Deck 8: Mission Records

This episode guide was written and compiled by Karen Fung. Please send any corrections or contributions to her.

SEASON ONE
# Episode Name Production # Original
Air Date (YTV)
Original
Air Date (SFC)
Original
Air Date (SFE)
1. Awakening DWB-0101 August 22nd, 1997 July 21st, 1997 January 12th, 1998
2. Lullaby DWB-0102 August 29th, 1997 July 28th, 1997
3. Legacy DWB-0103 September 5th, 1997 August 4th, 1997
4. Reflections DWB-0104 September 12th, 1997 August 11th, 1997 January 16th, 1998
5. Plague DWB-0106 September 19th, 1997 August 18th, 1997 January 20th, 1998
6. Cycles DWB-0109 September 26th, 1997 August 25th, 1997 January 23rd, 1998
7. Refugee DWB-0112 October 3rd, 1997 September 8th, 1997 January 28th, 1998
8. Hunt DWB-0110 October 10th, 1997 September 15th, 1997 January 26th, 1998
9. Fugue DWB-0107 October 17th, 1997 November 10th, 1997 January 21st, 1998
10. Siege DWB-0108 October 26th, 1997 November 24th, 1997 January 22nd, 1998
11. Prime DWB-0113 November 2nd, 1997 December 1st, 1997 January 29th, 1998
12. Infestation DWB-0105 November 7th, 1997 December 15th, 1997 January 19th, 1998
13. Aurora DWB-0111 November 14th, 1997 December 22nd, 1997 January 27th, 1998

Production numbers are the numbers given to the episodes in order that they are filmed. The YTV Episode Guide during the first season was put by order of production number rather than the airing order. There's a list of the UK episodes in order of airing date on a separate page along with an explanation of the odd airing order. For some unknown reason, the episode guide that was at the official Deepwater Black site, which had been completed shortly before it went down, was missing Infestation.
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Awakening (The Pilot)

Written by: Bill Taub
Directed by: George Mendeluk

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Six crew are awakened to discover they are aboard a spaceship alone and under attack by an alien spacecraft.

The crew is faced with the formidable challenge of battling an alien force while discerning the workings of the ship, their respective roles, and struggling to relearn their memories in the hope of finding an answer to the poignant question of who they are.

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Lullaby

Written by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson
Directed by: Don McCutcheon

Official site:

After battling an alien spacecraft, Gen demands that the crew return to cryogenic sleep or risk being replaced.

Despite unanimous protest from the crew, Gen is unable to deviate from the mission profile. The damage sustained by the alien attack prohibits her from exploring alternative solutions. She begins shutdown of "redundant systems."

Desperately, the crew race against time to repair Gen and, in doing so, unlock the cryptic purpose of Deepwater and the essence of who they really are.

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Legacy

Written by: Jeff Copeland
Directed by: Don McCutcheon

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The Sentinel Corps instill in Bren a dangerous militaristic mind set that jeopardizes the lives of Yuna and Zak who are lost in a Tachyon storm.

In Weapons Bay, Bren is pricked by a device set for him by the Sentinel Corps. A recorded message awaits him. The military's agenda for Deepwater is that it not be governed by civilians, but by him in a militaristic manner.

Meanwhile, Yuna and Zak are in the shuttle repairing a thruster in the Tachyon storm. The storm rages and the shuttle breaks through Deepwater's protective forceshield. To save them, the crew must drop Deepwater's shields and risk their own lives, the safety of the ship, and jeopardize the mission itself.

Bren, transformed, refuses...

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Reflections

Written by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson
Directed by: George Mendeluk

Official site:

Our crew not only learn that there may be several Deepwaters, they learn that the same alien spacecraft that attacked them, waking them from Cryo, was responsible for the deaths of the five crewmates aboard the second Deepwater.

The older Reb advises the crew to abandon their mission to avoid a second, and perhaps, fatal confrontation with an enemy whose technology is superior to theirs.

Bren suspects the older Reb of concealing his true intentions, a suspicion that uncovers the real story behind the fatal outcome of the second Deepwater.

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Plague

Written by: Doug Molitor
Directed by: Dan McCutcheon

Official site:

While Deepwater orbits an earth-like planet, the crew is infected by the Pandora Virus.

Courageously, Bren removes the container from Cryo and destroys it in the incinerator. Soon after, blaring klaxon and flashing lights announce the presence of the deadly Pandora Virus. Bren is infected.

For reasons unknown to the crew, the designers of Deepwater placed the Virus on board. In minutes, everyone, except Lise, is infected. She is faced with the frightful decision to abandon her crewmates and set up the Gene Bank on the planet or try and save the crew from a disease that ravaged humanity 400 years earlier.

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Cycles

Written by: Jeremy Hole
Directed by: Don McCutcheon
Edited by: Jean Coulombe
Guest Star(s): Cecilley Carroll as Krista at 12; Christina Collins as Krista at 20 and 35

Official site:

Yuna, Lise, and Bren take a shuttle to AFTERMATH II. They find Krista, a twelve-year-old child, wandering the corridors in a semi-autistic state, experiencing reality as the extension of her own imagination.

Krista's loneliness and state of abandonment induce a prex in Yuna. Yuna learns of her donor's shuttle crash with her mother, and she, too, was orphaned as a child.

Compassionately, Yuna reaches out and touches Krista triggering a neurological seizure in Krista and a series of events that unfold the mystery of the AFTERMATH II.

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Refugee

Written by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson
Directed by: George Mendeluk
Edited by: Ken Petersen
Guest Star(s): Tara Sloan as Kyra Megantic

Official site:

The crew of Deepwater take aboard a soul vampire.

The crew encounter a drifting lifepod, its only occupant an unconscious female whose blood contains traces of unusual chemistry.

Upon waking, Kyra Megantic elicits extreme emotional responses from each of the crew which threaten to destroy "crew integrity."

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Hunt

Written by: Raymond Storey
Directed by: Dan McCutcheon
Guest Star(s): Cameron Graham as Kaulman

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The Deepwater crew comes upon a satellite communication announcing the prosperity of humanity and the eradication of the Pandora virus.

Reb and Yuna take a shuttle to Korfu. Karl Kaulman, owner of the Korfu Resort and Spa, welcomes them and suggests that the crew become permanent guests: humanity flourishes on earth, the Deepwater Black Mission is unnecessary, its purpose superfluous.

Aboard the Deepwater, Gret prexes and learns that Kaulman is not the man he purports to be.

On Korfu, Reb and Yuna are prevented from leaving, and Gret must shuttle down to disclose Kaulman's true identity, and his ulterior motives for Deepwater and its crew.

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Fugue

Written by: Dennis Foon
Directed by: George Mendeluk
Edited by: Ken Petersen
Guest Star(s): David McNiven as Mentor

Official site:

Zak's creation of a cyberneural transmitter to induce and control prexes has dangerous and unforeseeable consequences.

Deepwater cruises through hyperspace, a pulsar on its horizon. Zak's cyberneural induced prexing sends power surges throughout the ship jeopardizing shield integrity. Deepwater is forced into normal space as the pulsar's gravitational force threateningly looms in the near distance.

But memories give breadth to identity and Zak yearns to prex. While the crew struggle to solve the source of the power surges, Zak reenters his prex and learns of the tragic fate of his donor's family.

Lost in prex, Zak might be forever unreachable, and Deepwater and its crew might be drawn into the pulsar's gravitational force.

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Siege

Written by: Doug Molitor
Directed by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson

Official site:

Deepwater is boarded by an alien force.

The crew encounters an unknown artifact drifting in space. Upon closer contact, the object grows to immense size dwarfing Deepwater and entrapping it in a powerful forcefield.

Soon thereafter, the weapon's system is disengaged and Deepwater is boarded by the unknown force.

The power to Gen's bio-core is cut. She is disabled. The alien force utilizes Gen's audio function to address the crew. It wants a crew member. And it wants one of them now!

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Prime

Official site:

A computer virus hidden in Gen's main processing unit gives rise to the Mentor.

The Mentor's agenda is to establish a Rex III colony of "perfect" people, destroying the remaining 98% of the gene samples stored in the Gene Bank.

Disguising himself as Gen, the Mentor locks Bren and Gret's shuttle on a direct course into a passing comet. Reb and Yuna are unconscious in Sickbay.

Zak must restore Gen before Mentor succeeds...

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Infestation

Written by: Barry Pearson
Directed by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson

YTV:

When repairing an engine, Reb and Yuna retrieve a damage piece of metal that appears to have been chewed. What they discover is a highly adaptive, self-replicating organism that lives on a diet of metal -- and it's now loose on the ship!
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Aurora

Written by: Dennis Foon
Directed by: George Mendeluk

Official site:

A beacon in space signals Deepwater with a vidmessage entreating Reb to reunite with his donor's girlfriend.

In a prex triggered by the beautiful image of Aurora, Reb experiences his donor's relationship with her; they were in love. The reawakening, as it were, of these deep feelings displaces Reb. Are they his own? He must find out.

Reb takes a shuttle to the Phoenix Colony and discovers a beautiful terra-formed planet and, awaiting him, a young beautiful Aurora.

The crew of the Deepwater is faced with an unimaginable challenge - Reb abandoning the mission for his new love.



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