“Strangers and Comrades” is a deeply-flawed episode masquerading as important character study. It hopes you’ll overlook the inconsistencies and errors in favor of the tragedy of war. Don’t be fooled by the propaganda.
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Few episodes of Sliders pack such an emotional wallop, and when they do the conclusion is usually uplifting. Thanks to Chris Black for putting the newbies through this crucible.
Let’s begin with a question: who is the titular unstuck man? Is it Colin Mallory, the farmboy inventor we picked up last season? Is it Oberon Geiger, the “textbook megalomaniac” running amok in the premiere? Or is it you, the dear viewer?
The Sliders discover they are subjects of a fanatical religion known as Slideology, founded by a man with psychic powers who has been able to follow them on their interdimensional adventures in his mind.
Diana’s final confrontation with Doctor Geiger on a fragment of a world leads to a startling revelation—he has the ability to split Quinn from Mallory.
The Sliders are shocked to find the Chandler Hotel a part of an archaeological dig beneath a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles desert.
The Sliders scheme to steal a precious gem in a desperate bid to repair the malfunctioning timer.
When the timer malfunctions and throws the Sliders into the middle of the Pacific, they must befriend a pirate crew to return to the mainland and slide from inside the timer’s radius.
A layover on a world immersed in entertainment turns deadly when Diana and Maggie are abducted and forced to participate in virtual reality simulations where they experience death over and over.
Diana literally loses her mind on an Earth where all artists are imprisoned and their brains surgically altered.
When Rembrandt is contacted by long-lost Slider Wade, the Sliders follow her trail to a Kromagg compound that is using the human brain as computers to launch a deadly assault on Kromagg Prime.
Mallory becomes romantically involved with the leader of a rebel biker faction that is waging war over their ability to ride polluting motorcycles.
Maggie’s feeling’s for her father are tested when she lands on a world where her double was a famous astronaut… and her father is responsible for covering up her death.
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On a world where even red meat has a Prohibition, Rembrandt steps in as a jazz singer in a notorious speakeasy after his crooked cop double kills the owner’s pianist.
Maggie is accused of having a steamy affair with the President in order to distract the public from a war with Switzerland.
