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WSKRS: We Share Knowledge Regarding seaQuest is a weekly podcast about the 90s television classic seaQuest DSV

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WSKRS@wskrs· 9d

"Isn't it About Time You Gave seaQuest Another Chance?", article from SFX Magazine UK

WSKRS@wskrs· 13d

Okay but how does Matt Damon compare to the quintessential Ulysses/Odysseus performance? #KriegGang

John D'Aquino as Ulysses in the second season of Xena: Warrior Princess

WSKRS@wskrs· 26d

Michael J Costello, 30 years of “the worm that’s inside you makes you a zombie”

Screen capture of the Resident Evil 4 Remake, showing the scene where Leon first sees the Las Plagas parasites emerge from the necks of their host villagers. He raises a pistol. It’s gross.

WSKRS@wskrs· 26d

Oliver Hudson?

WSKRS@wskrs· 27d

The idea of a ship's doctor with a peculiar biology which keeps him bound to his workplace wouldn't take too much longer to reach tv audiences. Just on a different show, on a different network.

WSKRS@wskrs· 28d

Their plan is working

Screen capture from seaQuest DSV season 2, episode 1: Daggers. Two GELF liberationists bide their time in captivity, before attacking the oxygen generating plants that make human life sustainable in the future.

WSKRS@wskrs· Jul 11

WSKRS returns this Thursday with an episode on the tie-in novel Fire Below by Matthew J Costello

Photograph of a worn paperback copy of seaQuest DSV Fire Below by Matthew J Costello. Universal Television and Amblin Television are mentioned twice on the cover, crowding out an illustration of the seaQuest sailing over a large explosion

WSKRS@wskrs· Jun 20

Same guy.

Roybea from After War Gundam X, dressed in a kitchen apron with a spatula. I think this is episode 15?

SeaQuest season 1, episode 16: Whale Song. Ben Krieg grills and eats an illicit hamburger in his quarters.

WSKRS@wskrs· Jun 13

WSKRS returns Thursday to talk about episodes 16 and 17 of After War Gundam X, the Newtype Dolphin story. It’s a special one.

Poster art for After War Gundam X. Garrod holds Tiffa’s hand, running forward. Gundam Leopard, Gundam Airmaster, and the GX Gundam X ready for battle behind.

Frame from After War Gundam X episode 16: Because I’m a Person Too. Tiffa swims beneath the sea with a pod of dolphins.

Frame from After War Gundam X episode 17: Find Out for Yourself
The white dolphin looks head on to the camera with determination, as a flash of mental energy spikes from her melon.

WSKRS@wskrs· Jun 11

Happy pride from Darwin

WSKRS@wskrs· Jun 8

Always excited to see a new seaQuest article, and a positive one, which makes it all the more disappointing when it’s from a content mill with nothing to say and riddled with inaccuracies.

Screen capture of a portion of a recent Collider article:

Granted, the special effects of the series are very much products of their era. Some episodes are gloriously strange. A few future predictions missed the target by a country mile, like in "The Regulator, where William Shatner appears as a holographic
Al therapist capable of analyzing, counseling, and interacting with the crew as though he were a living person. 30 years later, people are still arguing with chatbots while seaQuest was imagining emotionally intuitive artificial intelligence wandering the halls of a submarine.

WSKRS@wskrs· Jun 5

Been doing my Tony Piccolo research

Photograph of the B&N Classics edition of The Red Badge of Courage (and selected short fiction) by Stephen Crane

WSKRS@wskrs· May 28

Edit of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode title card. The title reads: "Such Great Patience... Part 2"

WSKRS@wskrs· May 23

Captain Oliver Hudson: Bluesky Elder

WSKRS@wskrs· May 22

The 6FU Last Shooting episode featured cover art by @feralroyal.bsky.social depicting Remoulade Sangwiss and Versace Amore (L to R). They are also the artist of The Vow, as mentioned at the top of yesterday’s In Syndication bonus: arden.itch.io/the-vow

Illustration of two male figures standing back to back inside flames with a space-scape behind them. One is a cloaked, Byronic Vampire with pointed ears. The other has a regal uniform and a million dollar smile.

WSKRS@wskrs· May 19

If you see this post your getaway vehicle

Screen capture of seaQuest DSV episode The Stinger, showing the titular speedy mini-sub on blocks in the seaQuest’s machine shop.

WSKRS@wskrs· May 7

WSKRS@wskrs· May 6

Best I can offer you is a big grabby claw

Frame from seaQuest DSV season 2, episode 20: Splashdown. In an entirely VFX shot, a massive flying saucer grabs the seaQuest with a claw hanging from beneath its center, akin to an arcade machine. The submarine is surrounded by glowing energy and at the low resolution of this image it looks not very good.

WSKRS@wskrs· May 1

Finally, vindication

Screen capture of seaQuest DSV season 1, episode 18: Hide and Seek. Balkan dictator Milos Teslov (William Shatner) and his son Caesar visit Darwin the dolphin in the moon pool. Teslov planned to use cutting edge dolphin research to bolster his navy in his ethnic cleansing campaign, but instead found they might cure his son's autism. It's a weird episode, folks.

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 29

Depths of Deceit has Charles Hudson living in a New Orleans mansion. The stage setting gives him a long drive and a separate estate, but I like imagining him in the Garden District with neighbors. Which house would he live in?

White Italianate mansion with broad 2-level porches fully surrounded the building, seen behind a black iron fence with scrolling ornamentation. The Buckner Mansion, Garden District, New Orleans.

Italianate mansion painted brick red with white porches and a wrought iron balcony. The Garden District, New Orleans.

Italianate mansion painted pale gray with wrought iron balconies. The Garden District, New Orleans.

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 28

While issue #1 ended with a promise of a #2, publisher Nemesis also had an ad with the intended shipping date of #3 and a promotional image. This version with a plot teaser was found on seaQestVault.com

Promotional image for seaQuest DSV issue #3. Rugged Captain Bridger fistfights some manner of muscular, knife-wielding, sea zombie creature deep in the sea. A plot synopsis follows.
Art: Keith Pollard
Inks: Alfredo Alcala
Painted Cover by: Dave Dorman
Radioactive waste has turned an unknown mining colony into a nation of mutant monstrosities, holding their own children for hostages. Discovered by the SeaQuest crew, a battle ensues that threatens the crew and the mission of the giant submarine.

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 27

When we talk about the tone of the seaQuest comic, we have to remember it was 1995. This is the year of Age of Apocalypse, the Ultraverse from Malibu Comics, and the Marvel Edge imprint. Spawn was the biggest book of the year (outside of events and event tie-ins).

Cover of X-Men Alpha, the one-shot that began the Age of Apocalypse crossover series, by Joe Madureira. A lineup of X-Men characters prepare for action, with a feral, one-handed Wolverine leading the charge

Cover of Malibu Comics' Ultraverse title Ultraforce by George Prerez. Seven muscle freaks and superbabes speed forward toward the viewer over crumbling cave terrain, a shadowy face filling the background

Photograph of the foil reflective cover of Punisher (1995) #1, featuring the Marvel Edge imprint mark. The Punisher is in the electric char, screaming in pain

Cover of Spawn #37 by Todd McFarlane. An unruly mane of silver hair fills the page. Eyes, teeth, and tongue make an expression of mad violence in a blackout face. The figure holds up a viscous knife that shows Spawn in its reflection

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 26

The cover art by Dave Dorman for seaQuest DSV issue #2 would easily be the best piece of art made for the franchise except… the titular submarine is upside-down. Everyone’s walking on the ceiling. Darwin fell out of the moon pool.

Painting by Dave Dorman meant to be the cover to the second issue of the seaQuest DSV comic book. Light filters through the ocean’s surface to a field of coral at the bottom. An upside down seaQuest crosses the middle of the cover, as Darwin and launch craft perform their activities. A portrait of Roy Scheider as Nathan Bridger rises in the background.

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 25

Frame from the seaQuest DSV season 1 opening credits showing Darwin, an animatronic dolphin, and his name

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 22

The systems and design language are of the past, very different from the speculative all-electric seaQuest, but I’m sure this notice of environmental regulation would be Bridger-approved.

Legally-mandated notices of the prohibition of dumping harmful materials overboard under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and Annex V of the Marpol Treaty. Don’t dump plastic or oil, please.

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 22

The Steamboat Natchez’ engines are 101 years old, inherited from a previous boat, and open to guests during the length of the cruise. These pictures are from before we were underway but we went back later to see the pistons pumping and rudder turning.

Starboard engine of the Steamboat Natchez, with engraved plaques identifying it as previously of the Steamboat Clairton

Control boards and instruments in the engine room of the Steamboat Natchez, that look to be a patchwork of various eras of design history.

Rudder in the engine room of the Steamboat Natchez. Originally, crewmen would move the green boom arm along the yellow track to move the rudder. It is now controlled with a hydraulic unit.

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 22

This account might be slow this week on account of us being on vacation. We live on a lake, and talk about the ocean, so clearly we had to see what’s up with a river.

Riverboat City of New Orleans underway, as seen from the Steamboat Natchez

Photograph of the top deck and smokestacks of the Steamboat Natchez as seen from the upper deck bow. House band The Dukes of Dixieland are playing behind the crowd.

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 19

You might also meet Brittany Murphy.

Screen capture of seaQuest 2032 season 3, episode 10: Second Chances. Piccolo and Lucas, dressed in stolen 1960s clothes, are discovered by guest star Brittany Murphy on her family’s boat, days before the Cuban Missile Crisis

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 18

Coming Thursday on WSKRS, we read through the one and only issue of seaQuest DSV, the comic book

Photograph of the cover of seaQuest DSV issue #1, cover art by Howard Chaykin. A grim-faced man in a deep-sea hard suit reaches toward the viewer. A grim-faced dolphin swims with him, and a massive submarine blocks out the oceans surface behind and above.

WSKRS@wskrs· Apr 18

I’ve got a Bob Fact