Quinn Mallory Quinn was born in 1973 and raised in
San Francisco, California, the son of Michael and Amanda Mallory. The
driver's license shown in the episode "
Summer of Love" indicates his birthday is January 24, but in the same episode, Wade says that Quinn is a
Libra, which would put his birthday between September 23 and October 22. Quinn was skipped ahead two grades in school at some point before 1984. He was
bullied in
junior high, and being skipped ahead two grades made him smaller and physically slower than his classmates. His father died in 1984. The week after his father's death, several students, including Rex Crandall, bullied Quinn at school, which ended in an incident where he hit Rex with a
baseball bat. Quinn shattered Rex's
kneecap, and Rex walked with a limp for the rest of his life. In the episode "
The Guardian", on a world where events occurred as they did on
Earth Prime twelve years ago, Quinn prevented history from repeating itself. In "
Summer of Love", Quinn confesses to Arturo that he was starting
quarterback in
high school (indicating that despite being slower than his classmates in junior high, he became an athlete in high school, probably driven by a in this case healthy inferiority complex). In the episode "
Slide Like an Egyptian", Quinn meets his father in the
afterlife while being used for life after death experiments. They discuss how they enjoyed playing
American football together. ;Invention of sliding Quinn attended the fictional California University during the early 1990s to earn his
master's degree in
physics, specializing in
superstring theory. In 1994, he invented a device that allows people to travel from one
parallel dimension to another. Quinn referred to this technology as "sliding." On September 27, he went through the vortex with Wade Welles and Maximillian Arturo. Rembrandt Brown happened to be traveling in the area and was accidentally pulled into the vortex. The four of them landed on a parallel world where
San Francisco was in an
ice age. They holed up in Rembrandt's car until a deadly
tornado headed their way. Because of the way the sliding technology functioned, the group's only choices were to reset the timer and potentially lose the possibility to go home, or to wait for the timer to hit zero and go home then. Since the tornado was likely to kill them, Quinn had to reset the timer and lost the ability to return himself and the others home. For the next five years, Quinn and the others slid randomly to each world with a fixed amount of time on each one, hoping one of those trips would take them back to their own earth. ;Distant origin In the fourth-season premiere "
Genesis", Quinn learned that he was not originally from Earth Prime, but that he was actually from Kromagg Prime, an
Earth where
humans and
Kromaggs coexisted until a civil war broke out between the two species. He learned that he was transported to Earth Prime when he was a baby and left with his parents' doubles. When his parents came back to get him, his adoptive parents were too attached to him so they hid Quinn, and Quinn was raised on Earth Prime. Quinn only learned this after he returned to Earth Prime after the Kromaggs had invaded two months prior. He also learned that he had a brother, Colin, who was transported to another alternate Earth as well. ;The Unstuck Man In the season five premiere "
The Unstuck Man", Quinn and his brother Colin were unwillingly used in an experiment by
Dr. Oberon Geiger to merge people and parallel worlds. As a result of this experiment, Quinn was merged with a fraternal double of his who was referred to as "Mallory" (although his double's personality became dominant). After Mallory was sliding for a while, the Sliders met back with Dr. Geiger in the episode "
Eye of the Storm", and he attempted to unmerge Quinn from his double. Unfortunately, Dr. Geiger said that the two had been merged for too long and the only way to bring Quinn back would require killing Mallory. Rembrandt said that Quinn wouldn't want that, so Dr. Geiger ended the experiment and Quinn was presumed to be gone for good. But near the end of the series, Mallory would again show signs that Quinn still existed within him. ;Relationships •
Wade Welles: Quinn and Wade were close friends, working at the Doppler Computer Store. Wade had a crush on Quinn, something that he was too oblivious to notice for some time. Afterwards, both were too shy and occupied by situations they were thrown in to act upon their feelings; it was never followed through due to a calamity befalling the Sliders. •
Maximillian Arturo: Being Quinn's professor, it wasn't always easy for Arturo to accept his student surpassing him. However, Arturo often doubled as a surrogate father for Quinn. Quinn's relationship with Arturo meant a lot to him, and Quinn was very hurt when
Colonel Rickman murdered him. •
Rembrandt Brown: Initially, Rembrandt was at odds with Quinn, being the only one not to consent to sliding. The bitterness continued for a short duration, but dulled as Rembrandt gained respect for Quinn. The two became fairly close friends, though they still occasionally harbored conflicting views. Rembrandt gave Quinn the nickname "Q-Ball". In "Genesis" when given the choice to stay on Earth Prime to continue to fight the Kromaggs or go Sliding again, Rembrandt told Quinn "you know I'm always with you Q-Ball." •
Maggie Beckett: Quinn might have been attracted to Maggie. In "
The Breeder", Wade remarked to Quinn, "You have a thing for her [Maggie]?" which Quinn denied. In "
The Exodus, Part Two", Dr. Stephen Jensen (Maggie's husband at the time) accused Quinn of having a romantic interest in Maggie, saying "I see the way the two of you look at each other and I don't like it." Quinn told Dr. Jensen that he felt Maggie is just someone he had to put up with, but Dr. Jensen did not believe him. In "The Other Slide of Paradise," Maggie and Quinn kissed when it appeared they wouldn't ever see each other again and Maggie's fantasy in "Virtual Slide" showed that she held feelings for Quinn. In "
Roads Taken", Quinn and Maggie were married in a "bubble universe" that existed only for the two of them. •
Colin Mallory: When Quinn first found out he was from a parallel world he was initially shocked, when he heard he had a long lost brother he was overjoyed. At meeting Colin in person Quinn was impressed at how his brother was a genius on a world that had not developed beyond Amish standards, and the angst of the wild west. He initially took on the role of teacher to him as Colin needed an adjustment period so that he could embrace more modern technology. The two of them developed a scientific dynamic nearly similar to how Quinn and the Professor interacted. The both of them were initially lost in the same vortex that merged Quinn with his fraternal double.
Wade Wells ;Character history Wade Wells was one of the first Sliders to travel after being invited to by Quinn. At home, she was a computer store clerk at Doppler Computer Store working for her boss Mr. Hurley. At the time Wade had the biggest crush on Quinn though he failed to notice. She was one of the more optimistic people in the group, and enjoyed sliding as an adventure through her first year, though winning a deadly lottery that resulted in Quinn being shot in the back sobered her a bit to her situation. She brought to the team computer expertise not limited to hacking, and was a believer in the supernatural due to being friends with a witch (Aptly named Sabrina) at Home. She was extremely crushed when Arturo was murdered and her time dealing with it was further burdened by newcomer Maggie Beckett. It made her so distant that she once nearly joined a rock band whose leader was a Vampire, though Quinn after rescuing her let her know that she would always have the group, she stressed to him that she needed to hear it more often in some people. Wade's final slide with the main group would presumably return her home, but only with Rembrandt as Quinn elected to stay behind with Maggie to help her fight Rickman. ;Kromagg abduction 3 months after returning to Earth Prime the Kromaggs invaded and took her and Rembrandt Prisoner. They were questioned by the Kromaggs, sometimes together, sometimes not. Due to the Kromaggs superior mental powers they never knew what was real after a while until she was threatened with being shipped to a Kromagg Breeding Camp. She was soon sent to the camp, which haunted Rembrandt for a long time. ;Requiem Wade was eventually chosen by the Kromagg Dynasty for a last-ditch experimental weapon to "Re-Repatriate" the Kromagg Homeworld. Her body and mind became a living computer weapon to harness her mind power and the power of other living computers to bypass the Slidecage, a device that prevented Sliders from ever returning to the Kromagg Homeworld. She presumably died while rescuing Rembrandt from the Garrison that held her, though Rembrandt heard her final words: That she would be there whenever he needed her. ;Relationship with Other Sliders Wade had a strong crush on Quinn. Quinn was oblivious to this though at certain times the pair of them would explore their feelings as they once made out in his basement on a world that was about to end. Sometime later it was revealed that she later regretted this, though the two of them would grow to care for one another. The possibility of the two of them being married was seen on another world where their doubles were successful business tycoons in an unsuccessful marriage as Wade's Double murdered her husband. Wade and the Professor would often be in conflict, with the Professor's firm stance on science explaining things logically, and Wade's belief in the supernatural. They would eventually grow a close friendship where they would know how to push one another's buttons, though would look out for one another. The Professor would often refer to her as "Miss Wells". She was devastated after he was murdered by Col. Rickman. She & Rembrandt, in his words, were the only "normal" ones in the group as Quinn and the Professor were "eggheads". She would confess to him first of her desire to one day have children, and Rembrandt told her that with her presence he gets a part of his wish to be back at home. He had also once explained to her about the fine line between faith and superstition. When the Kromaggs augmented her into a living weapon he was the one she had a psychic link too, and she prevented him from staying behind with her by returning him to the group. Maggie Beckett was initially hostile toward her, something she reciprocated after Maggie downplayed the Professor's death and claimed she was weak. Wade did not appreciate her military philosophy of shooting first nor her desire for revenge against Col. Rickman for her husband's murder. For the longest time, Wade felt as if she was "losing everything to her" and not actually part of the group. They would later bond for a short time on a world where the dinosaurs still existed but never had the chance to bond further as she was soon separated from her and Quinn.
Rembrandt Lee Brown In 1994, Rembrandt was living in San Francisco. Rembrandt is a musician, whose stage name is
The Crying Man because of his ability to "cry real tears" on stage. It is stated by Wade in
Summer of Love that Rembrandt is a
Gemini; however, a "slide online" feature of the
Sci Fi Channel's
Sliders website listed Rembrandt's birthdate to be March 4, 1955. He served time in the US Navy, and he is the only character to remain with the show for the whole series. He was the main character during the fifth season of
Sliders. Rembrandt Brown had a promising singing career until he had a falling out with his singing group, 'The Spinning Topps.' In the years that followed, Rembrandt took increasingly lower paying jobs as his fame waned; however, he believed he could stage a comeback on September 27, 1994, when he was going to sing the
national anthem at a San Francisco Giants baseball game. On his way to the
stadium, Rembrandt was pulled into Quinn Mallory's sliding vortex along with his Cadillac. Rembrandt was the only of the original four sliders who didn't choose to slide and had no background in science. At the beginning, he strongly resented Quinn for accidentally pulling him into the vortex. However, Quinn and Rembrandt later became good friends. During one slide, Rembrandt discovered a world where his double achieved fame and fortune after breaking off for a solo career. With the world believing that their version had died in a mysterious accident, Rembrandt was able to step into his double's life and, albeit briefly, enjoy the fame and fortune he always wanted. Eventually realizing that his inability to achieve stardom on his own Earth was due to his own ego, and that his double had worked hard for these achievements, he decided to return with Quinn and the other sliders in the search for home. Wade and Rembrandt were able to slide to Earth Prime in 1997 or 1998. However, the Kromaggs quickly took over that world and captured them. The Kromaggs threatened to send Wade to a breeder camp on another world if she didn't tell them how to find Quinn, whose independent development of sliding would allow them to invade their own homeworld, Kromagg Prime. Rembrandt couldn't tell them what he didn't know, so Wade was sent to the breeder camp. A month after Wade was taken, Quinn and fellow slider Maggie Beckett freed Rembrandt from the Kromagg prison. After this experience, he had strong guilty feelings towards what happened to Wade, as well as anger toward the Kromaggs. Rembrandt is the only character who stayed in the show from the first to the last episode. He had to see the death of Maximillian Arturo as well as deal with the fates of Wade Welles and Quinn and Colin Mallory. In the final episode, "
The Seer", Rembrandt found a biological weapon there that he intended to use against the Kromagg invaders on Earth Prime. At the same time, a
psychic (who already knew a lot about the Sliders, suggesting that the psychic's powers might be real) predicted that the next time the Sliders would slide, they would die. Rembrandt decided to slide alone for this slide because the Kromagg sliding equipment being used was heavily damaged and would only accommodate one person. The others believed they might have altered the future predicted by the psychic by having only Rembrandt slide instead of all four of them. The seer died before he could answer them. ;Music career Rembrandt Brown has a career as a musician. He is called
The Crying Man because he cries real tears on stage. Some of his songs include: • Cry Like a Man • Tears in My 'Fro • Love Explosion • Head-Butt Me • Weeping Wall of Tears • Explosion of Love • Who Stole My Woman? • I'd Pawn My Gold Crown For You
(hit in an alternate universe) • Wave of Tears (hit in 'The King is Back') • I'm a Tear Jerk Rembrandt used to sing with a group called
The Spinning Topps (parody of
The Four Tops and
The Spinners) with three other members. His last performance with the Spinning Topps was in December 1986 (Reference: Into the Mystic).
Maximillian Arturo Maximillian P. Arturo was born in
Great Britain during the early 1940s. (His driving licence, shown in "
Summer of Love," indicates that his birthdate is September 23.) When he was a young child, his aunt's house was bombed by the
Luftwaffe while he and his mother were staying there. Both Arturo's mother and aunt were killed. His only memories of this incident were his mother's dead body being pulled off him. Since his father was fighting in
India at the time, there was no way for Arturo to be identified, so he was put in an orphanage. After the war ended, Arturo's father came to get him ("
Season's Greedings"). Arturo served in the
British Army as a young adult. After completing his service, he moved to the
United States, where he pursued graduate studies in physics, and met fellow student Christina Fox, whom he later married. Christina died of a
brain aneurysm when she was 27 ("
Eggheads"). Arturo had a son; however, it is not revealed in the show whether or not Christina Fox was the mother ("
Into the Mystic"). At the beginning of the
pilot, Arturo was
Regents professor of
cosmology and
ontology at the fictional California University. As a travelling companion, Arturo was arrogant, hot-tempered, and pompous, often referring to people who failed to meet his expectations as "blistering idiots." But he was not without a soft spot, particularly toward individuals he perceived as kindred intellects. Having been estranged from his son before he began sliding, Arturo had expressed that he wished Quinn were his son. Arturo was somewhat resentful of Quinn, jealous of Quinn's greater intelligence, as well as the fact that Quinn (and not Arturo) invented sliding. In 1996, when the Sliders mistakenly believed they had landed home, Arturo's double attempted to impersonate him. Quinn, Wade, and Rembrandt never knew whether they took the right Arturo sliding with them or not ("
Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome"). Later that year, Arturo was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and attempted to stop sliding. He continued to slide because Quinn needed him, and Quinn was more fearful of his friend and mentor's death than Arturo himself was ("
The Guardian"). In mid-1997, while on an
alternate Earth that was to be destroyed by a
pulsar, Arturo was shot by ruthless
Marine Colonel
Angus Rickman. Rickman initially tried to shoot Quinn, but Arturo took the bullet for him. His last words to Quinn were, "Get them [Rembrandt and Wade] home . . . Sliders" ("
The Exodus, Part Two"). Since the Sliders never determined which Arturo they took in "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome," it is possible the original Arturo from Earth Prime is still alive, as Rembrandt said at the end of the episode, "We've got an Arturo and we don't even know which one!". ;Beliefs In the episode "Into The Mystic", Arturo expresses strong opposition to the ideas that any supernatural phenomena (such as
psychics) around the Sliders were real. He believed that all that is perceived as "supernatural" is an illusion designed to fool the simple-minded. However, in the episode "
Obsession," Arturo found it interesting that a psychic saved the life of the world's
Abraham Lincoln. ;Wrong Arturo In the second-season episode "
Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome", the vortex had opened on Quinn's front lawn as the Arturos had a showdown. Quinn wanted to "take them both (and) sort it out after we slide," but one of the Arturos said "Like hell we will," and attacked his counterpart. After a brief scuffle, one of the Arturos slugged the other one and jumped into the vortex alongside Quinn. Once the vortex closed, the remaining Arturo said "Oh my god" with a worried look on his face. When it was left as a possibility that a double of Arturo's had slid instead of the
Earth Prime Arturo, controversy has been generated among fans about which Arturo actually slid. In an interview done in 2009, the show's creator,
Tracy Tormé, stated that he intended that the Arturo who slid should not be the original Arturo. But due to Tormé losing control of the show and John Rhys-Davies leaving the following year, this issue was never resolved. ;Casting In the DVD audio commentary on the
Sliders pilot episode, series creators Tracy Tormé and
Robert K. Weiss revealed that the character of Maximillian Arturo was very nearly played by actors other than
John Rhys-Davies —
Hector Elizondo was in fact the producers' final choice for the role prior to auditioning Rhys-Davies, but ultimately passed, due to the filming location. At one point, Elizondo went on a late-night talk show and mentioned that "I [would be] doing
Sliders right now, except for one word: '
Vancouver'." Also on the DVD commentary, Weiss and Tormé reveal that other actors who were considered for the role included
Ricardo Montalbán and
David Ogden Stiers (who was reportedly one of the chief finalists).
Maggie Beckett ;Character history When the sliders first met Maggie in the episode "
The Exodus", she was a captain in the
United States Marines under the command of Colonel
Angus Rickman. She was married to Dr. Stephen Jensen, who was in a wheelchair due to an accident a year prior. She was part of a plot to assassinate Dr. Jaribeck, a scientist who discovered that a pulsar would soon irradiate the Earth, killing all life. Since the sliders were with him when he died, Maggie questioned them about anything he might have said. The sliders managed to escape from Maggie and locked her in the trunk of a car, but Maggie arrested the sliders when she met them again at Dr. Jaribeck's office at
California Institute of Technology. When Maggie's superiors learned about sliding technology, Quinn was ordered to help Dr. Jensen (Maggie's husband) perfect his sliding technology. Maggie and Quinn were ordered to scout parallel worlds to find one that was suitable to build a colony where people would be free from the deadly pulsars. Maggie almost died when she arrived to Earth Prime and was unable to breathe the air. Quinn concluded that the people on Maggie's earth must have different lungs from the lungs of people on Earth Prime. Dr. Jensen felt that Quinn and Maggie were attracted to each other and was angry at Quinn because of that. Rickman killed Dr. Jensen to keep him quiet. When Maggie found out that Rickman murdered her husband, she wanted revenge. Rickman slid, so Maggie's only way to get revenge was to slide with Quinn, Rembrandt and Wade. Right after Maggie decided to slide with the others, when Quinn said, "Welcome aboard, Captain Beckett," Maggie revealed that she resigned her position in the military and was now just "Beckett". In the episode "
Roads Taken", Quinn and Maggie went into a "bubble universe" that existed only for the two of them. In that universe, the two were married and had a child named Thomas (named after Maggie's father). ;Relationship with Wade Maggie and Wade never got along. When they first met, Wade said, "There's something about that girl I don't like. No, make that everything about that girl I don't like." Maggie was critical of the way Wade was handling the death of Maximillian Arturo and used it as evidence that she was weak. However, she started to understand as she also broke down due to her husband's death and reevaluated her opinion of Wade somewhat when Wade saved her life from a zombie commenting that Wade "showed her something" by doing that and seemed somewhat humbled by the experience. In the episode "
Dinoslide", the conflict between Wade and Maggie was further examined. At the beginning of the episode, Wade was upset about Maggie's desire to kill Rickman out of revenge. Later, when the sliders encountered
dinosaurs, Maggie wanted to kill the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Wade remarked, "Isn't there anything she doesn't think about killing?" By the end of the episode, there were indicators that the two were starting to get along; Wade and Maggie said, "Nice shooting!" to each other as they were shooting a gun at an oxygen tank in the dinosaur's mouth in an attempt to kill the dinosaur. The last time they saw each other was in the episode "
This Slide of Paradise". At the end of the episode, Maggie said, "I'm going to miss you getting on my nerves Wade!" and then Wade responded by saying, "Same here." When Maggie met Marda in the episode "
Genesis", Marda said, "Wade said you were a tough bitch," and Maggie responded, "Yeah, I bet she did!" After the Sliders lost Wade (and apparently Rembrandt for good), Maggie broke down and said she couldn't take the loss anymore until as part of Wade's last act, she returned Rembrandt to the Sliders. ;Personal information In the episode "This Slide of Paradise" it was revealed that Maggie had an affair with Angus Rickman. She said it was the biggest mistake of her life. Maggie and her father had a strained relationship, raising her like a soldier. Maggie referred to him as "The General" She also had an Uncle who was an organ donor.
Colin Mallory He was introduced in the sixth episode of the fourth season, "
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?". Quinn Mallory had only learned Colin was his brother five episodes earlier in "
Genesis". When the sliders found Colin, he was flying a hangglider that he invented, and had gotten stuck in a tree. The local residents were angry at Colin for doing this because they were afraid his inventions might have negative consequences. One of the residents wanted to shoot Colin to get it over with, until the sheriff told the angry residents to go home. When the sheriff said, "One of these days you're going to go a bit too far, Colin Mallory!" the sliders knew that this was Quinn's brother. The universe Colin was raised on had far less technology than Earth Prime. Colin invented the first machine on this earth that generates electricity. This was one of his many inventions. The local residents believed that Colin was "doing the devil's work" with his inventions. Colin believed that
electricity is both safe and useful and wished he could convince the local residents the same thing. Colin was in love with someone named Suzanne on his earth. However, her mother disapproved Colin, because of her fear of Colin's inventions. Suzanne was engaged to another person. Colin's adoptive parents (duplicates on the world Colin was raised of Colin's actual parents) died when Colin was very young; since this earth had little technology, there was not the medical technology necessary to cure Colin's parents of their illness. Since the sliders had a small amount of time on this world, they had to hurry to find the microdot that would inform Colin of his origins. They found it just in time, and Colin was informed that he was originally from Kromagg Prime and that he was placed on an alternate earth when he was young so that he could be safe. Quinn and Colin's birthparents presumably did look for Colin when the war with the Kromaggs was over, but Colin's adoptive parents were dead, so his birthparents were unable to find him. After Colin saw the microdot, Colin was resistant to sliding with Quinn and the others, since Colin didn't want to leave his world and the woman he wanted to marry. Quinn did convince Colin that his future was sliding with him, so Colin went into the vortex. Since Colin was raised on an earth with less technology than most earths the sliders visit, he was unfamiliar with the technology he encountered. On his first slide, Colin landed in the path of a moving vehicle. Being unaware that it would be lethal to be hit by the vehicle, Colin did not get out of the way as the vehicle approached him. Quinn had to move Colin out of the way. In the episode "
Revelations", Colin met who he thought were his birthparents but it turned out they were doubles. In the episode "
The Unstuck Man", Colin was made "unstuck" in the multiverse, meaning, that he was not anchored on a particular world. This was the result of an experiment by Dr. Oberon Geiger, who later said that he was beyond his reach, possibly on another parallel world, or was destroyed in the initial encounter. According to
Marc Scott Zicree, a writer for the show, the
retcon from "Genesis" was originally intended to be a
red herring. The idea was that Colin was actually a clone of Quinn created by the Kromaggs as a sleeper agent within the sliders. In the original draft for "Revelations," he would flip, attacking Quinn and ending the season on a cliffhanger. This would probably have had the effect of simplifying the somewhat complicated (and largely financially unresolvable) plot progression of the show. Nevertheless, because this would render Charlie O'Connell's character unusable in a regular capacity after Season 4, and because by that time Jerry O'Connell's residency on the show depended on his brother's presence (and because this was all before anyone knew the brothers would be departing)
David Peckinpah vetoed the idea. The veto of Zicree's idea was finalized with "Lipschitz Live," in which Colin has a double (which would mean he couldn't be a clone of Quinn, unless the double is also a clone). Curiously, Charlie O'Connell also appeared in the season 3 episode "Dragonslide" as Officer O'Hara and also as Kit Richards in the episode "As Time Goes By". Although no relationship was mentioned at the time, it is assumable that O'Hara and Richards may be doubles of Colin under different names. Retroactively solidifying Colin into the series prior to his actual season 4 introduction.
Mallory This version of Quinn Mallory is the fraternal double of the first Quinn. Unlike the first Slider of his namesake, this version of him grew up in a life of petty crime, before losing the ability to walk. Stuck in a wheelchair for about a year he was found by Doctor Oberen Geiger who used him as a test subject to combine subtle fragments of doubles across the multiverse. With this Doctor Geiger was able to restore his ability to walk. Later on one certain day, Geiger decided to use him in an experiment that merged him with a fraternal double (The Original Quinn Mallory). This experiment resulted in a combined version with a mixed-up mind, one trying to surface over the other. After helping the Sliders who were left after the experiment to stop Geiger from combining the Multiverse he decided to join them along with scientist Diana Davis. Mallory's time with the Sliders was strained for the start of the time he was with them. Maggie was bluntly more interested in getting Quinn back at the cost of Mallory's mind, and getting into the already hectic and dangerous life of a Slider was something he had to adjust too. Soon though the mind of Original Quinn started to fade over time, and he was convinced that Quinn was gone for good. Mallory was known for some womanizing, a history with video games, petty theft, and mixing in with the wrong crowds though he learned from these experiences. After Geiger returned a last time they discovered that he and Quinn were merged for too long and in order for Quinn to return Mallory would not survive the process. Rembrandt knowing what Quinn would have wanted elected to stop the experiment and they remained merged, though there were subtle clues that Quinn was still alive in him. Mallory was present when Rembrandt vortex'd out from the Seer's world unable to volunteer himself in his place.
Diana Davis Diana Davis led a sheltered and doted life. She was chosen for Doctor Geiger project concerning his combine device. When the Quinns were merged she was there to explain to Rembrandt and Maggie what had happened to Quinn and Colon. She soon discovered what Doctor Geiger was really up too and helped Mallory and the Sliders stop his project before joining the Sliders in the attempt to split the two Quinns. Diana had a lot to adjust too when she began traveling with Rembrandt and Maggie. She had trouble working with a team, finding herself undefined by her ex-mentor, and the realization that Sliding would mean her life would often be in danger, a realization she came too after being introduced to the Kromaggs in a literal war zone. After the disappearances of Quinn and Colin, Diana was the one who would take over as the scientific expert. She often carried around a portable computing device that helped her to calculate and detect temporal disturbances. A skill that would prove essential in the maintenance of the timer, reviving Wade's Conscious Mind and getting off an asteroid suspended in hyperspace. Maggie claimed that since she had a woman to relate too, the scientific stuff was easier to understand. Diana went through some changes herself that got her to get over certain fears. She got over her fear of "The Darkness" after her brain died a few times when she was abducted to be a holographic NPC, and having her brain temporarily evolved after a lobotomy went wrong. After the Final Attempt to split the Quinns failed she elected to stay with the Sliders after Geiger showed them the way home, this would not happen though as she was present when Rembrandt made the dangerous attempt home. She remained stranded on The Seers world along with Maggie Beckett and Mallory. ==Recurring and notable characters==