"The 21st century: mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth; the ocean. As captain of the SeaQuest and its crew, we are its guardians, for beneath the surface lies the future."
SeaQuest DSV is an American science fiction and adventure television series. It was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and aired for three seasons on NBC between 1993 and 1996. The third season of the show took place nearly two decades after the events of the first two seasons and changed its title to SeaQuest 2032.
Set in "the near future"; the year 2018, seaQuest DSV originally mixed high drama with realistic scientific fiction. It originally starred film star Roy Scheider as Captain Nathan Bridger, designer and commander of the titular naval submarine seaQuest DSV 4600. Jonathan Brandis also starred as Lucas Wolenczak, a teenaged computer genius placed aboard seaQuest by his father and Stephanie Beacham as Kristin Westphalen, the chief medical officer and head of the seaQuest science department. In the third season, Michael Ironside replaced Scheider as lead of the series and starred as Captain Oliver Hudson. Also present was a dolphin character called Darwin who, due to technological advances, was able to communicate with the crew. Steven Spielberg expressed interest in the project and served as one of the show's executive producers during the first two seasons.
