Kromagg - Key Episodes

Key Episodes

  • "Invasion": The Sliders' first encounter with the Kromaggs results in hostilities. Although this episode doesn't directly refute future established facts, it suggests that Kromaggs have never seen humans before learning the sliding technology and that their invasions have successfully continued for at least a generation. Both of those facts are somehow challenged in episodes to follow.
  • "The Other Slide of Darkness": It is revealed that Quinn's double (from the premiere episode) gave the Kromaggs access to sliding technology. After this, they destroyed his home and forbade humans from possessing the knowledge.
  • "Genesis": We learn that the Kromaggs slid to Earth Prime about two months earlier and took over the planet. It is also revealed that Kromaggs originated on an Earth where they co-existed with humans (called Kromagg Prime in the series), and that Quinn Mallory is actually from that Earth.
  • "Common Ground": Shortly upon arriving on this Earth, Maggie Beckett saves the life of a Kromagg, and then the sliders are taken as prisoners. However, they are punished less severely since Maggie saved the life of a Kromagg. On this Earth, the Kromaggs have taken humanity hostage and are testing a weapon on the native population. The Kromaggs also learn that Quinn has the tracking device implanted in him from his stay on Earth 113, which the Kromaggs want to use to go back to Kromagg Prime.
  • "Slidecage": The sliders intend to go to Quinn and Colin Mallory's homeworld (Kromagg Prime), but get caught in the slidecage instead. The slidecage was invented by Michael Mallory and is a place where people who attempt to slide to Kromagg Prime are bounced back to without the ability to leave. The intent of the slidecage is to block Kromaggs from returning to their homeworld, but as a safety precaution, they have to block humans as well. The slidecage was dominated by both Kromaggs and humans who are constantly having battles with each other.
  • "Asylum": This is the first episode where the sliders encounter a world that had been visited by Kromaggs but where the Kromaggs did not destroy the world and take humanity hostage. On this Earth, their version of Margaret Thatcher negotiated with the Kromaggs, and agreed to give the Kromaggs natural resources, and in exchange the Kromaggs would leave this Earth alone. Since then, people collaborating with the Kromaggs were termed "Thatchers".
  • "The Dying Fields": Kromagg/human hybrids are being trained to kill humans. "Pure" Kromaggs are disappointed by the apparent failure in the humanity their subjects possess.
  • "Mother and Child": The first time we hear the term "Humagg", for half-human/half-Kromaggs, it refers to a baby born from a Kromagg father and human mother. When they return to the mother's world, the baby starts to die due to a virus that permeates the atmosphere, that kills only Kromaggs. It is also revealed that a lingering after-effect of the weapon used to drive the Kromaggs from Kromagg Prime - not this world - caused every Kromagg pregnancy to be fatal to the mother, explaining the true importance of their breeding camps.
  • "Revelations": An alternate version of the Kromaggs is revealed to be of limited intelligence and were generally docile. On their version of Kromagg Prime (called "Kromagg Double Prime") these Kromaggs were victims of a purge by the humans of their world.
  • "Requiem": While the Sliders relax in a garden waiting for the next slide, Rembrandt receives a message in his mind from former slider Wade. Leading to encountering the Kromaggs for the last time. In this world they meet the first female Kromagg. The Kromaggs are developing slide technology powered by the human body. This sort of technology would allow the Kromaggs to return to Kromagg Prime, bypassing the slidecage, as it is based on a different principle of interdimensional travel.
  • "The Seer": In the last episode of the series, the sliders land on a world that has defeated the Kromaggs with a virus. The entire population on this Earth carries the virus in their blood. A native person of this Earth drew some blood from himself and gave it to Rembrandt, who injected himself with it and slid to Earth Prime in an attempt to free Earth Prime from the Kromaggs. It was not revealed in the episode if Rembrandt was successful.

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