Rembrandt, Maggie, Mallory and Diana are fished out of the middle of
the ocean by a merchant captain and
his crew. They find they are outside their sliding radius on a boat
that is taking them farther away from
this important zone with each passing minute. It's pretty obvious that
something has gone terribly wrong
with the timer. A failsafe function in the device normally prevents
this from happening.
Diana determines that the timer needs a re-charge. But that doesn't
solve their immediate problem. The
captain won't turn the ship around and, because this world never developed
lightweight aircraft alloys,
there are no helicopters available to take them back to L.A. and into
the sliding radius.
When the ship is boarded by modern day pirates the Sliders decide that
the only way to get back to the
mainland is to join the buccaneer crew who are heading in that direction.
The problem is, some of the
pirates suspect our heroes of being undercover federal agents. Can
they be trusted to deliver the Sliders
to safe ground? Or will the pirates send them to their deaths at the
end of a long wooden plank?
 
       
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