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# | Episode Name | Production # | Original Air Date (YTV) |
Original Air Date (SFC) |
Original Air Date (SFE) |
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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 |
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.
Written by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson
Directed by: Don McCutcheon
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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.
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...
Written by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson
Directed by: George Mendeluk
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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.
Written by: Doug Molitor
Directed by: Dan McCutcheon
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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.
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
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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.
Written by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson
Directed by: George Mendeluk
Edited by: Ken Petersen
Guest Star(s): Tara Sloan as Kyra Megantic
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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."
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.
Written by: Dennis Foon
Directed by: George Mendeluk
Edited by: Ken Petersen
Guest Star(s): David McNiven as Mentor
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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.
Written by: Doug Molitor
Directed by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson
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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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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...
Written by: Barry Pearson
Directed by: Jeff Copeland and Barry Pearson
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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!
Written by: Dennis Foon
Directed by: George Mendeluk
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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.