Quinn Mallory

Quinn Mallory (born August or September 1973) is a fictional character on the television show Sliders. He was played by Jerry O'Connell.

Background

Quinn Mallory is from San Francisco, and attended UC Berkeley 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 refers to this technology as "sliding". On September 27 he went through the vortex with his friend Wade Welles and professor Maximillian Arturo. Rembrandt Brown happened to be traveling in the area and was accidently pulled into the vortex. The four of them landed on an earth where San Francisco was in an ice age. There was a deadly tornado heading their way, but because of the way the sliding technology functions, their 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, they had to reset the timer, and lose the ability to go home. For the next five years, Quinn and the others slide randomly to each world with a fixed amount of time on each one, hoping each slide will be the slide home.

Personality

From 1994 to 1996 Quinn was very wide-eyed and eccentric. In late 1996 Quinn became less quirky and more of an action hero.

Relationships

Wade Welles 

Even though his friend Wade had a crush on him he could not tell.

Maximillian Arturo 

When Arturo and Quinn began sliding together, Arturo became like a father to Quinn. For this reason, Quinn was hurt very much when Arturo was shot by Angus Rickman in 1997.

Rembrandt Brown 

At first, Quinn and Rembrandt didn't get along. Rembrandt was angry with Quinn for dragging him into sliding and taking him away from his home. After this, Quinn and Rembrandt became very good friends.

Distant Origin

In 1998, Quinn learned that he is not originally from the Earth he believed he was from (commonly referred to as earth prime). As it turns out, he is from another earth where humans and Kromaggs coexisted, but 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.

The Unstuck Man

In late 1998 or early 1999, in the season five episode "The Unstuck Man", Quinn and his brother Colin were unwillingly part of an experiment by Oberon Geiger to merge people and worlds together. As a result of this experiment, Quinn was merged with a double of his (although his double's personality became dominant). After this double of Quinn 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. Dr. Geiger said that the two have been merged for too long and the only way to bring Quinn back would require killing his double. Rembrandt said that Quinn wouldn't want that, so Dr. Geiger ended the experiment and Quinn was presumed to be gone for good.