YMMV / SeaQuest DSV

• Ass Pull: Scheider left the show because he hated the direction the show took in the second season, such as the arrival of aliens. Michael Ironside agreed to replace him as long as the show eliminated elements. The problem is, at the end of the second season, the SeaQuest DSV crew and sub were taken by aliens to another planet, where the sub was destroyed, and Lucas and others marooned. At the start of the third season, the sub and its crew is somehow returned to earth fully intact and the crew can't remember what happened.
• Awesome Music: The season 1 and 2 title theme is bold, inspirational, and optimistic, setting the scene for a world looking to the seas for humanity's future. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for good reason.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Lucas and Darwin were consistently the most popular characters.
• Fan Nickname:
  • DSV was occasionally expanded out as Dysfunctional Space Vehicle by fans who felt that it was a retooled Star Trek.
  • The critics loved calling it ''seaQuest PMS'' because of how hostile Captain Stark, Lt. Commander Hitchcock and Dr. Westphalen were in the pilot episode.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: During the 90s, the series was so popular in Poland that three different TV stations, each belonging to a different corporation, were airing it back to back without cannibalising the ratings. Keep in mind that there were less than ten Polish-language TV stations during that period.
• Harsher in Hindsight : In "The Regulator", the villain of the episode faked his own death by suicide to avoid condemnation by his peers. Lucas responds by saying "I can sympathize." Knowing that Lucas' own actor, Jonathan Brandis, would later go on to commit suicide makes it difficult to watch. It's even worse when you consider the fact that the villain faked his death in 2003, the same year as Brandis' actual suicide.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Both involving O'Neill.
  • In "Watergate", O'Neill revealed that he knew ancient Greek. This would not be the only time his character would speak Greek.
  • In "Dagger Redux," Bridger and O'Neill were conversing at the end about returning home. Bridger makes a quote and explains it, and O'Neill replies with, "I thought it was The Wizard of Oz". Ted Raimi would later cameo in Oz the Great and Powerful.
• Nightmare Fuel: "Knight of Shadows", fitting for the show's Halloween episode. To cap them all, we have a mysterious set of directions, an apparition hurtling Bridger across his room, a man looking straight at the main characters during a paused video, something alternatively setting doorknobs on fire (literally) or freezing them solid for threat of frostbite, Bridger going down a fog-filled hallway while mysterious screams and laughter are heard from nowhere, and so on.
• Spiritual Successor: To Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Much of the background music in "The Fear That Follows" is based on "Mars, the Bringer of War" from The Planets by Gustav Holst.

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