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Conrad Bennish, Jr. (Jason Gaffney) is from Earth Prime. In Sept 1994, after Quinn et al disappeared, the FBI asked Bennish to explain what some of the evidence that they'd uncovered meant. Bennish realized that Quinn had found a way to travel interdimensionally. (All this was depicted in �Summer of Love.�) He then explained the ERP Bridge and parallel dimensions to the investigating agents, but they didn�t buy his explanation and he was promptly sent on his way. As he was leaving, he secretly grabbed the FBI�s photographs of the formula written on Quinn�s blackboard and hid them in his jacket. A few hours later, after the FBI team had left to pursue other leads, Bennish returned to Quinn�s basement and erased the formula from the blackboard so the FBI wouldn�t be able to get a new picture of it. While there, he found and stole some blueprints of the sliding equipment that the FBI had overlooked. Bennish, distrustful of the government, felt they shouldn�t have sliding tech; besides, he wanted it for himself. He built his own timer based on the formula and blueprints, adding modifications along the way, and soon slid.

Though he could have returned home at any time, he preferred the adventure of sliding. But, after four years, Bennish�s sliding adventures came to an abrupt end. He became stranded when his timer was irreparably damaged in a dimension he dubbed �So-Close World"--it was similar to Earth Prime. A major personal difference was that this world�s Bennish had disappeared along with Quinn, Wade, Rembrandt, and Arturo. Our Bennish made the best of being stuck on So-Close World by assuming the identity of his lost double. He explained where �he� had been and made up a story about being separated from the rest of the Sliders and managing to find a way home. He �resumed his old life�, returning to the study of science and becoming the prot�g� of UC Berkeley�s Dr. Helen Donavan.

A year passed. Then in Feb 2001, So-Close Earth made contact with aliens--the Onkari. The Onkari quickly deemed humanity unready to venture into the cosmos and returned home, though they left behind a transmitter so Earth could contact them upon having become more advanced. Less than a month later, the KroMagg Dynasty arrived to conquer So-Close World. Having no way to defeat the Dynasty on its own, So-Close Earth contacted the Onkari for help. They refused, saying they wouldn't get involved in Earth�s internal conflicts. But then the Onkari learned that the KroMaggs had used interdimensional travel, and they suddenly became interested, for they wanted the technology. Bennish spoke up about having sliding technology and proposed to the Onkari that he would give it to them if they would repel the KroMagg invasion. Now having sufficient incentive to do so, the Onkari attacked the KroMaggs and defeated them in days. Bennish handed over the sliding technology, the Onkari left Earth, and Bennish became a hero.

Bennish soon began to realize how much he missed sliding. He thought he had put it all behind him, but the KroMagg/Onkari stuff had brought it all up again. The problem was that the data he had left on sliding, though enough to interest the Onkari, wasn�t complete. Several key components of the plans were missing (he had lost them in various adventures on various worlds), and Bennish couldn�t reconstruct his timer from memory. The Onkari had thousands of scientists that could fill in the missing pieces, but it could take Bennish and Donavan months or even years before they would be able to recreate sliding technology on their own. So when the Sliders arrived (in �End of the Road�), Bennish was given an opportunity to slide in days instead of months, and he took it. He said he would let the Sliders use the advanced equipment in his lab convinced if they took he and Donavan along when they slid. They agreed. And that�s how Bennish again became a slider.

Dr. Helen Donavan (Valarie Pettiford) is a brilliant 42-year-old physicist. After the Arturo of her world (So-Close World) went sliding, Dr. Donavan replaced him as Regents Professor of Cosmology and Ontology at U-Cal. Helen was not involved in the development of sliding, but, as a professor of advanced quantum physics, she obviously understands the principles behind it. Prior to �End of the Road,� the only connection she had to sliding was working with her prot�g�, Conrad Bennish, who had been involved with the development of sliding several years back. The two of them had been about to begin work on re-creating sliding technology when the events of �End of the Road� took place. This Helen never collaborated with the KroMaggs (unlike her double in �Asylum�), and therefore never had to assume the false identity of �Grace Venable.�

Lieutenant Corporal Kryptus Tenaren (Clancy Brown) is a 47 year-old KroMagg born into the Clan Kryptus on Home World in 1953, more than a decade before the Great Struggle. In 1969, Tenaren�like most KroMaggs between age 15 and 40�was drafted into the war shortly after it began. He fought hard and well, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Corporal after only nine years. In 1981, after the war was lost and the KroMaggs were exiled to the forest world that would later be called KroMagg Prime, Tenaren left the service and began writing a series of books about The Great Struggle. While researching, he came across military documents that revealed that his people may not have been completely in the right. But there was nothing he could do; he wasn't even allowed to publish his books because they were seen as treasonous. Hoping to reform from the inside, Tenaren rejoined the military.

For years he was able to do very little. Even when the Dynasty began using smuggled sliding equipment to conquer new worlds in the late �80s, Tenaren remained stationed on KroMagg Prime in a menial position with no influence. By the time he was up for a promotion and transfer in 1991, the humans from Home World had stripped the Dynasty of its sliding ability and KroMagg society again fell into disarray. In late 1994, when Smarter-Quinn gave sliding technology back to the KroMaggs, they again united under the leadership of a single emperor, Kroatoanus, and turned their aggression outward to parallel worlds ruled by humans. Tenaren was opposed to the Dynasty�s imperialism and decided to try again to make a difference from within. This time, he got his chance. While stationed on Earth 042 in late 1995, he began to work as a double agent, aiding that world�s resistance movement whenever possible.

In 1999, Colin Mallory leapt into Earth 042. Colin and Tenaren became allies. Tenaren helped Colin locate Wade Wells, whom they discovered to be at Outpost 88. Tenaren used his garrison�s quantum translocation device to transport Colin to Outpost 88 to rescue Wade. He then sabotaged the device�which transported supplies to Earth 042�so that the KroMaggs there could no longer receive weapons supplies or troop reinforcements, which gave the humans of that Earth a better chance of overthrowing their KroMagg oppressors. But the sabotage was in vain; they were able to build a new one in days. Besides that, Tenaren was quickly found responsible for the sabotage and sentenced to death. At the last minute, his father, Chancellor Kryptus Karagg (right-hand man to Emperor Kroatoanus) granted him a pardon on the condition that he must live in solitude at the Imperial Estate.

Several months later, Tenaren encountered Colin and Wade again, along with the rest of the Sliders (this is depicted in �Heart of Darkness� and subsequent episodes). Now Kryptus Tenaren slides along with Logan, Helen, and Bennish, using his morphing ability to appear human on worlds where it is necessary (which is most of them).