Seaquest made Australia the bad guys not Sliders
Revisiting the show Sliders
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Seaquest made Australia the bad guys not Sliders
But why? What would they want from them? The Kromaggs had superior sliding technology and our group's home earth offered nothing special which they must have known because the earth they used as conquered earth prime was close enough to fool Rembrandt the entire time he was there.
This seems like the kind of show where it would be pretty easy to do something along the lines of the second Quantum Leap or even TNG and The original Star Trek, where it's set in the same universe or in this case multiverse, and we acknowledge the original, but it's a new cast with a new story. Maybe someone stumbles across Quinn's old notes and recreates the sliding technology, and goes off sliding with a new group of characters. This way they can possibly run into original cast members, and possibly even revisit Earths from the original series, but they still have room to do their own thing and aren't tied down by the original too much.
I kinda laugh, because it seems like most spin offs approach this one of two ways, they either really play up the connections to the original in the beginning with tons of crossovers and references, or it's almost completely separate from original with a minimum of connections. NCIS: LA and NCIS: Sydney are perfect examples of both approaches, the early seasons of LA were filled with tons of constant appearances by original NCIS cast members, but at the other extreme Sydney is three seasons in and has never even acknowledged that the other shows exist.
SeaQuest went off the rails.
To me if the goal is tight continuity with the earlier series (as DS9 could have had with TNG) then by all means have regular crossovers (which DS9 and TNG didn't really ultimately do, especially with later DS9 and the TNG films).
If the goal is more to acknowledge that they're set in the same continuity without making it a significant story element, though, then it's probably best to minimize the connections, and introducing too many too soon will just make it appear that the creators don't have confidence in the new series' ability to stand on its own.
In the episode of Sliders where all the men are dead the villains are Aussies.
OK thank you . I will have to have a watch again sometimes I remember cringing in parts of that one
Personally, I'd keep it to a minimum at least at first, with Quinn's Slider tech being the only real connection at first, but then as the seasons goes on I'd slowly start introducing the idea that he and the other original characters also used the technology, and then finally I'd end with a cliffhanger where the run into someone from the original cast. Jerry O' Connell would probably be the most well known of the original cast, but then they'd have to address how he got unsplit, unless they decided to just ignore the later seasons like Roseanne/The Connors or movies from long series like Terminator: Dark Fate.
The idea was that the Kromaggs had been defeated by the Humans they shared their world with and been exiled from it and the humans created the Slidecage to make sure no one could get through unless they wanted them to. They wanted to fool Quinn into thinking he was from that world since he was the smartest human who knew about sliding that WASN'T from their original homeworld in the hopes that he could find a way to deactivate the Slidecage and inadvertently let the Kromaggs retake their original world. Colin wasn't supposed to be his brother, but an altered clone of Quinn they created to spy on the Sliders and make sure their plan was working.
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