If there's one thing Sliders' suffers no shortage of, it's great ideas. The execution may be lacking, but the concept is incredible.

There are dozens of episodes worthy of this award, but I can only pick one. And despite the presence of some phenominally successful episodes, I keep drifting back to one that could have been better. My pick for Best Concept is:

World Killer
By Marc Scott Zicree

I nearly salivated when I saw the description for this episode at Sci-Fi. Not only does it feature a disturbing opening world where Quinn's double is the last man on earth, but he's also responsible for it. It's a beautiful "what if" scenario, except instead of looking to the historical past, it looks back to "the Pilot" itself and asks what would have happened had Quinn really jacked up the power. In addition, an opportunity is set-up for both social satire and commentary with the overpopulation world created by Quinn's mistake. Third, it's a perfect character development episode at this point in time because our Quinn is growing increasingly reckless and remorseless. This double could have been a major wake-up call.

It's combination of continuity, innovative application of the technology (slidewave), character and social satire/commentary could have been unmatched. It just wasn't executed to its full potential, the major weakness being the delivery of Overpopulation Earth. But conceptually, this was a beaut and could have been the biggest episode since it debuted in March of '95.

Your picks (and I suspect it will be very varied)?

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