The best part about SeaQuest was the oceanographer guy that would talk about how some aspect of the episode was grounded in real science over the end credits. When they shifted season 2 to be all about fighting aliens and Poseidon and whatnot, you could tell he did not want to be there anymore.
There’s a really shitty season 2 episode mostly about the crew playing volleyball that’s probably the first depiction of a mech on network tv. It’s a direct line between that and the Ghost in the Shell crab tank giving baby Yoda some grief.