Slide by Wire

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Sliders: Season Four: Slide by Wire

The Sliders slide off a militaristic Earth where the U.S.A. is battling the Soviet Union -- only to land upon a world where possession of any technology is punishable by death. And Quinn, Rembrandt, and Colin don't realize that the Maggie that slid with them is a double who's fled from her oppressive Earth. Trapped on that world, "our" Maggie discovers that her double was a pilot who flew her complex fighter through a direct (and dangerous) cybernetic link to the brain -- and if her lack of such a link is discovered, she'll be executed as a spy. On the plus side, Maggie gets to meet her husband, Stephen (whom Colonel Rickman murdered in "Exodus, Part II"), and finally say goodbye.
By Robert Donahou on Friday, January 22, 1999 - 11:40 am:

How long did it take it them to figure out that Maggie didn't have an implant.


By cboooton on Friday, June 11, 1999 - 10:18 pm:

Found a 47, Maggie says to meet them at gate 47.

Why do I get the idea that on the other earth there was some sort of Nuclear incident and this is why they have banned technology? And if they truly hate it why not go after people who make it?


By D. Stuart on Saturday, July 03, 1999 - 8:26 am:

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) During the commencement Capt. Margaret Beckett's double removes her top and places on a reddish one. Then in a sequential scene, she is streaking down a flight of stairs donning black skintight pants. She was previously donning a skirt, and the attire was being changed as she went along. Do you mean to tell me that she was removing her skirt and placing on the pants while hopping downstairs?
2) As Capt. Margaret Beckett's double is removing the alleged self-reliant computer chip and is later to be uncovered by Rembrandt Brown, the chip socket situated on her neck is nearly removed with the computer chip. Did the militaristic scientists intend to install those chip sockets so loosely?
3) Why is that gray-hooded executioner in the anti-technology dimension, who is reading from the book of Diablo prior to having Rembrandt Brown executed, nodding his head during Quinn Mallory's "technology is a tool...it's neither good nor evil" speech?
4) I found this episode quite resemblant to the Star Trek: The Original Series episode in which a book is stranded on a planet and consequently causes the inhabitants to lead their lives as according to the book, which is a book regarding the Mafia. The same applies to this anti-technology world, considering they had based their entire culture and behavior on a book that was apparently one pertaining to a business organization or some type of PC game (e.g., Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, etc.).


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