shall we discuss a tv series that blew my mind way back in 1996? It had wormholes, parallel erffs, aliens who turn out to be cro-mags (the rival species to modern homo sapiens back in the ice age)… way cool…
UPDATE : hey y’all ! I’ve come across the one-stop-shop solution for all things Sliders!
Just as Gateworld is the epitome for all things & sundry related to the Stargate franchise, this site seems promising to be the same for the now-defunct Sliders show.
I present to you : Earth Prime
Here’s a little sample from the website : A review of the episode called, “The Exodus Part I”
Fans of the show would have heard of the internal politicking that proved to be the downfall of the series; but I was stunned to learn how much hard-science-fact that John Rhys-Davies actually knows. (Yes, he, of Lord of the Rings & Indiana Jones fame).
There’s an inside scoop of how Rhys-Davies wrote the treatment for this episode yet grew to resent it. In particular,
“It ended up having a quasar coming into the solar system,” he complains. “I said, ‘Do you know what a quasar is?’ They said, ‘Yeah, it’s something small and it rotates fast.’ I said, ‘Yes, but it’s actually a neutron star. It’s a collapsed star that has a mass of about 1.4 to four times the mass of the Sun. It’s not big enough to create a black hole. It is immensely dense and, of course, will consequently have an immense force of gravity. You cannot bring a star into the solar system without throwing everything off. And at the end, you’ve got a cluster of neutron stars coming through.’ I also said, ‘This thing about radiation is nonsense.’ They said, ‘But it spins fast!’ I said, ‘Yes, but you have it spinning once every 24 hours.’ Some of them spin 32 times a second. With the kind of radiation that would generate, you can’t hide underground. The radiation would go through the Earth, for God’s sake.’ I just wasn’t very happy with the show.”