LOOKING BACK, 1993 WAS AN auspicious time for the launch of a new sci-fi underwater adventure show on the small screen. Star Trek: The Next Generation was a year away from ending its seven-year stretch, and with Superman dominating the airways with Lois & Clark, what better place to venture than the ocean? Spearheaded by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, SeaQuest DSV was the deep’s answer to the Enterprise.
“After Amazing Stories, Amblin was looking to do their version of ‘Star Trek underwater’ – where instead of outer space it would be set in the oceans of the Earth,” SeaQuest and Farscape creator Rockne S O’Bannon tells SFX. “Star Trek announced it took place in ‘Space: the final frontier’. But with SeaQuest we were looking to explore the final frontier here on Earth – making it, we hoped, very identifiable.”
A SEAWORTHY ENTERPRISE
As opposed to the post-apocalyptic future that Amblin had originally envisioned, O’Bannon proposed a more optimistic scenario and one that didn’t take place generations into the future. “They were talking about perhaps setting it in a future where we’d polluted our planet enough that humanity had retreated into the oceans,” continues O’Bannon.
“I suggested something that didn’t take place 500 years into the future like Star Trek but only 25 years, where we’d gone into the ocean not because we’d polluted our continents so badly, but because we’d developed the technology to allow us to explore and colonise. Steven loved the positive message of that and thought it was much more accessible to our viewers.”
Esta historia es de la edición April 2022 de SFX.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 8500 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor ? Conectar
Esta historia es de la edición April 2022 de SFX.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 8500 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor? Conectar
THE DYING DAYS
RUSSELL T DAVIES, NCUTI GATWA AND MILLIE GIBSON LOOK AHEAD TO THE TWOPART SEASON FINALE
BEWARE THE DUCHESS!
Oh, it’s been such a laugh.
Demon Daze
Archie launches its first Premium Event as Judgment Day comes to Riverdale
JEDI SLAYER ONE
A STAR WARS MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE CREATOR OF RUSSIAN DOLL? SFX GOES BACK TO THE HIGH REPUBLIC ERA TO INVESTIGATE THE CASE OF THE ACOLYTE
Children Of The Evolution
Nu-heroes assemble in Marvel's brave new Ultimates universe
Atlas Smith And J-Lo
Atlas director Brad Peyton on his intergalactic AI actioner
Pride Of Place
Wedding bells ring for Mystique and Destiny in this year's Marvel Voices: Pride
EightLegged Freak
The director of the Alieninfluenced Sting talks about his spider horror
Beauty And The Beast
Director Bertrand Bonello talks his vision of an artificial tomorrow in The Beast
Paint It Black
The Orphan Black story continues with Echoes, a new series set 30 years after the original