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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 14h

Separated at birth...

Screen capture of SeaQuest DSV episode 10 ,The Regulator. Leslie "The Regulator" and his orangutan Verne pilot a submersible shuttlecraft while eating bananas. Hundreds of additional bananas are stacked behind them.

WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 17h

Let me just put up a powerpoint slide real quick. You see, this red area represents the amount of time Hudson has spent describing Alexander Bourne. But THIS red area represents the amount of time he intends to spend in future scenes.

SarahThe1001 @sarahthe1001.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Ironside acted the hell out of the several square miles of exposition that script packed in.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 1d

The room Hudson interrogated Lucas in was a conference room in that same building. Word is seaQuest was allowed to shoot on these locations for far below standard rate because Michael Eisner was trying to win favor with Spielberg for future productions.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 1d

Since recording, we looked up the UEO conference location that confused us. It was filmed in the central rotunda of the Team Disney building in Orlando, which is also a working sundial.

Aerial photograph of the Team Disney building in Orlando, FL looking down into the sundial atrium

Photograph of ground level within the Team Disney building in Orlando, FL, showing the gravel courtyard and 3rd floor observation catwalk

Photograph looking up from within the Team Disney building in Orlando, FL showing the sundial casting its shadow on the gradations on the wall meant for reading it.

Photograph of the exterior facade of the Team Disney Building in Orlando, FL

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Hale Bridger demonstrating “where there’s smoke there’s fire” applies to teenage abandonment issues.

SarahThe1001 @sarahthe1001.bsky.social · 5d

I watched Brave New World in prep for tomorrow's @wskrs.bsky.social and "my life is filled with so much more" seriously Bridger? S E R I O U S L Y you couldn't have a huddle with Lucas beforehand to break the news?

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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · 3d

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 2d

Meet Captain Hudson, the man who will get the seaQuest crew in line whether they like it or not. Because underneath the science labs and dolphin tubes it’s the only gun big enough to save the UEO from itself. Welcome to 2032: rss.com/podcasts/wsk...

Brave New World | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

Season 1, episode 1: Brave New WorldWritten by Clifton CampbellDirected by Anson WilliamsIt's been ten years since seaQuest disappeared to fight the space war, and the oceans have changed. It's a new ...

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 2d

As mentioned in our episode, EPCOT recently brought back the demonstration of the diver in the tube: www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/...

Photos and Video - First Diver Lock-Out Chamber Show in Years Debuts at EPCOT's Seas Pavilion

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 2d

The main concourse of Nexus colony was filmed EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion. Here’s some vintage photographs of “Sea Base Alpha”, as it was known to park guests during the time of filming:

Photograph of Sea Base Alpha at EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion, credit retrowdw.com. Curved, insulated walls and patterned ceilings sell the illusion of a pressurized, undersea facility.

Photograph of Sea Base Alpha at EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion, credit retrowdw.com. In a central vertical tank a scuba diver swims up above onlookers from a water lock entrance at floor level

Photograph of Sea Base Alpha at EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion, credit retrowdw.com. Interior of the “hydrolater” that brings guests into Sea Base Alpha. Featured in a shot of Alexander Bourne (Michael York) in seaQuest 2032 episode Brave New World

Photograph of Sea Base Alpha at EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion, credit retrowdw.com.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 3d

[both on the list for Movie Star Minute]

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Tyjos @tyjos.bsky.social · 3d

The Living Seas exhibit one of the cool things I remember from Epcot.
Loved how we got introduced to the Nexus Colony during the Opening Narration by Captain Hudson detailing what has been going on.

#SeaQuestDSV #SciFi

I loved SeaQuest 2032, a darker vision of the future.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 3d

More photos here, if you'd like to see how people use it as a wedding venue: fairytaleweddingsguide.com/wdw-venues/l...

Living Seas Salon – EPCOT • Fairytale Weddings Guide

Complete details on this venue, including pricing and capacity, may be found in Carrie Hayward’s Fairytale Weddings Guide.

fairytaleweddingsguide.com

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 3d

As we said, Nexus Colony was filmed on location at The Living Seas in Epcot. @bioreconstruct.bsky.social recently shared a lot of pictures of an event at the Salon, used for the administrator's office Alexander Bourne occupied: bsky.app/search?q=fro...

Photograph of a large window onto a gigantic sea aquarium, taken in The Seas Salon, EPCOT. The wall is wood-paneled and tropical fish sculptures sit on the sill.

Photograph of banquet tables set up in the wood-paneled Seas Salon at EPCOT

Photograph of buffet tables set up in the Seas Salon at EPCOT, showing the pleated ceiling, a gigantic mounted fish on the far wall, and so very much wood paneling.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 3d

Most of seaQuest's crew miraculously survived the space war because... don't worry about it. It doesn't matter. We care about now, now. And what's happening now is an expansionist confederation, a rotting world order, and some very wet reunions: rss.com/podcasts/wsk...

Brave New World | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

Season 1, episode 1: Brave New WorldWritten by Clifton CampbellDirected by Anson WilliamsIt's been ten years since seaQuest disappeared to fight the space war, and the oceans have changed. It's a new ...

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the note. Perhaps the Sanger Institute was named to subtextually back the safe sex subplot going on with Krieg and Lucas.

Maddie @freemaddie.bsky.social · 4d

@wskrs.bsky.social it was the Sanger Institute where Lucas went to see Julianna. Also, isn’t there a scene of the Regulator stealing Darwin in the opening credits of season 3. BANANAS?!?

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 4d

Hell yeah, brother.

Except for that comic. Hell no, brother to that part.

Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- @notapreppie.bsky.social · 18d

In high school one of my classmates was soooooo obsessed with SeaQuest and it was all she talked about. It irritated some of her classmates so much that one of them drew a 12-pane comic (4 rows, 3 columns) that ended with Darwin getting blown up and his remains be eaten by the crew.

Weird times.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 4d

Alone is kind of Scanners already. Kind of? It's about as close as Dream Weaver is to being Alien.

Chris Gumprich 🇨🇦 @gumprich.bsky.social · 29d

Wow, SEAQUEST DSV, you’re really ripping off every single science fiction movie this season.

I can’t wait for them to start ripping off SCANNERS in season 3!

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 4d

New episode and new SEASON! It's been ten years since seaQuest disappeared to fight the space war, and the oceans have changed. It's a new tone, a new style, and a new situation for those who return; all delivered by the gravel voice of the legendary Michael Ironside. rss.com/podcasts/wsk...

Brave New World | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

Season 1, episode 1: Brave New WorldWritten by Clifton CampbellDirected by Anson WilliamsIt's been ten years since seaQuest disappeared to fight the space war, and the oceans have changed. It's a new ...

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 4d

Today :)

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 5d

In exactly as many episodes as Brittany Snow

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 5d

Haven’t found a source to be sure, but just looking at planetariums near the studio the closest match is the Orlando Science Center’s

Screen capture of the seaQuest DSV season 2 episode Dream Weaver. Tobias LeConte (Mark Hamill) stands among the stadium seating and domed ceiling of his planetarium-turned-lecture hall.

Photograph of the planetarium at the Orlando Science Center with seats at roughly the same rate of incline, and exterior walls at roughly the same height before meeting the domed ceiling at the seaQuest filming location.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 5d

This role is over 20 years later. Makeup is magic sometimes.

Screen capture of the seaQuest DSV episode Treasures of the Mind. An archaeologist played by Topol examines artifacts with Dr Westphalen and Captain Bridger

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 5d

Two talking dolphins in one birthday. That's the life.

Screen capture from The Vision of Escaflowne (1996) showing an anthropomorphic dolphin man in merchant's clothes in a fantasy city, saying "Hello, miss, and good day to you."

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 5d

HELL YEAH, BROTHER!

grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 29d

Got some real good stuff this birthday.

Halo: Cryptum
SeaQuest DSV
Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Drift 2
The Vision of Escaflowne

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow we leap ahead to 2032. Seems like a perfect day for one last look at New Cape Quest, the setting for almost as much of season 2 as the ship that docked there, as modeled by a fan: youtu.be/Qo8YqqHHNwA

New Cape Quest

YouTube video by Teelana78

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