, a very noisy design. Since you mentioned resistance to water pressure, I also think that the design probably has a lot of weak spots where it wouldn't be able to resist water pressure very well.
Yeah but the shell you see on most submarines which includes the noise absorbing tiles and which improves their speed and performance in the water actually hides the internal structure which is a series of pressure cylinders or spheres linked together like modules of a space station, there is actually equalised water pressure beneath the skin and components mounted outside the pressurised compartments beneath the skin so they don't produce drag but as they are not actually pressurised don't worry too much about water pressure. The Seaquest was little different in that beneath her organic outer skin was actually a gaseous atmosphere at a higher pressure than the internal crew space, so it was kind of a graded pressure resistance which did produce issues when the outer skin was pierced and the inner hull exposed to the full external water pressure.
The show had an identity crisis!
The first season was very science/research based, dealing with deep sea discoveries, rendering aid to underwater colonies & research stations, & discovering long-lost submerged artifacts. What I especially liked about the first season was the real science factoid at the end, discussing some element which had appeared in the story. I really missed those in the later seasons!
In season 2, we delved more into the ecologically enlightened world the show was set in, including its conflicts & politics. The first episode introduced us to the G.E.L.F.s: genetically-engineered soldiers designed for superior strength & endurance, whose skin was a mottling of all the colors of humanity, like camouflage print. We learned that they'd been retired, & lived in a prison-like compound, which they resented so much they staged a prison break; & SeaQuest was called in to help hunt the escapees down.
In the same episode, SeaQuest acquired 3 more crewmen of science fiction-y nature: a telepathic doctor, a crewman surgically fitted with experimental gills, & a gentle giant GELF who lacked the aggression his kind were bred for. He was my favorite character, but I've completely gone blank on his name!
The second season favored more science fictional storylines, including aliens, time travel, & other concepts. It ended daringly transplanting SeaQuest & its crew to a distant world to help allies. Rather than continue the extraterrestrial plot as intended in season 3, the show morphed yet again!
Someone, either network or production, didn't like the fantastical elements, & reined it back in. It's years later in the future, Earth is now a dismal place, & the ship & crew are returned in a very unsatisfying manner. Due to the fan popularity of Darwin the "talking" dolphin (with computer help), the gilled man & the gentle GELF, these fantastic characters remained, much to the chagrin of the person who'd re-created the show;...but the doctor was gone, a casualty of the alien war.
The dolphin, Darwin, was a friend of Bridger, who'd created the translation device that let him talk. The "kid" was a brainy teenager a la Wesley Crusher; but he was a computer whiz & bonded with Darwin. Darwin had his own network of flooded tunnels paralleling the ships main gangways, which granted him access throughout the sub.
Dagwood, the GELF's name was Dagwood, the Dagger.
This is entirely correct, and Season 2 is responsible for me writing my first IMDB-review on Episode 5 'Playtime'.
It was such a bad episode that you can tell all the way through that even the actors themselves despise that episode as they give the worst doable performance they could. But yes, the ones responsible for the shift was the network as ratings for SeaQuest was not all that they had hoped for after season 1, which is why Season 2 suffered with these whimsical elements.. Which only served to further harm the show and why it all returned to a similar state of Season 1 but in wartimes, to try one last effort to rein people in.
In real life, the actor who plays Dagwood is the real life brother with the actor who plays the one with the Gills, Tony Piccolo. They are named Peter & Michael DeLousie respectively. Also, Sam Raimi's borther, Ted Raimi was in this show as communication's officer ( _if I recall_ ). The Wesley Crusher kind of character was named Lucas Wolenczak, played by the late Jonathan Brandis ( _Commited suicide at the age of 27_ ) , was not annoying at all compared to Wesley. Though he did have his typical teenage " _I wanna go to the party and meet pretty lady_ "-storyline in one episode, it still felt natural. Unlike Wesley. . .
This was one of the 2 shows from the 90s that I know of where half the cast has died. It’s very sad, maybe take a moment to remember them.
One of the reasons to my understanding that the show only lasted 2 1/2 seasons is because the producers had no idea what they were doing and kept changing way to much.
Nice that the Seaview was included in that chart. And that big sub is better known as the Red October (as in "The Hunt For...").
I was about to make this comment, and I appreciate you noticing this.
Red October was a typhoon class sub from the old. Ussr
I was a bit surprised about the "How many stories can you tell..." discussion. How many episodes can you produce of a sitcom based in a house?! Well, stories about people, their interaction, problems... and we still know more about the dark side of the moon, than of the Earth's ocean floors.
A major plot was, that humanity has started to settle, research, mine and harvest in the oceans and it would have been good for a lot of stories, even without aliens, time travel etc. I loved the episodes in Season one, where they found the library of Alexandria or rescued a misguided "Utopian Colony" or the Undersea Arctic Prisonbreak. As long as you have good characters and human factions involved, the setting is just the stage for a good show. :)
Trekyards. Just saw your video on SeaQuest DSV, and yes it does have Windows. This was one of my favorite tv shows as well, and know SeaQuest in side and out.
I absolutely love Seaquest DSV
I was in love when I first watched this show although also I said to myself , no way in 2013 we would have anything near this, maybe 2100. this ship was way too advanced for 2013.
Actually with few exceptions we could have had many aspects of the ship, its jut element of money.
While I can understand the complaint of the DSV lacking moving parts or anything visibly sticking out, that was done on purpose. The focus of the series was exploration of the oceans, and the primary key to that was sea life itself would believe the DSV was just another sea creature. The simple and organic design was camouflage to allow it freedom to move around much like a whale would. A blocky metal submarine would stick out and be noticed, creatures would avoid it and flee, especially if it had a lot of external lights. So yes, part of the design is due to what they had to work with at the time, but it was also on purpose. Thank you so much for doing this video though, really brought back a lot of memories for what feels like too long ago. To anyone who hasn't seen this wonderful and amazing series please do yourself a favor and watch it!
As for the actual CG model of this, I believe it was all done on the Video Toaster- a Commodore Amiga platform. Granted it was the original Lightwave 3D program, it wasn't in PC format. As far as I recall at least.
I have to say this was one of the best shows that has been produced. I wish you guys who have actually found someone who knew about the show, come on and speak about it. There were some many technical things you didn’t know, understand or assumed incorrectly. You could tell you were doing this episode because someone had paid for it. But I don’t think you did it justice at all.
Hey guys. I'm very happy you did this episode. I loved this show. The ship was great, the car was really good and the story was great as well. Kind of like Star Trek underwater. When it went to Sea Quest 2033 I believe it was with Michael Ironside it lost something. I believe it's on Netflix if you want to watch it again.
This show really deserves a modern remake, with ties to the original. To understand things about this ship, you have to really watch the show. The feeling of " this looks alien " well ya. This was Steven Spielberg. In the 80's and 90's the guy had a huge fetish for aliens and that was in just about anything he did back then. If it was a show about cowboys in the 1860's, there would be an alien saucer somewhere in the show. Likewise there were aliens in this show, and the ship, for a time, became a space craft when it gets transported to an alien world. Mark Hamil plays the alien in a couple episodes. Technically also, this was not 3 seasons, but 2 and a half. You think it sucked how Enterprise ended, this show was cut off mid season. There was a TON of great potential in this show that seemed to get squandered away after the first season. Still better than Disco however.
Having recently re-watched, the first season is pretty strong, but the second goes way off the rails, and by the third, even Micheal Ironsides can't save the sinking ship.
^This is right what Bunit says completely.
But I disagree. It doesn't need a remake. It needs a sequel. Push the show forward another 10 years after the last so it's like SeaQuest DSV 2042. Perhaps have something catastrophic happen on the surface so the SeaQuest have to band together with a ragtag fleet of other shi- Wait, this is sounding like Battlestar Galactica in water.. Either way, don't use the word Remake. No one uses the word remake for Star Trek sequel series after all.
@@bunit1701 First season is TNG, second season was a SyFY made for TV movie and the 3rd season was DS9 - LOLOLOL - This show does deserve a modern retelling. Like Battlestar, there was PLENTY OF CHEESE but the concepts and ideas where solid and you could build out a better story with today's audiences.
@@bunit1701 IMO a remake should use the best parts of seasons 1 and 2 (the more science focused stories of season 1 as well as the whole peacekeeping angle foreshadowed in the pilot but little used in the season) andf then the more military and political elements of the third season (which would have made for some really good peacekeeping stories as the UEO tries to keep saber rattling militant nations from starting a war to retake independent colonies) IMO the ship's origin story would make more sense if it was originally built as a battleship-carrier to face down the advanced subs and subfighters of places like S3's macroneasia.. instead of facing what were basically 20th century attack subs.
honestly the only stuff i'd keep from season 2 would be Piccolo, Dagwood and the Daggers, and some of the place names.
I really enjoyed this tv show. They tried to bring a lot of science in the show. The simple design lent to being in the water well. I learned a lot about marine life with the educational bits at the end of the episodes. Thank you for highlighting this ship!
I loved seaQuest as a teenager. It was up there with ST:TNG on my list of favorite shows.
Actually Sequest and Babylon 5 came out at the same year Babylon 5 February 22 1993 Seaquest September 12 1993 have both of these shows on DVD watch them frequently Love them both
As I recall it also had a bow to stern mag lift pod.
Lawrence Haguewood yes it did
Submarines are called Boats
Boaty mcBoatface
Boats are carried on board ships, and since the seaquest is to big.................
davidedward10 even Bridger says it
ProtogenXL that was an argument between Bridger and his new medical officer Season 2 episode 1. I tend to agree with the medical officer in that seaquest is too big to be a boat, but that just me.
Why modern day full size subs are called boats is beyond me, but yes they are.
Perhaps that’s something to bring to “today I found out” channel right here on RUclips? What do you think ?
In navy terms yes they are boats, however some or few refer to them as ships which they are not exactly that, but given the huge size of Seaquest can be somewhat a ship. In "The Hunt For Red October" Captain Ramius refer his typhoon-class submarine as a ship a few times over, or saying a boat.
Wasn't a major plot point of the show that the guy who became the captain of the Seaquest was some sort of eccentric genius, and that the vessel was very much non-standard, even for the future period the show took place in?
Indeed!
Remember - essentially, in universe it was already scarcity era.
Actually Captain Nathan Bridger designed the Seaquest.
Stewart. if you remember the episode that shatner guest starred as a dictator of a small country during a conversation between the subs captain and shatner over the ships view-screen under shatner's image ,a series of numbers and letters strung by. they spelled out , " J.T.K. NCC 1701", IF you get a chance to watch that EP. CHECK IT OUT It's a cool Easter egg. egg.
The SeaQuest DSV 4600 was launched in 2015 operating a quad aquajet engine configuration and refitted in 2018. Season 1 took place in 2018 and saw the ships designer, Captain Nathan Hale Bidger, came out of retirement to Captain her.
Season 2 ended with the ship and crew being abducted, to be returned in a cornfield 10 years later in 2032 for season 3. Season 3 had to compete with season 1 of Star Trek Deep Space Nine and saw the replacement of Roy Schieder with Michael Ironside.
I remember this show as well. Would have been cool ti have them exploring the Oceans of another world, perhaps an entire Ocean planet. It'd be a different take your standard template of discovery of alien worlds, and would have provided a clean slate to do all manner of weird and wonderful things down there.
Point of technicality (that others have probably made, but I'll throw my hat in the ring), and point of related trivia:
1. Submarines are boats, not ships.
2. The ship in Star Trek TNG was originally going to be the seventh (Federation) Enterprise, with the registry number NCC-1701-7 (changed after they made the second Enterprise the NCC-1701-A; I guess they were worried people would append "uck" & that's why Picard's ship became the fifth instead of being the NCC-1701-F).
Yeah. Probably need to watch the show Commander. The hull is that way for a reason and it doesn't show well in static images.
But yeah, this show was mismanaged and not given a good shot or a good timeslot and it wound up failing. It's one of those shows that Netflix or Amazon would have allowed to thrive had they existed then or the show been done now.
Also Darwins swim tubes are a rather important aspect of the design.
But one thing this reminded me of was the Captain switch in S3 to Michael Ironside. Thinking about it, he would be a much better Lorca for Discovery. Perfect mean bastard but nice guy when there's no war going on. I doubt he'd take the job though...
Looks like a 1990s successor of Seaview in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
I think the Seaview is the bottom boat in the comparison graphic.
+Brian Paget Great! I hadn't noticed it. Looked it up, paused the video at 6:45 and there indeed is Seaview, right under another one which is the Soviet boat "Kraznaya Oktyabr" from the movie The Hunt for Red October (1990). The 1960s future boat Seaview is a bit like the TOS Connie of the seven seas :)
Essentially, yes.
+ Lady Wanderer Nice touch!
My child hood....
Loved this boat. That show had soooo much potential. I got to see the first season before it left for another channel. One that you had to pay extra for at a the time. By the time I could watch it the show got the axe.
My user name evolved from a reference to this show to a Zelda reference, but, still, started with this show.
I'd also say that adding too many moving parts or spikes to the design would eliminate the practical nature of the design- it is a submarine, afterall. Subs are smooth. Small bits tend to get sheered off at speed or crushed at depth.
Tech-wise you also should have touched on the WSKRS- those bright lights you saw in the one picture from the show. They were effectively the active sensor probes and would orbit around the ship, allowing it to "see". That was a pretty unique approach to making it real-world while also practical from a crush-depth perspective (ie: you wouldn't want large viewports at 9km down, especially on your bridge) and combat perspective.
The support craft really added more personality to the ship's capabilities. They had this VR probe which, for a good long while, was probably the most 90's thing about the show (in that everything had to have "VR") given how VR didn't materialize when they thought it would. The amusing part is VR circled around and made a comeback over the last few years so now their prediction on the tech, given the timeline of the show's events, actually turned out to be (more or less) true- redemption on their part! lol.
They actually had a good range of stories in the show. They weren't underwater all the time- they did have to dock, go on land, etc at times. Everything from dealing with international claims over the discovered submerged remains of the Library of Alexandria to dealing with underwater arctic stations to, later, aliens and time loops.
The third season (when the show changed titles to "seaQuest 2032" ) brought in a more expansive military approach with a more volatile political situation on Earth than the "present day plus a couple decades" of the DSV seasons. They also brought in genetically engineered people as another key element. In general it made the show less of the "Sci-Fact" show it started off as (with the ocean and eco messaging and Seaworld info bits during the credits) and geared it into being a pure sci-fi show (one of the reasons Roy Scheider was upset enough to want to leave the show after the second season).
The Seaquest always reminded me of the 1977 submarine used in The Man from Atlantis I believe it was called the Cetacean.
I remember seeing seaQuest when I was a kid. Since it came on a school night it was the only show that I could stay up for before bedtime.
I loved this series and refer to it among friends as "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Next Generation."
Finally SeaQuest! Thank you! :-)
Have to agree with the capt'n here: this is supposed to be a submarine of sorts, so... smooth surface, as few moving parts or unnecessary bumps (that create drag) as possible, acuatic animal streamline planform...they are all kinda necessary by design.
Thanks for all the great episodes !
I loved this show as a kid. Thanks for talking about this.
A beautiful ship! And a great show!
The basic layout diagram 10:15 appears incorrect EVA's are further towards the back, the spherical looking section.
Cool thoughts on it. Extra info: the linear and porous design allow the water at deep depths to help support the vessel's hull integrity. This includes the same tubes the dolphin Darwin swam in. Real world tech in this case. They also, I think, used Sonic Showers instead of water.
The show really wasn't 3seasons long it was rebooted every year. Yr 1. A star trek/ science fiction / educational show . yr 2 sex. More girls tighter uniforms younger crew. Yr3 all out action show
NBC spent a lot of money on the show and I think they were trying to make it work to get some kind of return from the investment.
Netflix or Amazon should buy the rights and reboot it, set in the year 2050 instead of 2019. lol
Your show is awesome!! I have been out of touch for a couple of months and I am glad to be back!!
Just starting rewatching the series I’ll be watching this after I finish it :-)
Loved seaQuest, great show. Filmed here in Orlando and Tampa, and Jacksonville
It looks very much like the Xindi Aquatic Stingray ship from ENT, just without the "wings". I can't believe either of you mentioned it... I bet this was even the inspiration for that ship.
It's water jet propulsion I believe, hunt for red october style just far more powerful. The 4 rear fins act as rudder control directing the jets and can close up to focus the jet for rapid burst propulsion which I recall them doing one particular episode. It's quite an ingenuous design to be fair.
I am so happy to see so many fans of SeaQuest here! I only have one thing to tell you all;
_What shall we do with the drunken sailor?_
The Typhoon class Submarine in the size comparison was the Red October from the book and film The Hunt for Red October.
Season 3 was a vast improvement over the prior seasons. I don't think the producers had any idea what to do with the show when it first aired. A good concept done badly perhaps they'll do a reboot learning from their mistakes of the series.
The first season was the best.
The second was the worst.
And the third was attempting to save it.
Just started getting caught up on your vids, very cool. You should make one about the Seaview from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ".
SeaQuest had three probes "mother, jr., and loner." It had a weird underwater pick-up. An underwater sub fighter and the Lucas's Stinger.
The pods with the legs and manipulator arms were called sea crabs and theuy also used shuttlecraft which were typical cylindrical hulls in a sort of roll cage.
The "probes" were WSKRS (pronounced like "whiskers") - Wireless Sea Knowledge Retrieval Satellites. How those things were ever able to keep with the speed demon seaQuest I dunno.
Probably has a smaller version of the fusion reactors and a smaller version of Seaquests main propulsion water jets.
some comments.. the dome looking thing on the top was a deployable comm array bouy.. basically would allow the ship to access sattelite communications and such without having to be on or near the surface.
the fins at the back were the rudder and planes.. they'd basically deploy like big airbrakes to redirect water flow and make the ship turn, divem or climb,. though we didn't see that in action often. smaller course adjustments were handled by water thrusters around the hull.. at least according to dialog, we never see them in action due to the limited rendering ability of the CGI of the time. (the sub was entirely CGI, a rarity of the time)
the original ship and the seaquest II were outwardly identical (made it easy to reuse stock footage renders), but had different internal sets due to the original sets being lost when production moved studio buildings after season 1.
the grappler torpedo and lasers were only on the seaquest II in season 2 and 3. in season 1 they would use an EVA vehicle called a seacrab (a crab looking minisub with lots of manipulator arms) when they needed to go out and pick up things and relied on just their torpedoes and missiles for combat. season 1 didn't have much in the way of combat though, after the initial pilot.
the other EVA vehicles it had were 'launches" a transport type minisub for hauling cargo and people around. basically their equivalent to trek's shuttlecraft. got a lot of use and the CGI model got a lot of reuse as civilian ships. and "speeders", a faster kind of minisub akin to an underwater speedboat, which included some basic armaments. these rarely got used. towards the end of season 1 they built a super fast one person minisub called the stinger, which wound up being a sort of hot-rod personal ship for a few characters in season 2 whenever they were off duty.
season 3 was much more militaristic focused after a timeskip, and the Seaquest II got a small compliment of 'fighter submarines'. one man minisubs designed with energy cannons and antiship torpedo bays used to attack other ships and dogfight with other fighters. the enemy in season 3 ("macronesia") had their own sub-fighters and combat submarines which were implied to be as advanced as the seaquest in general but nowhere near as large or powerful.
much of the reason that the design is so low texture and lacks a lot of fancy details is just the fact that it was being made with 1990's computers running early CGI programs.. you just didn't have the level of processing power needed to do a detailed mesh and texture map *and* be able to render all the lighting effects and such they needed to make it look like it was underwater. as it was it was a very impressive technical achievement for the time, and was heads and shoulders more detailed and realistic looking than most of the CGI using shows of the time.
Couple things: any ship designed by humans is a human ship. Every "alien" ship you've ever seen is a human ship. This is a stylish ship (PR for the new underwater exploration mission?) but ultimately a submarine -- it can't be too complicated or it would slow down in the water and be weak to attack. Also, I loved the muddy Hunt for Red October underwater shots as they're closer to what you'd see that deep underwater than anything in Trek (also majorly problematic) or in other underwater movies like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
I loved this ship and show as a kid and I still do
We know more about space than we do of our own oceans. This was a awesome show and quite a cool submarine. Sad to see you didn't do research better. Should've known more, both of you, before doing a video on this ship!
The seaQuest carried nine forward torpedo tubes and upwards of five rear torpedo to have the ability to stay at sea for months at a time was not required to come back to bees for resupply or refueling scientific capability is ranged with various internal ships that were able to carry out of a wide variety of missions from beach landings to ocean surveys rescue and attack showed did a lot in a limited run and I like many others would’ve liked to seen it continue thank you
I won't be able to finish this episode until after I get home from work. I hope you mention the Whiskers; the ship's version of star treks' sensors. They're little drones that explore around the ship and extend the sensor range.
This may come up but I remember this show used the same "Video Toaster" CGI system used in early Babylon 5 so that would help towards the similarities as well. Video Toaster was a bunch of networked Commodore Amiga computers to create cheaper TV CG effects.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea lasted only 3 seasons and they had some pretty good adventures.
Voyage to the bottom of the sea. It was called Seaquest DSV
@@joshuajanow8033 omg, your'e right! How did i makethat mistake!?
Great one folks, thanks.
But hey, commander, steamlined bodies do not like spikes and stuff on them. Imagine the flowcharacteristics of water at a depth of a few kilometers, i think it handles more like very dense jelly or sth. ... I think the design of the Seaquest is very well refined already!
... Although it seems that the oceans are somewhat limited in terms of storytelling i have to disagree!
One can still do some nice and balanced plots between nations and interests of all kind.
You dont need a freekin galaxy to pull a good drama :-D
Yeah, I agree - the DSV was designed to be a "near-future" submarine, and it shows.
The enthusiasm here is palpable!
SeaQuest DSV
The first season was set in 2021.
The second season was set in 2022.
The third season was set in 2032.
Anyone know who did the model at 13:10? I released a mesh into the wild about six years ago and wondered if this was based on it.
So the commander who lives in a world of decade after decade of police procedural s, cant see a sea exploration show lasting any length? I mean seriously just how many times can you tell a crimes story and not retread material.
3rd pic looks undersized becuz that ball section was huge they launched launches out of it and they aren't exactly small and the inside of the ball is mostly hollow
SDF Macross please.
I hope you are just joking about that?
Do you mean the Yamato.
Which one.SDF 1 or SDF 3?
SDF-1 from the original SDF Macross series not robotech.
So ther japanese version thwen.Problem with that.Is that there is very little hard information to go by.
This show was ahead of its time
It had aliens, mark hamill was one. It went forward in time and to another planets ocean
Carl Lawson it also when backwards in time to the Cuban missile crissis.
Christopher Bloom true, its been awhile since watchin it
Mike DeMarco no the final episode was with the stand off between the fanatic country with super secret subfighters and cyborg pilots.
The first seasn of SEAQUEST took place in 2021.
The second season of SEAQUEST took place in 2022.
The third season of SEAQUEST took place in 2032.
I loved the first season of SeaQuest and Roy Scheider's portrayal of captain Bridger. Season 2 best not talking about and season 3 had some good episodes
The design is very interesting. It's basically a biomimetic design based on the physiology and anatomy of a squid.
Actually, one of the reasons, the show was cancelled is the actor who played the Wesley character and hung out with Darwin, committed suicide. As for the design, that was deliberate. It was supposed to blend into the background, for observing sea life or other vessels. But I seem to remember more detail, in the actual show. Especially, the scenes that would show Darwin, swimming from one part of the ship to another.
The USOS Seaview is from Voyage to the bottom of the sea, that lasted twice as long and was pretty much just about aliens.
I thought the idea of the ship...sub... was really interesting, and I did like the design. But my mother, at the time, permanently scarred my image of the ship by describing it as a "long turd" when catching glimpse of the show way back. Thanks mom.
I loved the idea of that show. I wish they would reboot it with the basics of a near-future ocean colonization. Just forget about aliens and time travel lol. Did you ever read the Atlantis ASV web series? It was good it was more about a war that came after though. The creator designed some pretty amazing subs to go with it too. There are specs and diagrams on their website if it's still around.
I was 12 when seaquest came out back in 93 man long time and only just found this
Ah! This is so nonelastic! SeaQuest DSV was one of mt favorite shows.
They have this show on Peacock streaming now.
9:40 The front section looks like the saucer of the Prometheus or Intrepid-concept.
16:25 That looks very nice. I think that it could work well as a futuristic torpedo design.
17:28 In some ways I think that limitations helped certain designs. I don’t think that the Constitution-class could have been made today.
18:00 I feel like I’m listening to the reason as to why Voyager has got rotating nacelles.
I was wondering. Do you think you would ever do a mission briefing on a 3d model of a spaceship someone made up on their own that wasn't really based on anything else?
Oh oh oh did not expect that! Loved that show when i was a child :D (well... before it went all grimdark.)
One of the sets was from Disney's EPCOT Ocean "ride"
My favorite sci fi vessel of all time.
I actually watched the show while it was new.
Oh. I've been waiting for this one for a WHILE!
Dose anyone know where I can get information on the 23th century dreadnought Atlas star ship from star trek online. I can get the general information from the wiki page but nothing on crew numbers or other details.
They have what they call roving periscopes. There are these like starlite things that float around the ship that display to the viewsreen. Those I always wondered what happened if the periscopes get trashed what do they do then?
Whiskers?
The second Season final actually has the seaquest was taken to another planet to help with a war by an alien played by Mark Hamill, witch picks up with the season three premiere with the crew waking up at various places around the world a few years later with no memory of how they got there.