New Cape Quest
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New Cape Quest is a fictional city, similar to Miami, featured in the 1990s science fiction television series seaQuest DSV beginning in its second season. The city, located in Florida on the seacoast, has fair weather, a robust economy, a high level of material wealth, and comfort and safety all while maintaining ecological balance with the sea. New Cape Quest holds influence over (and is likely the capital of) the United Earth Oceans organization (UEO), a global federation of nations, similar to the United Nations, which oversees the missions of Captain Nathan Bridger and the crew of the advanced submarine, the seaQuest. As of 2021 (the timeframe of the show's second season) its population was five million. The city also served as the seaQuest DSV II`s berth.
Although an exact date for the establishment of New Cape Quest was not mentioned, it is believed to have been formed no later than 2009.
It is likely that New Cape Quest comprises all of what is commonly considered to be "south Florida", and comprises all of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade County.
The city was threatened with annihilation in the episode "The Sincerest Form of Flattery", when an experimental submarine piloted by a computerized psychological profile of Captain Nathan Bridger believed it was participating in a war games exercise and fired ten sea to air missiles towards the city. Fortunately, however, the real Captain Bridger was able to convince his computerized doppelganger to initiate the self-destruct on the missiles, saving millions of lives.
The idea of New Cape Quest was created when the producers of seaQuest DSV chose to relocate production of the series from Universal Studios in Hollywood to Universal's facilities in Florida beginning with the show's 1994-1995 season. Previously, the seaQuest was said to have been based at Pearl Harbor with exteriors for the show filmed in the Los Angeles area. One consequence of the series moving to Florida after the first season was the decision by co-star Stephanie Beacham to leave the cast.
