It's hard to describe just how titanically awful this show was. We must confess that we were inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt for awhile, but the insanely Politically Correct "Cheeseburger" episode finally sank this one for us. Roy Scheider evidently knew when it was time to bail;
too bad none of the other principles did. With the sole exception of Michael Ironside ( who at least got other relatively high profile jobs ) everyone else on this seadog went down with the ship. Speaking of which, the buzz at the time was that the producers originally wanted the "SeaQuest DSV" to resemble the "Enterprise" on "Star Trek"! What outstanding hydrodynamic qualities that would have had! As it was, the sub eventually wound up looking rather like a gigantic squid, which is at least somewhat believable, except for the MagLev trams that the crew used to get around this monstrosity, and the grating "Thank you for riding MagLev" canned voice whenever the tram stopped. That wasn't very believable. Beyond question, the most irritating character on the show, besides Darwin the dolphin, was The Kid. WHY do producers feel the need to include such supercilious characters like this? Wesley Crusher was bad enough, but this one. . .sheesh, give it a rest awready. Like "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", this show soon degenerated into one absurd storyline after another including, in a desperate and rather obvious attempt to boost sagging ratings, that old standby: THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED!!!!! Ya know what? By that time, nobody cared. Another Spielberg PC small-screen catastrophe that should be purged from your memory banks. Feh.
too bad none of the other principles did. With the sole exception of Michael Ironside ( who at least got other relatively high profile jobs ) everyone else on this seadog went down with the ship. Speaking of which, the buzz at the time was that the producers originally wanted the "SeaQuest DSV" to resemble the "Enterprise" on "Star Trek"! What outstanding hydrodynamic qualities that would have had! As it was, the sub eventually wound up looking rather like a gigantic squid, which is at least somewhat believable, except for the MagLev trams that the crew used to get around this monstrosity, and the grating "Thank you for riding MagLev" canned voice whenever the tram stopped. That wasn't very believable. Beyond question, the most irritating character on the show, besides Darwin the dolphin, was The Kid. WHY do producers feel the need to include such supercilious characters like this? Wesley Crusher was bad enough, but this one. . .sheesh, give it a rest awready. Like "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", this show soon degenerated into one absurd storyline after another including, in a desperate and rather obvious attempt to boost sagging ratings, that old standby: THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED!!!!! Ya know what? By that time, nobody cared. Another Spielberg PC small-screen catastrophe that should be purged from your memory banks. Feh.