Love Boat: The Next Wave - Season 1 (2000)

The crew of a huge cruise ship awaits its new captain, Captain Jim Kennedy III, who left his US Navy career early for personal reasons. As if this transit weren't hard enough, his ex immediately forces upon him the care for their 15 year-old son Danny, a problem kid with a juvenile record; the captain orders Chief Purser Will Sanders to watch the boy permanently. The new Ship's Doctor John Morgan is seasick even before they sail. Josh Walters was stood up by his fiancée, so he takes their honeymoon with his mate Luke Staley, which makes girls believe they are gay, and...

The new, ex-Navy captain is still unable to relax and fit in. He wrongfully worries that's even harder for Danny, and welcomes overbooking means his son will have to bunk with him, but the kid has no trouble amusing himself, even steals a key from the new also ex-Navy assistant purser to spend time with a passengers daughter- as it turns out, the captains former love's. Bar Manager Paolo Kaire gets on great with congressman Warren McMahon, his disarmed bodyguard with Security Chief Camille Hunter.

Eager to keep his mischievous son Danny occupied, the captain assigns him the assistantship to the ship's photographer, which is right up his alley if only it can be made interesting. Tristan Reedy and Juliette Titlebaum, a young couple about to marry, booked the cruise to establish a sexual reference base by studying the mating of humans just as anthropologists would do with any other species, namely doing it with attractive crew members, as if they had no emotional baggage, but of course nature has its jealous way. Chief Purser Will Sanders is elated to spend some ...