The Season 5 cast. From left to right: Maggie Beckett, Rembrandt Brown, Dr. Diana Davis and Mallory
In Season 5 of Sliders, with Jerry O'Connell and Charlie O'Connell stricken from the cast list, the writers decided to simply lose Colin Mallory in the vortex, and fuse Quinn Mallory with his counterpart on a new world, who is the only duplicate to not look anything like Quinn (other than Logan St. Clair, the female double of Quinn, in the Season 3 episode, "Double Cross"). Mallory has the combined personality of himself and the original Slider Quinn. He stays with the group throughout the season. While Mallory showed initial signs of acting like Quinn, this largely took a backseat to his own personality traits; the dual-identity crisis was reduced immensely until its resolution in "Eye of the Storm".
In the same episode ("The Unstuck Man"), scientist Dr. Diana Davis becomes the final Slider, feeling responsible for what happened to Mallory. They discover that the weapon created by Quinn's father, Michael Mallory, to defeat the Kromaggs on Kromagg Prime had the unintended consequence of destroying that planet's ecosystem, making its use on Earth Prime impractical.
In the middle of the fifth season, Wade Welles telepathically communicates with Rembrandt Brown, and is able to transport him and the other Sliders to the world that the Kromaggs are keeping her on. Wade was being used as an experiment by the Kromaggs in an attempt to liberate their homeworld. Rembrandt is unable to save Wade, but Wade is able to sabotage the experiment. Rembrandt reveals that he senses that Wade is gone.
The series concludes in a world where the sliders discover they are the subjects of a fanatical religion known as Slidology, founded by a man with psychic powers who has been able to follow them on their interdimensional adventures in his mind. Rembrandt (the only surviving original Slider) slides alone with a virus in his blood to fight the Kromaggs on his homeworld. Whether or not Rembrandt succeeds is never revealed.
Season 5 Cast[]
- Jerry O'Connell - Mallory
- Cleavant Derricks - Rembrandt Brown
- Kari Wührer - Maggie Beckett
- Tembi Locke - Diana Davis
Sliders Season 5 press photo
Season 5 Episodes[]
- The Unstuck Man
- Applied Physics
- Strangers and Comrades
- The Great Work
- New Gods For Old
- Please Press One
- A Current Affair
- The Java Jive
- The Return of Maggie Beckett
- Easy Slider
- Requiem
- Map of the Mind
- A Thousand Deaths
- Heavy Metal
- To Catch a Slider
- Dust
- Eye of the Storm
- The Seer
DVD[]
Season five was released on the Sliders - The Fifth and Final Season DVD and the Sliders - The Complete Series DVD.