Seaquest DSV
Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of Star Trek: The Next Generation, SeaQuest DSV was a big-budget NBC series set in the depths of Earth’s oceans instead of the outer reaches of space. The premise was that the planet had exhausted its resources except for those on the ocean floor, where new colonies were now thriving with the help of protection from seaQuest DSV 4600: a futuristic submarine (deep-submergence vehicle) that basically looked like an underwater spaceship. As with TNG, the show focused more on what was happening inside the sub, but I happily stuck around for the occasional underwater submarine battle, brought to the screen through very ‘90s visual effects.
