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Modernizing and improving a cheaply made series with potential can and has been done.  Did you not see Battlestar Galactica?

I think we're more or less on the same wavelength here.  The Sliders were surely intended to be heroic and it came through most of the time in the first two seasons.  The reason the outside writers had trouble maintaining that was the lack of a clearly defined ethos for the characters.  That's what prevents them from being iconic.

Whether you consider the Sliders superheroes depends on how you define the term.

Traditionally a superhero is defined as a character with a distinctive costume, enhanced abilities, and the moral strength to be good for good reasons.  The Sliders clearly do not qualify here.

Some define it more narrowly, saying a superhero is a benevolent character with superhuman abilities.  Again the Sliders do not qualify.

A broader definition, such as a superhero is a character who has an increased capacity to act and exert power and to demonstrate agency, could include the Sliders but would require more defined characters.  To demonstrate agency one must be an agent of some ideology.  The Sliders don't have a guiding philosophy that directs their actions.  They don't really stand for anything.

Where have you been?

The concept of someone going sliding to find something/someone they've lost is interesting.

Of course what you find in an alternate universe isn't the same as what you had.  It will always be a little different.  But it might be close enough for closure.

There's also the prospect that taking what you value from another world means someone there will now miss it, starting the cycle over again.

In any event, Quinn would comfort Laurel by talking about how he came to accept his own father's death.

I wonder if they're going to retire the Alan Rickman impression now

Looking forward to you doing season five.  I don't hate it the way some people do.

There was a clue on Jeopardy last night about the Einstein-Rosen bridge.  They left out Podolski, which probably isn't why the contestant missed it.

You're trying to introduce the concept of doubles before you've established the premise of the show.  You're going to have new people thinking it's about time travel.

That's going to be very confusing and off putting to new viewers.

I think recasting is the best way to go.

I agree that ireactions is unnecessarily harsh sometimes.

On further reflection re: once per season having old sliders as guest stars, it would probably be better not to have Diana, Maggie, and Mallory still on Seer World 20 years later.  Maybe have Diana and Mallory back on their home world, having given up sliding after splitting Quinn from Mallory, then in season six have Maggie and Quinn still sliding randomly happening to appear on the same world as the New!Sliders.

You wouldn't do them all at once.  Maybe one (or one group) per season.

Season one.  The New!Sliders arrive on a world with an Azure Gate Bridge.  They meet an aging professor who was accidentally left here years ago by another group of sliders.  He's done well for himself here, introducing velcro to a world that had not invented it made him quite wealthy, and considering his mid 70's age declines to slide out with the group.  This would have to be a part of some larger story set on this world.

Season two.  The New!Sliders meet a woman who can open vortexes with her mind.  She was a Kromagg captive but escaped and has been on the run from them for many years.  The new group help her escape a nefarious Kromagg trap.  They end up going their separate ways as the woman does not want to endanger any more people by having them travel with her.  It's possible they could cross paths with her again in a future episode.

Season three.  The New!Sliders appear in a park at the foot of a statue commemorating the savior of the world, Rembrandt Brown.  They find out he was also a slider and saved his world by returning with an anti-Kromagg virus in his blood.  Old!Rembrandt is dead, so New!Rembrandt is feted as his replacement and encouraged to stay.  Storywise it's kind of a cross between The Return of Maggie Beckett and The Seer.  The Guardian and Dust established that slight differences in the speed of the Earth's rotation can put the sliders in a world where their duplicates are a different age.  The New!Sliders learn that Old!Rembrandt came from Seer world as a setup for a later episode.

Season four.  The New!Sliders feel something odd in the transit to the world they land on, as if there was a fifth person in the wormhole.  Despite that, just the four arrive on this Amish world.  Once they start exploring they see visions of a man they don't know.  The locals see it also.  They know who it is and believe it to be the ghost of a man named Colin Mallory.  New!Quinn and New!Professor don't believe in ghosts.  They believe the man must have gotten unstuck somehow and work to restore him to this, his home world.  Of course they meet resistance from the locals, who see their technology as witchcraft.

Season five.  The New!Sliders come to a world where there is a philosophy known as Slidology, based on another group of sliders whose activities were envisioned by man known as the seer.  One of the four Old!Sliders left but the other three have been prevented from leaving by Slidology's leader, Claire LeBeau.  She's wealthy and influential and has access to a bunch of old Kromagg gear left behind when the people of this world drove them out with a virus, which is more than enough to keep the remaining Old!Sliders from leaving.  New!Quinn helps them build a more advanced timer, like the one the New!Sliders have, than can bypass the force field LeBeau uses to cap wormholes and let them escape.  Before the groups split, New!Rembrandt tells the Old!Sliders the fate of Old!Rembrandt from their season three adventure.

Well. no, he's clearly heard of it...

He knows what the Force is, he just doesn't believe in it.  Obi-Wan might as well be talking about a flying reindeer with a red nose as far as Han is concerned.

Rey knew the legends of Jedi and the Force, including the Mind Trick.  Her encounter with Luke's light saber and Ren's mental probes had let her know she had Force sensitivity.  So she gave it a shot.

That's what Obi-Wan's ghost was telling him to do.  Luke of A New Hope certainly never questioned what anyone else told him to do.

Luke went chasing after R2-D2 early one morning.  By late afternoon of the same day he was blowing up the Death Star.  I'd say he learned very quickly.

Rey, OTOH, had almost nothing to do with destroying the Starkiller Base.

All of the Star Wars films have had substantial plot holes.  The Force Awakens is no worse than the others in that regard.

Rey will probably be Luke's daughter or something.  Honestly, though, there's limited evidence that force sensitivity is an inherited trait.

Perhaps if Sliders is remade they'll keep the same names but make Quinn a girl and Wade a boy.

Like Arthur C Clarke said; "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".  Of course Sliders already covered that with Into the Mystic, but it could be done again with a different twist.

That's also possible.

Being able to clone humans and not Kromaggs is defensible as well.  Kromagg DNA could be more complex.  Maybe they can clone Kromaggs but they know it's a dead end in terms of saving the species.  Replicative fading would set in after only a few generations.  Maybe they have ethical issues with cloning their own that they don't have with lesser species like humans.

The presence of the Colin double does not preclude the possibility that he is a clone of Quinn.  It just means the Colin double is also a Quinn double.  We know doubles don't always look like the characters.  See Logan St Clair and any time Rembrandt's double is played by Cleavant's brother.  The Kromaggs would have made the quickest and easiest adjustment to make Colin look different from Quinn, which means a Colin double is a likely look for a Quinn double.

It would have to be about a new cast.  No way could any of the old Sliders be central figures in a new series.

That having been said, I don't think it is required to completely break from the old series.  Given the premise, everything is potentially within its continuity.

Also to be considered, the professor would be in his 70's.  Rembrandt would be in his 60's.  Are they really going to be willing and able to participate in interdimensional adventure?  Any live action reboot will have to have some new characters.

Use Rembrandt as the wise old Slider telling the professor's granddaughter Max not to continue her experiments with recreating the technology.  She doesn't listen because she's heard (or read) his stories and is convinced her grandfather is still alive on Azure Gate Bridge world and she wants to bring him home.  Of course something goes wrong, causing Max and her friends to go sliding randomly through the multiverse...

Realistically, an organization developing sliding is far more likely than a college kid accidentally inventing it in his basement.  It could be a government operation, a private group, or even an NGO.  I suppose you could make the show about a team from an organization that gets lost.  That would still mean a more prepared and equipped group than the original gang.

Some of them are older than that.  Any of them could be given a Sliders spin.

So, actual ideas...

Something akin to "The Weaker Sex" except played seriously.  A world where the women are dominant physically; bigger, stronger, faster like the men are on our world.

A world where the atmosphere is intoxicating to some of the Sliders.  Rembrandt has to keep things together when Quinn, Wade, the professor are "drunk" because of the air.

A world entirely populated by androids, where the organic population died out long ago.

A world where there was recently a biological war and one side released a germ that killed all the adults, only children remain.  Once the kids come of age they die, and the Sliders catch it as well!

A world where the Greek Gods were real.  Except they weren't Gods at all, just people who invented advanced technology and used it to keep the rest of the population as their worshipers/slaves.  And their descendants have kept up the practice.

A world that rotates much faster than ours, causing the Sliders to age rapidly.

A world where the Roman Empire never fell, and now uses modern technology to stream gladiatorial battles and the like.

A world where some renegade Kromaggs don't kill humans, they use them as entertainment by forcing them to fight to the death while the Maggs wager on the results.

A world where there has been an ecological disaster and the few remaining humans live underground in a controlled environment.  Unfortunately, the computer that runs everything is failing and they've lost the capability to repair it.  Easy job for Quinn, if only there was enough time.  The locals, however, won't allow him to leave until he's fixed it.

It would depend on what causes divergences.  Not every action that happens causes an alternate world in which that action doesn't happen.  Not only would it be cosmologically unwieldy, you'd end up with bunches of Earths that were functionally identical.  The Sliders think they're home until they meet one of their doubles after they miss the window, never finding out the only difference between this world and theirs is 500 years ago a man in Budapest dropped a coin that landed on heads instead of tails.  That would also make for dull storytelling.

You could make it simpler and just say a vortex can only form between Earths that are ecologically similar.  If needed you could even specify ranges of temperature or gravity or radiation or air pressure or whatever.

I guess I misunderstood what you were looking for.  I was thinking about what the pilot for a new series would look like.  The natural thing for fans of the show to want would be to have a reunion show of the original sliders.  I could see a that concept being used as a springboard for a new version with new characters.  Maybe keep one of the old characters if the actor is willing.  If Tembi Locke would rather play Diana than do more State Farm commercials and TV walkons I'm not going to tell her no.

People have a way of hearing what they want to hear.  She could be excited about new worlds and different people.  The Kromaggs would have been eliminated from her Earth when she was a preschooler, she might assume it's the same everywhere.  Besides, she's not hearing all the details of Rembrandt sliding, she just knows he left then came back to save the world.  What could be more inspiring than that?  Maybe Rembrandt even tries to tell her and she just doesn't listen because she's hard headed like her grandfather.  Maybe she does hear some details and believes her grandfather is still alive on Azure Gate Bridge world, so she sets out to find him.

As for her being named Max, that's negotiable.  I just think it's a nice nod to the old show.