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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sliders_5x03.png]]
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3	Originally aired June 25, 1999
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5	Written by Keith Damron
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7	Directed by Richard Compton
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9	The Sliders arrive in a barren wasteland where the countdown on the timer is frozen. Worse, they're forced to join a ceaseless conflict between Kromaggs and human soldiers from Kromagg Prime, who are guarding a mysterious bunker.
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11	!!Tropes present in the episode:
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13	%%* ApocalypseHow
14	* BreakTheCutie: What happens when Diana, a perky nerd, is thrown into a war.
15	* DespairEventHorizon: Rembrandt gives up all hope after learning the truth about the anti-Kromagg weapon. He's able to pull it together enough during the climax, but he's still quite depressed in the final scene.
16	* DownerEnding: With the anti-Kromagg weapon flawed, Rembrandt is left lamenting that he's run out of chances.
17	* HowWeGotHere: The episode starts with a sight of a shell-shocked Diana in a tent, then flashes back to the Sliders stepping out of the vortex.
18	* InSpiteOfANail: One of the biggest of the series. Two sentient species, humans and Kromaggs, evolved on Kromagg Prime. In spite of this rather big historical divergence, that world seemingly still has Creator/RobinWilliams, the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books (possibly the [[Franchise/LandOfOz many adaptations]] including [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the 1939 film]] too) and Eliot Ness and the Untouchables (again, possibly [[Series/TheUntouchables the television series]] and [[Film/TheUntouchables the film]] based upon their exploits as well).
19	* MacGuffin: The bunker. No one really knows what is inside, which doesn't keep humans and Kromaggs from fighting each other to death over it.
20	* ShaggyDogStory: The search for the anti-Kromagg weapon invented by Michael Mallory ends up becoming this in this episode: it's revealed that the weapon is very effective not only against the Kromaggs, but also against every other living thing on the planet. Rembrandt, who was looking for this weapon for over a year in hopes of saving Earth Prime, is understandably bummed out.
21	* TheReveal: The climax reveals the bunker is housing the anti-Kromagg weapon.
22	* WrongGenreSavvy: Larson initially believes the Sliders to be from his own world.

Context Recap / SlidersS05E03StrangersAndComrades