Sliders

FOX (ended 2000)

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  • The Tolucans take their name from the Toluca Lake region of Los Angeles.

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  • Nitpick: There is a visible microphone stick when Remmy, Maggie, Mallory and Diana arrive at the camp. Edit

  • Nitpick: It seems unlikely that the candles in the "Rembrandt Chamber" were able to stay lit for 400 years. Edit

  • Nitpick: Mallory comes out of the vortex head first. However, in the next shot he is laying face up in some plants. Edit

  • Nitpick: Mallory goes into the spatial fold first, but comes out second. Edit

  • Trivia: The Statue Reads: "To those who dared to reach for the stars – In memory of the Intrepid Five of mankind's First mission to Mars. Lost to the Cosmos, their fates known only to God." Edit

  • Nitpick: Rembrandt says that there is 14 seconds left on the timer, but he doesn't activate it for nearly 30 seconds. Edit

  • Goof: At the end of the episode, the group open the vortex on top of a moving train. One problem: it's behind the train--therefore it should be getting farther away. However, the vortex almost seems to follow the train, because it stays right behind the it. Edit

  • Goof: During Quinn's flashbacks, there are some scenes from "Virtual Slide". Quinn couldn't have those memories in his mind as he never lived them, they were all part of Maggie's dream. Edit

  • Nitpick: When "Maggie" removes the disc from her neural implant while standing in the alley, the implant starts to peel off of her neck too. Edit

  • Trivia: Joanne and Rick use a lot of geek slang: Naked: wearing no technology (also netless) Tubed over: brought from another hermetically sealed Onliner community via the transfer tube F2F: face to face Ret-write: using the retina as a form of identity confirmation through the neural net Onliner: someone who has neural access to technology and the net Offliner: someone who has is not connected to the net Digidise: merchandise that can be purchased digitally Digicash: kind of like debit cards, but served through a digital medium Digijob: of course, the digital version of jobs Cracker: an offliner who has accessed the online neural net Knowbot: an electronic helper that assists an onliner in finding pertinent information on the web Edit

  • Trivia: Arnold Potts' eyewear, which he claims protects his eyes during transdimensional travel, are a reusal of a prop from "Virtual Slide". Edit

  • Trivia: The coordinates of Quinn and Colin's home dimension are 405 134 101 118. Edit

  • Goof: When Quinn and Rembrandt are reading where Colin and Maggie have been sent for reorientation, Rembrandt reads a file and says they've been sent to Elm Street. However, a shot of the street sign reads Elm Avenue. Edit

  • Goof: In the beginning of the episode, Quinn takes the timer and it states they have 1 minute and 19 seconds before they have to open the vortex. Not long after that, Quinn asks how much time they still have and Rembrandt says they have 10 minutes. Edit

  • Trivia: The Kromaggs seen in this episode and throughout the fourth and fifth season are significantly different from the Kromaggs seen in "Invasion". Their faces are less ape-like, and they now wear clothing resembling Nazi uniforms rather than the skintight black uniforms they wore in "Invasion". Their weaponry is also different. They now use larger rifle-type laser weapons, where in "Invasion" they used small handheld lasers.

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  • Trivia: As of this episode, the vortex is now funnel-like. Also, the beam from the timer is now lightning-like instead of straight. Edit

  • Goof: At the end, when Maggie and Quinn land in the futuristic world, Quinn concludes that they've gone into the future, although he has previously stated in such episodes as The Guardian, that they cannot travel in time.

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  • As Quinn says, this isn't the first time they have encountered dinosaurs. The first time was in the episode In Dino Veritas.

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  • Goof: When Rickman injects himself with the villager's brain tissue, Rickman's face morphs into the villager's face, along with the villager's hat. The hat isn't part of the villager's DNA, so it shouldn't have appeared in the morph. Edit

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Categories

Drama, Science Fiction

Themes

Alternate History, Ensemble Cast, Facing Danger, Fantastic Adventure, For Nerds