Hello and welcome to another episode of Retrospection. This time we're plunging into the deep end with NBC's sci-fi series Sequest, DSP. My name's Colin and you want to kill me, don't you? The warrior new wants to taste that little blood.
How do you not have it? Tasted by blood? Oh. I have never killed ya.
I mean I've never killed ya. I'm pretty sure about that. I haven't tasted your blood Colin. That's true.
As far as I know. Yeah. And my name's Paul and it's nothing compared to the pain my boat to ask you to suffer. What?
Two hours of this. Are we talking about our show or Sequest? Oh, I don't know. We'll find out at the end of the episode.
TVDB says the 21st century. Mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth. The ocean. But a newfound potential comes old fashioned conflicts and the United Earth Ocean's organization, UEO.
Surely it's UEO. Oh, alright. A science of submarine Sequest DSP to keep the underwater peace and patrol the planet's final frontier. The captain of the Sequest and its crew are its guardians.
For beneath the surface lies the future. You know it's interesting that they use the phrase the final frontier. Yes it is. Because we know who pops up in an episode.
Yes we do. And also, I mean, this borrows heavily from a certain franchise that we love. Doesn't it? This show.
Yeah. It's now long. Did you know that when that certain person pops up in an episode? And we haven't said his name.
So we say it's William Shanna. Apparently his call sign on the screen when he's talking is 1701. Nice. They do a lot of nice show apparently.
Cassidy Clue's Rosheida as Captain Nathan Bridger. Stephanie Beecher as Dr. Christine Westveilin. Stacey Haydock as Lieutenant Commander Catherine Hitchcock.
Don Franklin as Commander Jonathan Fard. Ted Raimi as Lieutenant Junior Grade Timothy O'Neill. Yeah and there's Mark and Parks in there. Morgan Shepard.
I mean this is a pretty good cast. It is. Now before we carry on can you tell me is there anybody in that cast who after we post this episode I will discover that they turn into a desperate not to job in an attempt after people talking about them because they've been irrelevant and forgot about for decades. Can you let me know now so what comes of horrible surprise?
You refer to us in an episode where we talk about Superman by any chance. Yeah yeah yeah. I think full disclosure I don't think one of us were aware of certain proclivities that this person has. No no.
We thought about apologizing but you know. I don't know. We did know. We don't follow the news or anything really.
Apparently not. But yeah. Okay so this was created by Raphne Esselbanen previously involved in Firstscape and Alien Nation directed by Ervin Kirschner, director of such films as Robocop 2. Never Say Never Again.
And something called hold on let me just the Empire Strikes Back. It's funny why you should pick those. I mean Empire yeah but you know why why? Why pick those?
Why not? This episode was the last thing you directed. Well that's something to go out on a high with isn't it I guess. Yeah yeah.
First aired on NBC on September 12th 1993 and about a month later on LWT in the UK on the 60th of October. And I watched it. I remember watching this first episode when it came on. I probably watched it too because it was nestled between gladiators and the bill.
An arrow jet, Sequest and the bill. You could do a nice little boogoo in those couldn't you? You could if you wanted to be really busted cyst. I do.
I do insist. The BBC was showing the film K9. Oh I think we both know what we were watching that night. Yeah yeah.
This is one of those shows where the shenanigans in production are almost more interesting than the storylines in the episodes. Yeah there's a lot going on here isn't there? There is the first series didn't do well in the ratings so nobody show up it will come back for a second. They did decide to bring it back but moved production from LA to Orlando.
So a few of the actors were like I'm not doing that so they quit. And it's definitely Beacham who also claims that's another reason for her leaving were the arguments between the network and the producers. Yeah there was a bit of a change of direction wasn't there as well. Yeah.
Shydon liked this. He said I quote it's childish trash. I am very bitter about it. I feel betrayed.
It's not even good fantasy. I mean Star Trek does this stuff much better than we can do it. To me the show is now 21 Jump Street meets Star Trek. It's junk.
Old tired. Time warp. Robot crap. Wow.
I mean he took a check though. I'm sure. Yeah now a competent producer would have quietly spoken to Shydon and told him that they would address his issues with the direction of the show and in return could he not publicly diminish it because this was damaging the show and people's jobs. But instead one of the executive producers publicly said I'm sorry you're such a sad and angry man.
Sequest is going to be a terrific show and he's lucky to be a part of it. That's not going to help me say what a prat. It's really not going to help at all is it? It's like one of us doing it about the other.
I mean we just say to each other. Yeah. That's right. We don't publicly post it somewhere.
So Sequest was facing cancellation again. Shydon asked to be released from his contract but producers said they would only do that if he came back for a few episodes. In the third season. So they could kill him off.
I didn't know that. I knew I knew about the coming back for a few episodes. I didn't know that they killed his character. No I didn't either.
At the end of the second season we had Sequest being captured and transported off Earth by aliens. The third season begins with the sub-being returned to Earth 30 years later and the series was retitled Sequest 2032 and Michael Einstein takes over as captain for the third and last season. I don't think I ever saw any of those. Nope.
I didn't. I will be doing though. Oh interesting. Interesting.
You kind of giving away the end of this episode. Oh I'm just curious to see how it goes. Originally the show was going to be called Deep Space but Sir Trek Deep Space now came out and they changed it. Deep Space would be a weird show for something underwater I don't think.
Well they mean well they mean people say don't they always explored this much of the universe but we haven't explored the oceans and it means like space beneath the... Yeah I get what they're going for but I don't think Joe public would get it. No. I didn't like it but also I don't like Sequest either.
It sounds like a water perk. It does sound like a park. Yeah. Hey kids it's got a Sequest.
We've got the slides. If it was something today I mean it would be closed down really. You know it sounds like something that would happen like dolphins and water. Yeah.
That's true. Yeah. Yeah. One last point from me the visual effects were done on Amiga computers.
Yes they were. Not Amiga 500s proper Amiga 2000s and things. Which reminds me of Wiles watching this. I recall when I used to play Subwar 2050 by Micropros on the Amiga CD32.
I remember you playing that game. Was it better than this? My memory. Well I watched a video of it this evening and I was like I don't remember it looking that bad.
Games do that though don't they. I mean in your mind when you think back on them you think that was amazing. The graphics in that game were fantastic and I mean you look at it now and make your eyes bleed. Yeah well I'll check it out at some point.
Do you have anything you want to watch? Yeah apparently after in the first season after every episode would end Robert Ballad who is an oceanographer type research person. Yes. Would appear and talk about real undersea research related to whatever was going on in that particular episode.
And he was also a technical advisor on the show as well. And I do actually remember those little segments at the end of the episode. Oh I didn't know they had those on the UK. Yeah I remember them back but I think I used to switch it off.
Oh it's a learn. I don't need to learn things but I'm watching this. You talked about when the ratings dropped and I looked into some of the things that they included in the later seasons. I'm trying to introduce the Roman God Neptune at one point.
Nice. He's not what Roger and I just signed up for this area. No it was supposed to be a sidespace show not monster of the week. This was the first time it's been working in Schneider and actually worked together since George.
I think that's the reason you got the job right because Spielberg offered it to him. I mean I said that they worked together. I mean Spielberg probably just turned up on set. Did a bunch of pictures wearing the baseball cap and then got out of there pretty quick.
I would imagine. Yeah otherwise why wouldn't Shider have talked to Spielberg about the problems of the show? You'd think so. Yeah I mean they hadn't worked together since George so that was quite 1974.
It was a while. They were best friends or anything. It was a bit of a surprise after the first season that they did renew it because the races were quite low for season. This was perceived to be because it scored well with the 18 to 34 age bracket which was, his parents supposed to be like the golden point that people want to reach in TV.
Or so they say anyway because apparently an anonymous exec was quoted as saying they spent a lot of money and they don't want to look bad so they're calling a defeat a victory. That sounds like mud and staccato. That's exactly what was going through my mind when I read that. So Jonathan Brandes who plays the teen Wizkid in the show.
He was a bit of a tragic Hollywood back story. He was a teen actor who starred in one of the never ending story movies and he was tipped to be quite a big star at one point. He almost got the role of Anakin Skywalker in Attack of the Clones and I think he was in a Bruce Willis movie called Hearts War as well. Yes, yes, well what?
A lot of his stuff got left on the cutting room floor which kind of sent him into a bit of a spiral and unfortunately he died by suicide in 2003. Oh dear. Alright, well thanks for that part. Yeah, I like to leave it at high.
Do you have anything else uplifting to tell us? I don't know, that's all I've got. Alright, let's hear a promo from Sequest. This Sunday at 877 Central from Executive Producer David Burke and Steven Spielberg, the highly anticipated series premiere, Sequest, fastest largest most powerful summary never.
One thousand feet of sleek black titanium designed to explore the uncharted depths of the earth's oceans. It's Captain, a man of science, a man of compassion. Hey kid, good work. But most of all, a man of action.
Do you sure? That's what you've got before. It's crew, elite professionals. Diagnostics, we couldn't even find it.
It's pretty cool. Whoever bladed this thing, we knew what they were doing. On board, one very special crew member. I need your help.
How? Critics say it's the most lavish series on television. When undersea conflicts arise, the first ship, the only ship qualified to answer the call is the Sequest Fire. We need to serve as lies the future.
Sequest, from your Sunday at 877 Central on NBC, the weight is almost over. The weight is almost over. If only. If only.
If only. Alright, so we open with Shuts of the World, Ocean and its mammals, and a speech from John F. Kennedy about the ocean and humanity's ties to it. And how much salt do we all have in our bodies as well, which kind of freak me out because I do eat a lot of salt.
So if I've already got salt, I'm adding to it. It's not good for you. It's not good for you. It's not good, it's not.
I need to go down. Yeah. Average opening theme, I'd say. I think it was a lot about a circle, don't you think?
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We get a text saying it's set in the near future.
The NBC Pro, most claim it's 2018. I love it when these shares are set far in the future. You know. Yeah, not far enough.
Not far enough. And we're deep in the North Atlantic Ocean. We get a guy in a submersible, being chased by somebody, he's been fired up. The guy's chasing him sound like pirates.
They do sound like pirates. And he looks like the most 90s, 90s, 90s, 90s, 90s, 90s. I've ever seen in my life. He's got the baseball cap turned backwards.
And he's got the hurt and everything. 90s, 90s. 90s, 90s. 90s, 90s.
90s, 90s. 90s. We are going to see a lot of that late 90s, early 2000s CGI. I really don't like this early CGI.
I guess it was good for the time. But I've got a lot of problems with the underwater shots in this because they're so dark that you can barely see anything. And does that help the CGI in a way? Do you think?
Well, I mean, it is dark at the bottom of the ocean pole. Yeah, I mean, I get that's what they're going for. But it also I would imagine hides a lot of sins as well. Yeah.
There's a lack of texture on any of the effects. There is. Yeah. Yeah.
But you know, that was it at the time. It appears to have been plundering in somebody else's area, which you've done a few times, isn't it? No comment. So it seems the oceans are split up into confederations, each protecting their own area with different attacks subs.
Yeah. I mean, it's pretty easy to follow. Yeah. Yeah.
We had a bunch of different confederations about to go to war in a place known as the Livingston trench. No, that wasn't a detective from the 80s. Paul don't even think about it. I don't even think about it.
I don't even think about it. Sea Quest moves into the trench and we have Captain Stair, she's in charge. This. This.
Oh, you like it, yeah. No, no, this is probably the one. You like it, guys. It's a lot of the performance is in this.
I think I'm pretty good. But this Captain Stark performance is not great. It's very, very earnest. I think it's the best way of putting it.
I couldn't work out whether it was her fault or just the fact that all her lines are terrible. They are. I mean, she's the classic. I don't know.
Yeah. She's, you know, toiley moustache. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I think it's a lot of this already. Yes. Yeah.
And it just gets worse. As it gets worse. Well, worse is probably the wrong word, but more intense. Right.
She's had enough of the cat and mouse games that everybody's playing. She wants to attack and not wait for Arda's commander Fard, who's her exo, her executive officer, seconding command, tries to persuade her otherwise, but they get Arda's not to fire. Ignoring them, Captain Stark initiates a firing sequence with thermal nuclear weapons, but commander Fard stops her, a reliever of duty. Yeah.
She's going rogue. Although a thermal nuclear launch seems a bit excessive to me. Oh, maybe that's what everybody uses. I mean, they're thermal nuclear weapons, but maybe they're just low yield.
Oh, you know, you're nuclear weapons. Oh, yes. Yes. Okay.
All right. 13 months later, we're at the UEO trading base. Yeah. Sequest is being...
Ruar. I don't like that. You don't like what? UEO thing is...
It doesn't roll off the song, does it? No, it doesn't. It should be UEO. It should.
It should. It should. It also seems very familiar to me. This United Earth business.
I don't know where I've heard that before, but it feels very familiar. It's not what? Everybody comes back to Star Wars, doesn't it? Sequest is being refitted.
We learn that to Captain Nathan Bridger, who left the Navy. It's now going to return. Fardy's asked to appear to be incompetent and arrogant. As for some reason, that's the only way they'll get Bridger to stay.
I mean, it's not so many competent and arrogant. They should have hired you, Paul. You wrote all that just to build up to that, didn't you? I know.
I know. It's Captain Sheridan from TJ Hooker. If you needed an older guy to play an authority picker bag, then you got Ridger to that, didn't you? He was your man.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. The Navy goes to Bridger's shack and he watches them from the distance.
How many films have we seen where the army are? Some kind of military fast. Turns out that a guy's shack to get them to rejoin an organisation they've quit from. I think of one most recent.
I'm pretty sure that season one of Strange New Worlds begins with that. I think an Admiral goes to get Paul. I can bring him back into the service to take over the Enterprise. That's right.
Yeah. It's been done to death. Is there going to be 20 years from now where I'm sitting in a shack on my own and you'll turn up a guy, come on, Carly. We just need to do one more podcast.
We'll bring you to the back. I've got no, no, I'm just talking into the void. I've been in a promise. I never do another one.
Hold on. 20 years. You're optimistic, are you? Yeah.
I was not wrapping up my coffee. I want to be wrapping. I don't mean to go, hey, he's dead. When he's there thinking.
Well, you've heard me wrapping. You don't want anything to know. Never again. That's war.
I wouldn't. What's going on with Roshen Eider's face in this as well? All of it, I just see. Just all of it.
That's a work done, hasn't it? This boy is going to carry it. No, it's just really going for the part. I like him in this.
I like him as well. He's just a bit leathery, let's say. Well, he's been out in the sun all the time. That's his leathery.
So that was Paul. All right. Okay. Admiral Noys arrives at the Covidse Bridge.
He's got a ticket to take command of C-quest. That bridge has a dolphin called Del, and he has trained, right? Yeah, bridge is not above the shameless exploitation of animals. Yeah, yeah, that dolphin is never real at any point in this show.
It's always a model. Yeah, I wasn't sure about it because I kept thinking to myself, if this isn't a real dolphin, it's bloody good. It is good, yeah. See where the budget went?
Yeah, the dolphin. On the dolphin. Yeah. We also learned that Nathan's wife has died previously.
Of course we learned it because the Admiral only speaks in exposition through this whole episode. Everything he says is exposition. There is some seriously clunky exposition throughout this scene. The whole thing is a bit clunky, but it does move fast.
Yes, yeah, yeah. Apparently, bridge has been living in the wild and cut off from everything. Oh, that sounds nice. Well, I'm close.
I've been read in. So, you know, it's quite wild here in a minute. So, yeah. That's just you.
Yeah, just me in my living room is wild as well. Admiral Deut, tries to convince bridge by telling that C-quest will be a science vessel. That he should at least see his dreams for field, and he agrees to look at her and fly to Pearl Harbor. And then he says as soon as he's looked at it, he's out of there.
He says it. He does, yeah. We learn about the vast size and the labs that are in C-quest as it gets to tour, right? Yeah, I like the sets, the interior sets of the C-quest.
I think they feel weighty and real. This travel pod that they get, no. It was a reminder space in 1999. Yeah, and it's pretty sure there's another gene-rodger that we show Earth 2 or something that has one of these things.
Yeah, I think there is. I think the other shows have these. The book Rogers have one too. I think they do, actually.
Everyone gets around in these things. They always look the same. You know, it's a tunnel with seats and a little car. So we got to Jamaica.
This new bad guy, Villain, the main guy. I don't think we get his name mentioned in the episode. No, I didn't remember a name either. But this is Michael Parks.
Yeah, yeah. He's annoyed that the UEO has restricted his activities in the oceans and his way of making money. So he's going to take out C-quest with the help of the now-disgraced Captain Stark. Yeah, and he's going to use his own son involved in this plot as well.
I've got a fact about the guy playing him, actually. Oh, oh, wait. Paul has a fact. Let's hear it.
Why do I feel like I'm in the muppets? Thanks for that. You know, I don't know these things are coming, right? Everyone listen to that.
I don't know these things are coming. I don't know these things are coming. Probably does what he does. And so this act of playing Michael Parks son, Eric Dorei or Dorei, or how have you pronounced it, both he and Michael Parks, starting to swing feet together.
Nice, your connection. Thank you. That was worth it. That was worth it.
Yeah, that was a saga longer than the fact. I think it was, actually. Yeah. So on the bridge, we learned about whiskers, which are like roving periscopes, which is just a way of getting cameras to see things that cameras can't possibly see.
What you said, whiskers, I thought, what, cat food? Yeah, there's lots of cat food. The dolphins eat it. Oh, we're my...
Whiskers, it's an acronym. Sounds like cat rubber by his father. He didn't write it down. No, I didn't.
Unfortunately, I'm not even sure. They must have mentioned it. We meet chief engineer, Crocker, and bridging him know each other, right? We also learned there's a bit of animosity between the scientists and the Navy on board the ship.
Yeah, they each see each other as kind of an inconvenience, I think. Yeah, yeah. We're introduced to the security chief, Lieutenant Catherine Hitchcock, and she has that stare-trick-the-motion picture deck of vibes to Captain Kirk attitude. Yeah, this actress is Stacy Heydock.
I know we're from the Superboy TV show from a few years before this, which I will get you to do one, though, on the podcast, Colin. Yep, yep, just before I quit. We've been down that road before. I wonder what shell that was.
I made me go, I'll sit a walk in, get a cab, work with this infantile idiot. I don't know, there's a few to choose from Colin. Sorry, I could be any of it. It's great.
We discovered the ship still has missiles, even if it is a research vessel. So Mark out of stare-trick connections, because the Enterprise was always supposed to be a research vessel. Yeah. Bridget gets annoyed because they brought Dale in a bar without permission and are using this to persuade Bridget to take the job.
The ship has a translation device that can interpret, Dale needs to click some whistles and vice versa. Why would you program it to sound like a Mel Blanch-Loomy-Toon character? Why wouldn't you give it like a normal voice? Because you can.
Who wouldn't do that? Chad did that. Maybe you could give it a sexy voice. Is that what you do?
You give it a sexy voice. Well, I mean, he's programmed by what? He's a 15-year-old kid? He's going to give it a sexy voice.
Whatever you do, when Lieutenant Paul enters, go out that blowhole. Hey! It shoots out, not in. It doesn't matter to you.
No, no, no, no. I should say that this is, I like the bridge set, by the way. I think it's a nice set on the show. But let's hope that none of these characters have to get onto that bridge fast or leave that bridge fast because those doors take a hell of a long time to open and close.
They do, and they don't look like something that would stop either. No, if you get caught in that, that's it. You're losing a leg. That's not that you're done.
Yeah. The translation device is invented by Lucas. That's right. Adolphaboy-GDS.
It is Colin. It really is another one. Yes. Is the Wesley Crusher a Sequest?
It is. Why do we make these kids a night? It's like you've been looking at my notes, Colin. I don't know.
Your camera's in here. What's going on? I mean, at least Bridger doesn't like him. No, and in all fairness to the character, he does kind of grow on me.
He's at least irritated by GDS we've seen in recent years. He really is. He really is. He apparently likes to go skinny dipping with Bridger.
No, I think your five Bridger likes going skinny dipping. Dolph is down up close. He's already in his skitt, isn't he? Yeah.
Either way, I mean, it's a dangerous game if you know Dolph is. He's a good friend, Paul. Is that right? Okay.
Bridger finally meets his executive officer while not here because he's still sad he's not going to be captain. Fard, right? I don't really find that Fard pretends to be incompetent and arrogant that much in the show, really. No, it's kind of a blurred line, isn't it?
Because later, it's hard to tell whether he's acting purposely this way or whether he really is losing it and he doesn't quite know what he's doing. Well, there's a Ronda Watt who's probably acting purposely. I've got one of those as well. Do you want to be a matter?
Yeah, yeah. It's not a fish one. It's close. So you've got to get to it at a minute now.
You're both based on Admiral Noyce. He's called a fast one, hasn't he? On Britain? Noyce.
Yeah. You have to say it like that, Paul. Noyce. Okay.
He may be naughty, but he's certainly nice. Oh, very good. You like it. You like it.
Yeah. I wrote that one down. That's a 5% of our audience will get that. Cream cakes.
Think cream cakes. Is that your safe word? I swear to God that you're watching me. Yeah.
I'm watching. I'm watching. I don't like that at all. Nathan, back at his quarters, presses a button on the device and a fog of vapors, sometimes called hologram appears.
Yes, and this is the supercomputer played by Morgan Shepherd. That's not really a supercomputer, too. It's a soundy bard for viral or ethical conflicts. If you say so.
Practical effect, too. Like it. Yeah, it's good. It's good.
How many times has this guy popping stuff that we've covered? I don't know. Do you have the actual figures? A lot.
A lot. I think we both are. I think we both are. I think I've done it.
Accidentally. Yeah. Everyone loves drunk. Shmarks.
Meanwhile, Stacks is moving closer and having weapons. She's gone for a little night. Yeah, yeah. She's held bent on destroying.
Yeah. See, quest. Adron, noise. Send a message to Bridger.
He's asked to look at the main proportion unit to fix some twitches. Fix them what? Twitches. That's what it says.
Twitches. We're introduced to Dr. West Faelin. She's an eye by the Navy getting in the way of a scientist.
She's looking into a buck off of the top of the... We know what you mean. We know what you mean. Top of the feet.
I got there in the end. I love Stephanie Beecham. Do you? In a platonic way.
She always lifts everything that she's in. And I love the way that sometimes a little bit of a Northern accent creeps into what she's saying. Hi. Yeah, exactly.
Well, don't get used to her because she's gone after the first... Thanks. Maybe I'll buy those box sets now. We meet an obstacle cringoo as a night that the movie selection being brought on by the other old family films he says, you'll spice things up with his own personal collection.
Oh, that's a good job. Is that your personal collection, Pa? Hang on. Those are two...
Those are two spicy meatballs. Are you talking about all the hammer movies that I have? Is that what you're talking about? No, I'm talking about your personal collection.
I have no idea what you're talking about. This guy's the quarter-bashing. Gets his hands on anything. Again, like you.
I mean, basically, he's annoyed that he basically just wants a bunch of port, doesn't he? I believe that's what he's going for. I mean, can they not get one final sequence? I mean...
Oh, this is before the internet. This is the thing of every size fiction show that ever existed. Nobody for sale the internet. It's weird, isn't it?
I suppose it's hard to get communication at the bottom of the ocean anyway. I guess. I mean, submarine's the surface to communicate. Yeah, but this is the far future of 2018, Colin.
That is true. Yeah, I forgot that. Although, you know, as morale goes, I guess wanking is important. Any Chinese party's useful.
Wow. Is that racist? I don't know what it is, but it's stayed in. Come on, that's the best gag of the whole thing.
I'm currently within. Our listeners don't care. Styx Paris, the brewery, fires missiles at a power station causing casualties and the Sequestes decides to help. And that's the end of part one of Sequest DSP.
Stay tuned for part two. What shall we do with the drunken sailor? What shall we do with the drunken sailor? What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
Er, lying in the morning. God speed the whales are running. God speed the whales are running. God speed the whales are running.
Er, lying in the morning. Hurry up, she's running. She rises, whoo-rae. She rises, whoo-rae.
She rises, her lying the morning. There we go. That was a clip from one of the episodes of Sequest with the All Sing That Song because they're in trouble and peril at the sea. Oh, wow.
Okay. I look forward to that. I mean, I would have chosen frigging in the rigging by the Sextpistels, but there you go. Yeah, you would have done.
Yeah. That's why you've been thrown out of every sort of the rig you've been in. One day, one day they'll... That's the smell.
Well, yeah, I was not going to do about that. But one day they'll appreciate me. That's true. So, with part episode two, originally this was a feature length pilot and then they split.
Afterwards, as usual. So, at the halfway point, thoughts so far? It's going to look at his work. It is.
It's moving fast. Yeah. A lot of exposition, but they've got a lot of well-building to do. Am I out with it so far?
Yeah, my biggest two... The two things that I'm having problems with so far are Captain Stark because it's just a cartoon character, basically. Yeah. And I love the sets of the Sequest, but I hate the exterior design.
It just looks dull. Yeah, it does. It's not a memorable ship in any way whatsoever. Not at all.
Not at all. It's a giant penis as well. It's a surprise. You didn't like it then.
Hey! Hello. They learned that the station is badly damaged and there's casualties. They're going to intercept the enemy sub and go-to battle stations.
Would you like being on a submarine path? What? Like underwater cramps with a lot of sweaty men? No, just generally it's a kind of thing you don't like the idea of.
I think can I probably feel claustrophobic? Yeah, the thing about TV and film submarines, they're always bigger than what actual submarines. You've been on a submarine, haven't you? I've been on the cruise missile submarine with the unfortunate name USS Growler.
Kind of fits, really. Yep, yep, I've been inside her. I bet you have. Oh, here we go.
I wish I'd never asked. That's what she said. And it's very claustrophobic. And just imagine that you're deep underneath all that ocean.
No, thank you. Yeah, I mean, if something goes wrong, you're dead, aren't you? Yeah, pretty much. At least if you're on a ship, you can jump off.
You've got a chance. Yes. Yeah, there's no getting out of that. You're in a tin can.
That's true. You're a bean. All you are. Jean Bean, he dies.
He dies in a fin, yes. Baked? Only when he's been drinking. Hey.
Still going. Bridges says they should tag the Renegade so that they know where it is all times. But go and rescue the people on the station. Fard wants to immediately go after the sub.
So does disagreement between Fard and Bridger. But this to me is not Fard acting in Compton. It's a fair enough argument. Yeah.
You know, it's the military versus the mass scientific and lifesaving approach. I did like the, all the shots of people like locking things down because they're going into like a red alert mode. But I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I think, you know, I bet some of these shots are going to be reused a lot in the show as we go on. Oh, interesting.
I guess we'll find out. It turns out they have an issue with the controls on the sequence. Nothing is working. Yeah.
We've seen this before as well, haven't we? Where there's some kind of like sabotaged computer virus being put in there or something like that that messes with the ship. I think that's been done in Trek a few times as well. Probably.
Yeah. I think that's a great question. And countermeasures are not working. The hit, the battle systems are inoperative.
Fard appears to freeze. Roger says issuing commands. He orders to stop the crash dive into the rift. Stuck orders her submarine to follow.