TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

The 90's were peak optimism. It's all downhill from there

The third season was a skip forward to 2032 and it was somewhat better, but still pretty stupid.

Like they had an android character who was a great big guy but had a simple, child-like brain. What the hell was the point of that?

Also, I had no idea that his bit at the end of his 30 Rock episode was satiring that in particular.

Pudding can't fill the emptiness inside me! But it'll help.

This show is pretty fire back in the day, they had some hyper intelligent dolphin doing recon for them

The first season was really good. The second was labored at times. The third was... something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaQuest_DSV

i just recently downloaded this/added it to my library last year. it did not age well. it was pretty awesome back in the day, but its kinda hard to watch now

Nah that's a common misconception, a lot of the ocean is mapped to enough resolution to know there's basically nothing there. A lot of the ocean floor is a barren desert with nothing much going on. Some parts have been thoroughly studied, where interesting stuff is going on and where we've put infra like all of the undersea cables (which are a lot). All of it is mapped to some resolution and some parts at higher resolution (you can see on Google maps lines where ships have gone through with better mapping abilities). So saying it hasn't been "explored" or "mapped" is simply false, it has been mapped and has shown to be not interesting. So no nobody went down there, nobody got pictures or centimeter level mapping, but we know how water and sand looks so why bother? It's this implication of something unknown and mysterious, whilst in reality we've just been efficient in what to find. And yes there are new species found in the ocean every day, but you'd need to be an expert to even tell them apart from other species we already know about. There isn't something big and interesting we don't know about. It's a nice story to tell, but it isn't real.

This is a myth, and my heart aches for this show might have contributed to it. We have detailed maps of all the ocean floor, with more or less the same variance as our dry surface maps. We have been to most of the more interesting, extreme and dramatic parts of the depths. Hell, there are oceanographic channels that live stream from deep under on the regular. Sure, there are surely still some things we haven't found, thousands of sunk ships too small to know exactly where they ended up in, or natural phenomenon we probably haven't documented yet. But, on the grand scale of science, we know the ocean floor rather well.

Shout out to EVNautilus.

Here's a neat podcast that talks about this specific myth.

So it is! And Jonathan Brandis on the right...I rember him from that awful Rodney Dangerfield movie Ladybugs. Brandis died not long after.

Sir, I'm afraid the troopers got their hands full with Emperor Ming at the moment.