List of Sliders characters

This is a list of Sliders characters, a science fiction television show that aired on the Fox network for three seasons and the Sci Fi Channel for two seasons. The show starred Jerry O'Connell as Quinn Mallory, a college student who builds a device that can transport himself and others to parallel worlds. Due to the nature of the show's similar worlds conceit, several actors appear as different versions of the same character. The following is a list of actors who have appeared on Sliders.

Main cast

Regulars

Recurring

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. 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".
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 ?" which Quinn denied. In "The Exodus, Part Two", Dr. Stephen Jensen 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 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.