Lucas Wolenczak
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Lucas Wolenczak (later Ensign Lucas Wolenczak) was a character on the television series seaQuest DSV, played by the late Jonathan Brandis.
Born on December 23, 2002, Lucas was a highly intelligent teenager who graduated magna-cum-laude with a degree in Applied Principles of Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University, acheiveing a GPA that has been unbroken.
When his parents divorced, Lucas' father, Dr. Wolenczak; one of the world's most valued scientists, was able to pull some strings allowing Lucas to serve aboard the seaQuest DSV as part of the boat's scientific contingent. While aboard seaQuest, Lucas invented the "vocorder", a communications device that translates the clicks and squeals of dolphins into English (and vice-versa), however, the program was not completed, and as a result, Darwin, the seaQuest's resident dolphin, only could speak approxametly 125 words of English.
Having been all but abandoned by his parents, Captain Nathan Bridger served as his father-figure. Bridger, who had lost his own son, came to look at Lucas as his adopted son, and vice-versa. (To the point that Bridger admitted to Lucas that he was one of the main reasons he wanted to keep living after the death of his own son and wife.)
Aboard the seaQuest, Lucas, along with Lieutenant Commander Katherine Hitchcock designed a new, one-person submarine, which he called The Stinger. (Although Hitchcock wanted to call it The Gazelle.)
When Lucas' father's world-wide underwater power plant inadvertantly split the Earth's crust, causing lava to spill into the ocean, Lucas and the rest of the seaQuest crew were forced to abandon ship, so that Captain Bridger could dive the boat into the well and detonate her nuclear warheads, effectively plugging the hole. With the destruction of the boat, Lucas and Bridger set to work on creating the seaQuest-II. Upon it's completion, they returned to the new ship.
Life aboard the new seaQuest was a bit different than the old. Lucas now had a roommate, Seaman Anthony Piccolo. Although the two appeared to be rivals at the start, they soon became closer. Originally, Piccolo had claimed the top bunk in the quarters for himself, but Lucas soon won it back in a poker game.
On a shuttle mission, Lucas, along with Lieutenants Brody, O'Neill and Henderson, were swept into an underwater "drainhole" and ended up in an underground cavern. With their shuttle damaged and encountering Marcus Rawlings, another person trapped in the cavern, only four members of the party would be able to have a chance to escape after the oxygen generator was damaged beyond repair. Lucas ended up drawing the short stick and was therefore condemned to death. Shedding tears, he attempted to remain positive, claiming he'd finally be able to find out everything he ever wondered about death, but, Lucas was soon allowed to live after Rawlings volunteered to remain behind. Escaping from the "drainhole", Lucas stole The Stinger and raced back into the cavern to rescue Rawlings.
On May 14, 2022, the seaQuest was abducted from Earth by the KrayTaks from the planet Hyperion and transported back to their homeworld. With the ship's destruction again imminent, Commander Jonathan Ford ordered Lucas to take The Stinger and abandon ship. Moments later, the seaQuest was impacted by a massive barrier mine, and was hulled. Lucas wanted to go back and attempt to save Captain Bridger, who had been trapped on the Hyperion mothership, along with a team from seaQuest, but Bridger ordered him away and told him "not to let them take away what you believe." Upon the destruction of the Hyperion mothership, Lucas and the G.E.L.F. crewmember Dagwood, along with Darwin, apparently the only survivors from the seaQuest, surfaced on the Hyperion water, apparently destined to spend the rest of their lives on the alien world. Refusing to believe his comrades to be dead, Lucas swore he'd find any other survivors from the crew. Failing to do so, he promised to one day carry the story of seaQuest back to Earth.
Ten years later, Lucas and the majority of the crew, as well as the seaQuest boat reappeared on Earth, having been returned to Earth, intact, by the Hyperion rebels they fought beside. Upon returning to Earth, the crew discovers that the Earth has become a much dangerous place. Captain Bridger realizes this the most, and retires as captain, placing Captain Oliver Hudson in command of the seaQuest. Hudson, a hardened Navy man, refused to have any civilians aboard his boat. Lucas, realizing it to be the only way to stay aboard, enlists in the U.E.O. Navy as an ensign, and is allowed to remain aboard the boat.
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