I still use Twitter; and since Elon Musk “unlocked it”, I have seen much of this long lived Qanon-sense showing up in my feed.   There’s been an uptick lately as the long awaited big event is expected to be imminent.  “Buckle up”.

The idea here is that there has been a clandestine military operation in effect for years gathering evidence and holding secret tribunals amassing sealed indictments to release all at once.  At last tally, these sealed indictments are over 700,000. Everyone from politicians to celebrities to royalty are included.

The date of note has now leaked.  On Saturday, the emergency broadcast system will be activated telling everyone to stay in their homes as martial law is declared and mass arrests across the world begin.  The EBS will take over all television and phones and broadcast the evidence along with live executions 24/7 until all corruption is eliminated.  As part of this, the US Dollar and financial systems will change as well; and that’s supposed to begin tomorrow with an announcement from the BRICS summit in Russia.

What if this actually did happen?  What if the Sliders land on a world as this begins?  What if the EBS on the store window tv shows one of our Sliders being arrested as part of the 700,000 indictments?  How do they explain they are a different person who did none of those things?  How do the Sliders themselves reconcile that there is some part of their friend that would do these crimes if history gave them the opportunity?

This is what Sliders is made for.  Exploring the unlikely things that can ever so briefly be seen as plausible because unlikely things do happen.  No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

There's something that's haunted me for years, something that I have wondered about but been afraid to ask. A quiet query of terror lodged in my mind, a splinter in my psyche that casts flickers of uncertainty that makes me question everything we are and everything we do.

There is a question that I have been afraid to contemplate or even ask... but I feel we have arrived at the moment where it not only can be asked, it must be asked.

Temporal Flux, do you think the three spider-wasps that made it to the 60s Earth in "Summer of Love" reproduced, spread and destroyed human civilization? Did the sliders leave hippies on this Earth with a guardedly hopeful enlightenment only for them to all be mutilated or killed by the spider-wasps?

I've been very worried about this for awhile.

My own answer here is not meant in any way to take away from Temporal Flux's answer which I know will be outstanding, but there is a chance that the only Spider Wasps to arrive through the portal with the Sliders are the males, thereby removing any possibility of reproduction.

Then again, there's also the nightmare scenario where an enterprising scientist on that world gets the idea to bioengineer a female version of the giant species to help propagate its reproduction...

There is a question that I have been afraid to contemplate or even ask... but I feel we have arrived at the moment where it not only can be asked, it must be asked.

Temporal Flux, do you think the three spider-wasps that made it to the 60s Earth in "Summer of Love" reproduced, spread and destroyed human civilization? Did the sliders leave hippies on this Earth with a guardedly hopeful enlightenment only for them to all be mutilated or killed by the spider-wasps?

I've been very worried about this for awhile.

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation … 75366.html

The moon could have caused World War 3

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Might be

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont_ … on_Network

DuMont is the forgotten fourth network partnered with Paramount Pictures.  They filmed some 20,000 episodes of television between 1942 and 1952.  That library included the first ever tv sitcom, first TV game show and the first minority focused programming (including black and Asian hosts of programs).  DuMont was also where Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners was born (though the actual series was later greenlit by CBS).

All of the DuMont Network film library was dumped in the East River of New York City - considered garbage.  It’s still there, and a small portion has been excavated by divers.

In another reality, scientists were inspired by Looney Tunes.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/23 … nto-space/

We can accomplish most anything with inspirations to drive us.

I was recently having a discussion with a gentleman who runs the front desk of a hotel. His name is Charlie. I asked Charlie: how would the sliders go about getting hotel rooms when they have no ID and no credit cards that would function on a parallel Earth? Charlie replied that his hotel and most would likely not allow the sliders to rent a room without ID and credit or debit. Hotels require a form of payment that can be charge for "incidentals" in the event that the guest smashes up the room or steals all the furniture and has to be charged for repairs and replacements, and that no prepaid card or card without matching ID would be accepted nor would cash be suitable (because a few hundred dollars in cash might not cover the cost of potential repairs for reckless or destructive guests).

I protested: what if Charlie were hired by the writers of SLIDERS to find a loophole to get the sliders a room? Charlie replied that there is no loophole.

I asked: could Charlie be bribed with cash? Charlie replied that no amount of cash the sliders might carry on their person would induce him to risk his own job or to shoulder the cost of the potential incidentals.

I told Charlie that he was a lousy friend because if the positions were reversed, the sliders would find some way to get Charlie a room in order to progress the plot and then I wondered if there might be a DECLASSIFIED-brand solution.

I absolutely love this. LOL

I protested: what if Charlie were hired by the writers of SLIDERS to find a loophole to get the sliders a room? Charlie replied that there is no loophole.

I asked: could Charlie be bribed with cash? Charlie replied that no amount of cash the sliders might carry on their person would induce him to risk his own job or to shoulder the cost of the potential incidentals.

I told Charlie that he was a lousy friend because if the positions were reversed, the sliders would find some way to get Charlie a room in order to progress the plot and then I wondered if there might be a DECLASSIFIED-brand solution.

I'm relieved that you note that the conspiracy is indeed nonsense as COVID is an airborne virus, but even then, the World Health Organization nonsensically took two years to acknowledge that transmission was not merely droplet based but aerosol driven as well, and in the absence of authoritative acceptance of obvious fact, people will fill in those gaps with randomness.

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The short of it - COVID-19 is not a virus and instead cobra venom dumped into the water supply.  As most conspiracy theories do, they make some compelling arguments, but they overlook one thing.  Even in targeted areas, I can scarcely imagine the scope and scale of the operation needed to dump sufficient amounts of venom to effect this.  The entire public would have to be “in on it” and making it happen.

And that’s when it hit me, and this is the reason I look at these things.  This could be a good Sliders story.

Years ago on Turner Classic Movies, I watched a 1936 film on the life of Louis Pasteur:

https://youtu.be/zeO8ZOYTa3k

The film depicts how Pasteur was treated as a mad man for pointing out the simple reality that germs exist.  Before and after the movie, they also had commentary and shorts discussing Pasteur’s theories about intentionally poisoning the body in measured amounts to kill the illness without killing the host.  These ideas would later develop into our medical treatments today (most well known as chemotherapy for cancer).

Our medical history and advancement accepts that poison can cure.  If civilization had accepted this concept sooner and on a broader scale, how could it have been applied?  Might we have developed some form of snake venom to dump in the water supply to act as a prophylactic against certain diseases?

Our Sliders land on this world and start to get sick one after another.  They begin to be seen as patients zero of some unknown illness that can’t be explained; but the truth is that their bodies aren’t conditioned to the venom in the water.  The cure for them is to stop using the water and get away from that world; but can they do it in a world growing increasingly afraid of the “disease” they carry?

As for why civilization would have taken this path accepting snake venom?  It’s an interesting thing also mentioned in my co-worker’s video.  Many see snakes as evil, and that’s rooted in religion (The Garden of Eden).  What if there is a world where people didn’t blame the snake?  In Demonic possession stories, we see the person as the victim. Why isn’t the snake a victim?

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How would Temporal Flux write a SLIDERS story satirizing NFTs?

I don't know how; I just know that it would be awesome. :-)

I started thinking about it, and it led me to an idea adjacent.

Sports like NASCAR are the more professional example, but many every day people place value in branding themselves with corporate logos.  Air Jordans.  Shirts with soft drink logos.  Underwear with super heroes.  But what if reverse psychology gave this desire a deeper meaning?

What if corporate sponsorship was used to sell a social credit system to Americans?  You want to wear Air Jordans like your favorite basketball star?  You can’t just buy it.  Improve your image.  Eat right.  Be kind to people.  Don’t lie.  Don’t cheat.  Live up to the brand.  It could create a way to differentiate people at a glance without it being forced.  What were they proudly wearing of their own decision?

I’m reluctant to do “the Sliders got arrested” stories, but this could be about survival.  The Sliders would have to explore their flaws (finding some they didn’t even realize they had); and unless they can improve themselves, they won’t get access to the resources they need to survive until the timer activates.  Some Sliders are better at this than others.  The best of them might barely scrape by or even fail at changing themselves.  The worst of them may meet the criteria by accident much to the chagrin of the group

You would have multiple opportunities for character journeys that end in change, and you could have some “helping people” scenarios that would fit more naturally into a Sliders story.  Of course, the comedy would come with the people not wanting the Sliders’ help, or the difference in culture leading the Sliders to hinder people instead of helping.

But the true beauty of this idea is from a production stand point.  If you played your cards right (pitching companies on the image they’ll get in the episode), the episode could probably pay for itself in product placement.

I don't know how; I just know that it would be awesome. :-)