Character Bios

(Coming soon are bios of all characters that ever appeared!)

Quinn Mallory

Quinn Mallory was born in the city of San Francisco, California on an alternate world. Quinn's homeworld was at war with the Kromaggs, so Quinn and his brother Colin were put on separate worlds so that the Kromaggs would not find them. As a child, Quinn developed a lifelong fascination with dinosaurs, and began pursuing an uncanny facility in the sciences.

In 1984, Quinn's father was killed in a car-crash on his way to work. This devastated Quinn, who suffered the double loss of having his dog, Bopper, run away the afternoon of the funeral. This, combined with schoolyard bullies, drove Quinn to hate his genius.
Unable to locate Bopper again, Quinn later got a gray cat which he named Schrodinger, after the noted quantum physicist. Schrodinger remained his companion for many years, down to the time of his disappearance.

As Quinn grew up, he attempted to deny his genius by pursuing a career in sports. At California High School, Quinn spent a brief period of time as a quarterback in the school football team. However, a knee injury forced him to drop out, pursuing his interest in quantum physics, instead. Though he later came to grips with his intellect, Quinn continued to hide it by working in secret in the basement of his house.

When he graduated, Quinn began attending classes at the University of California. He studied engineering as well as classes in cosmology under Professor Maximillian Arturo. To supplement his income, Quinn became a repairman at Doppler Computer Superstore, where he met and developed a platonic relationship with a young woman named Wade Wells. Between college and work, Quinn also began working on experiments in his spare time, attempting to solve the Unified Field Theory.

In 1995, Quinn began examining the possibility of developing the world's first antigravity device. On September 13th, Quinn's experiments led him to create a swirling disk in open space that he could not identify. Later examination led him to conclude that it was the mouth of a tunnel to an alternate reality. He began discussing the possibility of alternate dimensions with his friend and classmate, Conrad Bennish, and eventually came to the conclusion that he had created an Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky Bridge.

On September 22nd, Quinn began sending objects through the wormhole. None of them returned until he perfected a timing device on the 25th, at which time he was able to send and retrieve a basketball. On the 27th, Quinn took a leap of faith and entered the wormhole. Videotapes show that he returned to his basement a few minutes later in a state of excitement, talking about an alternate reality he had visited. Shortly afterward, Quinn disappeared, along with three other individuals. An FBI investigation was pending. Quinn did finally return to what he believed was his home world, but when he returned it was overrun with Kromaggs, and that's when Quinn's "Mother" told him he was from another world.

Nowadays Quinn is merged with a double of himself. This was a result of an experiment done by a strange man named Dr. Geiger. We think that Quinn is still alive in his double, but it is not likely because Quinn's double, now known as Mallory, became the dominant person. Now Quinn must free himself from inside of his double, only then can save the multi-verse from the Kromagg Dynasty!

Wade Welles

Wade Kathleen Welles was raised with her sister Kelley in San Francisco, California. In junior high, Wade was forced to wear braces which left her isolated from her peers. To cope with this, she became an avid reader and developed an interest in the supernatural.

After high school, Wade attended Northshore Junior College, majoring in extemporaneous poetry and prose. She got a job as a saleswoman at Doppler Computer Superstore, where she met and befriended Quinn Mallory. Her friendship with Quinn grew into love, but he continued to perceive her as a "bud." On September 27th, 1995, Quinn was seen kissing Wade passionately after insulting his boss. She visited Quinn's home a few hours later, entered his basement, and disappeared at the same time Quinn did. They started their sliding journey, and when they lost the co-ordinates to Wade's homeworld, they began a journey to get home. Eventually, after battling with a madman Rickmin, Wade did return home, but she was captured by the Kromaggs and sent to a breeding camp.

Or so we thought in the past. The new team though met up with Wade through mental images she was sending Rembrandt. She made a wormhole to bring them to the Kromagg world she was on. When they go there and found her she was a mangled mass of metal and flesh. The Kromagg's programmed her with the ability to create wormholes through her imagination. She however, turned on them, and is now supposedly free or dead.

Rembrandt Brown

Rembrandt Lee Brown was born in the deep South with a younger brother, Cezanne. Cezanne and Rembrandt suffered a bitter rivalry that continued into their adulthood. Despite his brother's ridicule, Rembrandt showed a talent for singing early on and decided to pursue a musical career. At seventeen, Rembrandt was in a group called Little Rembrandt and the Chandelles. He only spent a few years with the group before enlisting in the Navy. He spent enough time there to acquire basic skills in demolitions, weapons, and combat training, then left on a USO tour.

Rembrandt didn't achieve true stardom until the late 1960's. Rembrandt became the lead singer of an R&B group known as the Spinning Topps. There, along with members Maurice Fish, Sebastin Smith, and Leroy Hopkins, Rembrandt was catapulted into stardom with such hit songs as Cry Like A Man. Rembrandt gained the nickname "Crying Man," both because of his tearful singing, and his ability to cry real tears at will out of each eye individually. Presumably, it was during this time that he acquired a red Cadillac with a vanity license plate that reads CRYN MAN.

His first solo album, Toppless, was released in 1973 with the single Tears In My 'Fro. By September, the record had sold 100,000 copies. Buoyed by this success, Rembrandt finally left the Spinning Topps in 1983. Ignoring the promises of stardom from a manager named Captain Jack Brim, Rembrandt went with another manager, Artie Feld, who did less than that. While the remaining Spinning Topps went on to greatness, releasing fifteen hit albums, Rembrandt's career faded.

By September 27th, 1995, his career had fallen to the point where singing the National Anthem at a Giants game was considered his "big comeback." Rembrandt was driving to the stadium in his Caddie when he was seen accidentally driving into the vortex. He then began sliding with the others, trying to find his way home. He soon did, but his world was overrun with Kromaggs. Quinn saved him from the Krommags, and now Rembrandt slides to try to find a weapon that can kill the Kromaggs and return his world to normal.

He did soon find that weapon. They had to use it though to kill the Kromaggs on a planet known as "Purgatory." So now Rembrandt has to find another weapon to get home and save his people.

Maxamillion Arturo

Maximillian P. Arturo was born in the United Kingdom during the turbulent days of World War II. Near the close of the war, Arturo and his mother went out to the country to visit relatives. That night, the house was bombed by enemy planes. Arturo's mother was killed when she shielded him from the blast with her body.

With his father fighting in India, Arturo's rescuers had no way of identifying him. He was placed in an orphanage for four months. Though his father eventually returned to take him home, Arturo carried the fear and horror of being abandoned for the rest of his life.

Arturo loathed the freewheeling, revolutionary days of the 1960's, but managed to survive it long enough to get an education in quantum physics. In graduate school, he met and fell in love with a woman named Christina Fox. But a few years later, she died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 27. Losing his one true love deeply affected his life, causing him to focus on his work instead of women. His dedication brought him international acclaim for his theories on superstring theory and cosmic wormholes.

In 1991, Arturo immigrated to the United States, where he took a position as a professor of cosmology and ontology at the University of California in San Francisco. There, Arturo finally met his match with a young student named Quinn Mallory.

In his first year of teaching, Arturo was giving a lecture to a group of American scientists. During the lecture, Quinn asked a question that challenged his theories, and infuriated Arturo. However, when Arturo went to look up the answer, he was shocked to discover that Quinn was right. Quinn's intellect succeeded in cracking the shell Arturo had formed around himself, bringing them slightly closer than any of his other students.

But on September 27, 1995, Arturo was shocked when Quinn entered his classroom and began criticizing his theories. Then Quinn returned a few minutes later, seemingly oblivious to his insults. Furious, Arturo stormed out of the class, but had a change of heart a few hours later. He went to Quinn's home to await an apology, where he disappeared. He began sliding with Quinn and Wade. When they slid into a world of ice though, and would not be able to survive, they rigged the timer to get home early and lost the co-ordinates to their homeworld. So the four of them began to try to get home. But when a madman on an alternate earth fed off of Arturo, it left him mentally crippled, and as Rickmin, the madman who made Arturo the way he had become, tried to shoot Quinn, Arturo took the bullet for Quinn, and died.

Maggie Beckett

Captain Maggie Beckett was born on an alternate Earth from the other four Sliders, one in which the war between the United States and Russia did not end. As the only child of a military general, Beckett aspired to live up to her father's greatness. To this end, Beckett became a skilled fighter pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps. But after building up a great service record, Beckett encountered something she had never expected - a brilliant physicist named Steven Jensen.

Jensen and Beckett fell in love, but their relationship began to drift apart as the two concentrated on their careers. Then in 1996, Jensen suffered a spinal injury during a skiing accident that paralyzed him from the waist-down and confined him to a wheelchair. While in the hospital, he begged Beckett to kill him, but she refused. Instead, he underwent intense physical therapy and rehab treatment, during which Beckett visited him every day. She eventually married Jensen, keeping her name out of respect for her father. She also resigned as a pilot in order to spend more time with Jensen.

She remained in military service by accepting a new position as an intelligence officer for a military base run by Colonel Rickman. During her service under Rickman, Beckett was forced to perform many duties that she found distasteful. Not the least of which was the concealment of the approach of a pulsar that would emit a powerful burst of radiation, wiping out every living thing in Russia. To achieve this, Beckett was assigned to watch over the discoverer of the pulsar, Dr. Jariabek. But Dr. Jariabek escaped. During his escape, Jariabek was shot and killed, but not before he was able to tell four people about his discovery - Quinn Mallory, Maximilian Arturo, Wade Welles, and Rembrandt Brown.

The Sliders and Beckett forged a grudging alliance when it was discovered that the pulsar was going to destroy her Earth. It was decided that they would use sliding to find a new homeworld. After several attempts, they found a new Earth to migrate several hundred people from her world. But they discovered too late that Rickman was a psychopath who killed Jensen and escaped into another dimension. Beckett agreed to travel with the Sliders until they found Rickman and avenged her husband's death. After many slides they soon found Rickman and stopped him.

Then the sliders returned to Earthprime, which had been overrun by Kromaggs. But Maggie, Rembrandt, and Quinn escaped and began sliding to find Quinn's homeworld, and a weapon to defeat the Kromaggs. But along the way something went wrong. Quinn merged with his double, and they are now "Mallory" and Quinn's brother Colin is lost in the multi-verse. Now Maggie, Rembrandt, Mallory, and his friend Diana are sliding to free Quinn and Colin, stop Geiger, get to Quinn's homeworld, and stop the Kromaggs.

Colin Mallory

Colin Mallory is Quinn's brother. They were born on an alternate world (not Earth Prime), and their parents were sliders. Their mother and father sent their children to separate alternate worlds to be raised by their duplicates. They returned two years later to retrieve their sons, but Quinn's adoptive parents hid him, and Colin's became ill and died, so when Collin was quite young he lived with a lot of different people and moved around alot. As a result, when and if the advanced-world Mallorys did come looking for him, they didn't know where to look.

The world Colin grew up on is not as technologically advanced as Earth Prime. There are no wires going to the houses, no pavement; the only vehicles are wagons. The people are not Amish -- they haven't turned their backs on modern science, their science just isn't as modern as ours. The people of this world think such modern things as electricity and hang gliders are the devil's work (performed by Colin).

Colin is a tinkerer -- a jack of all trades. On his world, he invented the hang glider, and has performed experiments with electricity. He also invented a Wimhurst machine -- one of the first devices to generate electricity by induction and store it in jars.

What is sad though is that Colin's "life" was brought to a short end when a scientist known as Dr. Geiger was doing an experiment. He messed with the Sliders' wormhole and made Colin become unstuck. Colin is now floating through the multi-verse unanchored and unable to find his brother and friends.

Diana Davis

Diana Davis was Assistant Director at Geiger Applied Research, working for Dr. Oberon Geiger. The accident that caused Colin to become unstuck, and our Quinn to be merged with Mallory, is the result of the experiments she performed with Dr. Geiger. Another of their experiments led to Mallory being cured of muscular dystrophy, by combining his DNA with healthy DNA from one of Quinn's/Mallory's alternates.

Diana now slides with the Sliders in an effort to separate Quinn and Mallory and help her newfound friends in their journey.

"Mallory"

Mallory is an alternate of our Quinn Mallory. He is not a scientist -- he's more of a lab rat. He was in a wheelchair, suffering a previously incurable strain of muscular dystrophy, until Dr. Oberon Geiger used a machine called "The Combine" to extract healthy DNA from a trans-dimensional alternate of Quinn's. Geiger and Dr. Diana Davis selectively combined the new DNA to completely cure Mallory. As a result of another of Dr. Geiger's experiments, Mallory has been combined at the subatomic level with our Quinn Mallory.

As of the first episode of the fifth season, the two Quinns share knowledge and memories, in a way -- at different times one Quinn or the other takes control of the body, though they both did appear to coexist.