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Phoenix Introduces: Zach, Aliza, Little Zach, Jessica (Jessie), Waldo, Zozo, GV, Captain Kidd, the Queen
The Queen has put a price on the heads of the new race, humans. Captain Kidd sets a trap, snares Phoenix (Ranger I Mark I) with the Foxx family and the ambassadors aboard. Jessie and Little Zach get away. Zach and Aliza end up captured, Aliza gets turned over to the Crown, the ambassadors bust Zach out, and he gets shot in the process. Kidd then helps them get away, as the Queen has double crossed him on payment. Zach gets back to Earth, gets a bionic arm and leg, and the S5 implant. Walsh creates the Series 5 team to help Zach recover his wife. Introduces: Walsh, Doc, Niko, Goose, the Gherkin race, and the outlaw planet Tortuna
The Rangers go to Tortuna, looking for Captain Kidd, to find out what happened to Aliza. They are captured by the Queen, and they escape with Aliza's comatose body, but the other half of her psychocrystal is still in the hands of the Queen. Introduces: Geezi the Pedulont, Bubblehead the memory bird
Geezi is a snitch, and he has one of the Queen's memory birds (so she doesn't use disks for data storage and retrieval, okay?). The Rangers go back to Tortuna (this time undercover as Zanguils) to buy the bird from Geezi, and they learn about how the Queen has decimated the Gherkin race along the way. Doc almost gets turned into a slaver lord, but you gotta watch it to see how everyone gets away. Introduces: MaCross, Annie O, Patch and the Black Hole Gang, the Deltoid prison colony
Goose has to transport MaCross to Earth for trial. Lucky, lucky guy. The Black Hole Gang has other ideas, as MaCross apparently hid a stash of Starstones before he was captured, and they want the stones and MaCross back. They attack Goose's interceptor while in hyperspace, and they come out WAY off course, and crash on the frontier planet Ozark. Annie O finds them, and so do the gang. Goose promises to come back someday, Annie gives him a peck on the cheek, MaCross goes to prison.
Someone has stolen the Supertrooper Juice formula, and it's up to the Rangers to find out who the mysterious "Overboss" is, before the board of Leaders puts them out of commission. Introduces: Mistwalker, Audra Miles
Zach and Zozo are investigating a call for help from a Beta anthropologist studying a aboriginal species on a world where nature is in complete control, and doesn't much like technology. Zach can't deal with the tribe's Shaman, Mistwalker, and is peeved because none of his devices work (bugs in 'em, literally), while the Black Hole Gang are looking for starstones, and aren't going to let any natives get in their way. This one has a great ending. Introduces: Cody "Wildfire" Carson
On a battlecruiser, the Rangers get a distress call from one Wildfire Carson, who remembers Zach from when he was just a kid. He's being chased by a Bad Guy who wants him dead for some crime or another, and asks for sanctuary, which Zach is forced to give. Cody tries to steal Alma in one of the shows most memorable moments, where she zaps him and calmly replies "You, sir, are a boob.".
An artificial planetoid is heading straight for Earth on a collision course, so the Rangers and the ambassadors got try to stop it. A highly sophisticated computer is running the show, and its a horror picture. Using holography, Spick (the computer) is trying to drive them off with one ghost story after another. Everybody splits into teams (horror movie mentality) to see who can get to the control room first. It seems Spick was programmed by some long dead alien race, and can't get out of him programming. He doesn't want to hit earth, but has no choice. Doc reprogrammes him to self destruct before he can do any damage, and they sadly say good-bye. This episode highly resembles Scooby Doo in a warped way.... Introduces: Brappo, Peters, Jackie Subtract, Crumb (his roach), Miller and Sanderson
The Rangers are in charge of security at an intergalactic art show where a Poe mutant Sensation doll is stolen. The doll is dangerous to humans, indeed to everyone but a Poe, as it holds the emotions of the artist. One million emotions to be exact, and will drive you mad if you touch it. Jackie Subtract steals it for Brappo (who owns New Jersey!). After fighting their way through Brappo's garden of death, Goose and Niko confront him, demanding he return the doll. He shouts no, and goes to grab it off the table. He lets it go with a scream, and Niko goes to catch it. Shane pushes her out of the way, catches it himself, and his bio defences save him from goin' nuts. Introduces: Ryker Killbane
The Queen hires Killbane to destroy the Kiwi defence shield because she has learnt the remaining members of the Gherkin race are hiding there. Introduces: Longshot research facility, the dolphins Icarus and Winter, Dr. Kruger
Killbane breaks into Longshot disguised as Goose, and steals one of the component's of Mindnet, a device that induces psi abilities, for the Queen. In order to clear Shane's name the Rangers have to find it quick. The Queen plants false images in Niko's head using the Mindnet, and so they are led into a trap. Goose challenges Killbane, and wins, but the Queen doesn't intend to keep her word. Niko throws a shield around the Rangers when the Queen uses the mindnet with both its parts, and all unshielded thoughts are laid bare to each other, commencing in a free for all during which Killbane and the queen get away, but the damaged mindnet is removed. Introduces: Lazarus Slade
Q-ball's lab is studying a slew of alien devices, and Buzzwang and little Zach are supposed to be inventorying them. A wicked alien Xerox machine from hell grabs Buzz and makes a whole pack of Baby Buzzwangs, who steal Ranger 2, and head for a planet in the empty zone. Buzz and Zach follow (against the rules) in Ranger 1, and you just gotta watch this one. It defies description.
A VERY violent new race is blowing up everything in its path (including the Crown destroyers. Yay!) and Captain Kidd is the only one who knows anything about them. All he has to do is give a little whistle.... Introduces: Mogul and Larry
This one introduces Mogul and Larry. What else can I say?
The Rangers receive a distress call from a planet with more water than land, so they, and the dolphins, Icarus and Winter, are sent to investigate. Two nutso aliens had restarted an abandoned factory that was polluting the one major land mass, and making the planets aquatic natives sick. Introduces: The planet Wallkab and its people
The Queen has built a canon that can destroy a planet, and is trying to hold the League hostage with it. So the Rangers are sent in to work with the resistance group on the planet, and destroy the weapon. Introduces: Roy McIntyre and Burro
Roy and Burro are prospecting and find a treasure trove of alien artifacts. He calls in his old friend and fellow archaeologist Niko, and Doc tags along. But they "tomb" is guarded by a giant robot guardian with an ax, and it doesn't like them being there.
Roy and Burro are back, this time on Shaky, a planet with LOTS of seismic activity, but possibly a BIG starstone deposit, and the Black Hole Gang wants the claim.
Picture Moby Dick in Space, with the 2086 version of Greenpeace. Need I say more? Introduces: The Scarecrow, the planet Grana.
Goose, Niko, and Zozo are on Grana, taking soil samples to see how well Kiwi veggies will grow. At the harvest dance, Goose dances with a young lady whose boyfriend Johnny is mildly annoyed, and goes off more annoyed. He runs afoul of a very old, very powerful, and very malevolent being who had been sleeping beneath the surface of Grana when the Rangers machine woke him. He wants off planet, badly. He steals Triton, and shoots Niko. He then assaults Niko, trying to get Ranger I's password so he can use it to get off planet (He is mostly likely hot to get to Tarkon, but this isn't revealed until a later episode.). Goose confronts his, calls him "scarecrow" after the being in Johnny's ghost story, and he adopts the name. In the end, the Scarecrow gets away, and Niko and Goose wonder what manner of creature it is. Introduces: Nimrod the Cat
Nimrod grabs the Rangers out of hyperspace, and makes them play his version of the most dangerous game, without their badges. They have to make do as normal, human Rangers. And they do just fine. Introduces: Princess Maya of Tarkon, the General
Lazarus Slade is supplying the General with warriors for his games by kidnapping. He grabbed Doc off an automated space station, and Goose is sent undercover to find out what's going on. Maya has survived the games thus far, and switches sides to help Goose and Doc put Slade and the General out of commission. The General becomes fascinated with Gooseman, believing him to be a metamorph, and the perfect candidate for his clone army. Introduces: "Wild Bill" Krebb, Ernie, Gelatinous, Nordis (?), Tyko, Unamed Andorian, Bengee (?), Zeeza (?), Leon and Neon (the two headed guy), Kiwi kids
The Kiwis and Andorians, on their way back from a Federation Conference, discover The Orian Flying Circus and Rodeo Show, and have no idea they are meant to be part of the act. You don't want to see what happens when an Andorian is caged... Zachary is having nightmares about his wife, Aliza. He goes to the cryocrypt, and holds a tech hostage, demanding he release and revive Aliza from stasis, as the Queen has been using her psychocrystal, and it will eventually kill Aliza. Cmdr. Walsh talks Zach out of it, but he is confined to quarters. That doesn't stop the other 3 Rangers from busting him out so he can try to get his wife's crystal from the Queen.
Note: This is an exceptionally well written and directed episode. Introduces: Daisy O'Mega The Rangers pretend to go bad in order to infiltrate the Black Hole Gang, who are going to try to attack the Longshot research facility. Goose is charged with keeping Daisy O'Mega, then leader of the group of outlaws, distracted after she makes it plain she is attracted to him. They are planning a trap at Longshot, but McCross, who wanted Daisy for himself, and hates Goose anyway, finds out the plot and mucks up that plan.
Note: This is the second episode where Niko gets shot for Shane, though this time she was saving his and Daisy's lives. There are also some great looks traded in this one. One of my top ten, despite the unremarkable plot.
The Rangers are leading a strike team against the Black Hole Gang at Entropy's Edge, a black hole or wormhole of some sort. During the battle (which is strikingly reminiscent of the trench battle from Star Wars) Goose, after knocking out the power source of the Black Hole hideout, is dragged into the black hole. His charge goes nuts, and when we is finally spit out at the other end of the wormhole into the Empty Zone. He crashes on Ozark, wake and unable to control his morphing. Drawn by Annie O's cries for help as she is attacked by a mean version of Barney, Goose morphs into a Wolverine-like Frankenstein monster. Annie tries to shield him from the people of Ozark, who have no tolerance for off-worlders, until the other Rangers track him down.
Lazarus Slade has outfitted the Queen's armada with hyper drives, and they are advancing on Earth. But according to Geezi, the starstones powering the drives were *manufactured* by Captain Kid. Goose and Niko track down Kidd at the old homestead (Enter Mrs. Kidd, a giant Chicken, and Luigi, a shorter, fatter version of Squeegie), while Zach and the BETA fleet try to find a weakness in the Crown Armada.
Sanderson and Miller, who has apparently got over touching the Poe Mutant sensation doll (ah, continuity), sneak into Longshot, after the Supertrooper Juice. This episode has the ENTIRE rogue's gallery chasing after Bubblehead the memory bird, who has accidentally been downloaded with the Supertrooper Juice formula. The Queen wants it, Jackie Subtract wants it, Daisy O'Mega wants it, Brappo wants it, the Black Hole Gang wants it, and especially, the Rangers want it back.
BETA gets a message from the rebels on Wollcam. It seems the Queen is back, and is looking for something this time. A legendary Stargate, a wormhole leading to a parallel universe. The only person who seems to know anything about it is a Captain Weege, who is sole crew of a submarine. Weege wants nothing to do with the Rangers, though he does take an interest in Niko. It's an uneasy partnership, as Captain Foxx and Captain Weege can't seem to decide at first who is in charge. Introducing: Premiere Dutch (sorta)
Lazarus Slade has once again teamed up with the Queen of the Crown, and once again they plan an assault on Earth. This time, however, the Queen gives him 500 Plagos for pilots. Plagos lack the good sense God gave sheep. But they might have been successful if they hadn't come up against BETA's brilliant defensive minds. Yes thanks to an android double of Premiere Dutch dispensing knockout gas, Buzz, his food dispensing android buddies (they cost BETA $7 million, and there are a LOT of them), the Ambassadors and the Kiwi kids are minding the store, and it's up to them to save the world. Introduces: The Heart of Tarkon, King Spartos
Doc and Niko are sent to Maya's home world Tarkon, to try to win King Spartos, her father, over to the idea of technology, but all their efforts are sabotaged by a Crown spy. In the midst of all this, the mystery of the Heart, a giant computer hidden away in a mountain, is introduced. While Niko investigates the computer with the help of an ancient Shaman, Doc gets to play dress up and even use those fencing lessons he took at Miss Abercrombie's charm school.
Niko and Doc are on board the luxury liner The Christie trying to track down an assassin hired by the Crown without the use of their implants, because their charges are depleted through foul play. For some reason Premiere Dutch has dyed his hair from grey to black since Buzzwang's Folly. Must have been to keep up with that under-aged looking bride of his...
Mogul summons a powerful entity from a neumonic universe in order to provide him a power source that would make him the most powerful sorcerer in the galaxy. However, he loses control of the entity, and Ariel crash-lands on a planet in the frontier. She loses her crown of power and begins to lose molecular cohesion. If she doesn't return home soon, the resulting explosion could destroy two universes. Goose, Niko, and Waldo try to avert disaster. Naturally, Mogul and Larry follow to stake their claim on a neumonic power source. Niko and Goose travel to Tarkon after being summoned by Maya when entire villages of frozen, lifeless people are discovered. The Scarecrow is behind it, and Niko is just thrilled, as I'm sure you can tell.
Note: I love this one. Don't ask me why. Probably because of the looks Maya and Niko trade as each tries to establish their claim on Goose, who makes his choice quite clear at the end.
Wild Bill Krebb and his gang are at it again, this time on Kirwin, where they trick a guide into showing them the home of the legendary Mothmoose. Yes, it is in fact a flying moose. According to legend, the harvest depends on the appearance of this creature, and the Kiwi want it back. Badly. So, when BETA deems the recovery of the Mothmoose too far down on their emergency list to merit help from the S5's, it's up to Zozo, Waldo, and the kiwi kids to get it back. Fun, silly stuff.
Niko, Doc and Buzz take Zozo, Zach Jr., Jessie and the kiwi kids on a field trip to Mistwalker's home world Daibar, and find out the supposedly perfect natural balance has been tipped. Introduces: Ariel, the planet Xanadu
Niko's mentor Ariel needs her help, back in Xanadu where Niko, an orphan was raised. The Megamind is loose, and takes Zachary. When Niko and Ariel arrive, The Megamind puts them in a surreal landscape made up of Sphinxes and rabbit holes, and they must find their way to the centre of the maze, and the Megamind.
Likins, a highly intelligent wolf-like species, are being blamed for the deaths of Bovo 6 cattle on Prairie. Audra Miles, who has been living with the likins, calls on Niko to help her prove the Bovo corporation is at fault, and she and Doc are sent to investigate.
While introducing kiwi marshmallow trees to the planet Grana, the planet's two suns have an adverse effect on the trees, making them complete their entire cycle of growth in one night, not to mention being 100 times their normal size. The planet will be over run by the trees if a special breed of locusts aren't used to destroy the crop. Unfortunately, the residents of Grana don't think the locusts are a good idea at all. It turns into a free for all, as everyone commandeers everyone else's vehicles trying to stop the Rangers from releasing the locusts.
The Queen is having a sharp-shooting contest, with Aliza Foxx's crystal as the prize. It's a trap, but what the hell, they know that, and Zach will do anything to get his wife back. Goose enters, the rest of the Rangers go undercover.
MaCross wants to steal fuel on Prairie, and decides the best way to go about this is to re-enact a Godzilla movie, using the giant sleeping Bronto Bear, and substituting Texercota for Tokyo. The bear, decidedly unhappy about having his (her? I have no idea) winter hibernation disturbed, is on a direct course to the city, and it's up to the rangers to give the big lug a sedative and get him back to the Arctic where he belongs while the law enforcement in Texercota handle crowd control. Apparently Niko and big teddy bears get along. Must be why she likes Goose so much.
Zach can't make it to "The Albert Einstein School for Gifted Youngsters Science Fair," and his daughter Jessie is PO'd when big brother Zach jr. comes in his stead, sure that Dad will be there was soon as he can. However, the fair is suddenly overrun by tiny cowboys and indians armed with mini-blasters, and it's up to the kids to save the day from this toy "invasion".
The Queen launches a special psychocrystal through hyperspace. It gets onboard a new ship of the navy the Rangers are taking on a tour of the solar system on it's maiden voyage. The crystal takes over Zach's arm, and uses his life-force to power itself as it constructs a body out of servo droids. The Rangers have to stop it before it kills Zach.
The Rangers stop on Mesa to repair space tug 4, which pulling a ship outfitted with an experimental Andorian engine that would render current drives obsolete. A space time distortion opens up, and through it comes a mysterious object, which hits the experimental vessel, and both crash on Mesa. The UFO turns out to be Scarecrow. He takes over a riverboat casino gambler, and teams up with Lazarus Slade. Slade is only interested in getting the new drive, while Scarecrow is after Immortality.
Lazarus Slade wants to create a badge that will duplicate all of the Rangers unique gifts.
Roy McIntyre and Burro find a large deposit of starstones on the dead planet C-44. Almost overnight, the planet becomes a haven for new prospectors. However, the Queen of the Crown wants the starstones for her empire, so she hires the Black Hole Gang (supplied with weapons from Captain Kidd) to drive the settlers away. Zach, Niko, Doc, and Zozo are sent to establish law and order on the planet. Introduces: Wolf Den, the supertroopers Jackhammer, Darkstar, Brainchild, Stingray, Chimaera, Gravestone
The rogue supertroopers kidnap Senator Weiner and force him to steal Batch 22, a virus that can destroy all organic life on any planet. They want Gooseman, Dr. Nougata and Commander Walsh to meet them at Wolf Den, their old Supertrooper training ground. Long flashback to when Captain Walsh ran the programme, how Weiner messed it up and how Gooseman became the man he is today. Introduces: Sheriff Bob Ladd, Amy Ladd, Pinkwing, the planet Frontier
A blond, stubbled Man in Black appears in Frontier looking for Jacob Laremie, who has hired Stingray as muscle to push ranchers and farmers off their land to use as grazing land for his Bovo 9 cattle. Goose (the Man with No Name, obviously) confronts Ray and Darkstar.
Zach, Goose and Zozo crash on a desert planet in the empty zone (you think Goose will ever learn how to fly something without crashing it?) after a bomb is placed in their hypershunt by crown agents on Tortuna. They discover a colony of humans descended from American astronauts, who have been raised by a rogue crown agent. Goose goes undercover, using his bio-defences to change his form to an insect- like humanoid, on the Deltoid rock, which has been taken over by the inmates and is going to explode dangerously close to a planet. The General believes Goose to be a metamorph, and is fascinated with him. MaCross, on the other hand, wants Goose dead per usual.
Note: Goose uses his bio-defences to send Niko a psychic message. We didn't know he and she could communicate this way.
Doc and Niko are drawn to a planet in the empty zone by a mysterious psychic force. The natives of the world believe Voyager to be a god called Hopi who will help them survive the radical weather changes. It turns out the Queen has a weather control device station on the planet.
The planet Ozark is joining the League, and a land rush is organised for the territory for settlement. Daisy and the Black Hole gang are trying to rig the race. Also in the race are Annie O, Roy and Burro, and Cody "Wildfire" Carson, who have teamed up to try for the three best claims according to the survey map Roy managed to get a hold of. Introduces: Aidan Subtract
Jackie Subtract is on the lamb from the Rangers. He decides to impersonate his twin brother, Aidan, who is on Frontier, with a weather controlling device trying to break their drought, with the help of Amy Ladd and Pinkwing. Nimrod's back, this time as a Rock singer in a group called the Slaver Lords. But the queen catches him, and gives him real Slavers for backup singers. She wants to snare all the humans attending the Battle of the Bands, an interstellar rock contest. Larry steals some of Mogul's henchman to form a band, and the Rangers go, moused, blow dried, and teased within an inch of their lives (They sing the Rangers theme). It's a real kick.
Note: Queenie got a hold of the Mindnet again, or had a copy made. This is *never* explained.
Q-ball's new android, Rusty, is quite a sight. Larry wants her, but due to a malfunction, she has eyes only for Doc.
Dr. Albert Obgrabco is experimenting with particle collisions on Texton moon, trying to prove his theory on parallel universes. Sam, the super accelerator computer tries to take over as Obgrabco is clearly nuts, and Obgrabco takes control of the project, introducing a virus to control Sam, who manages to get an SOS off to Beta first. The Rangers get sent, and Obgrabco tries to get rid of them by stranding them in the accelerator chamber. Goose gets trapped inside Sam, and a whole is punched through to another universe, and Sam is merged with an extra-dimensional being. You have to see this one to believe it. Nuff said. Daisy and Maya of Tarkon (members of the Harem, kids) team up to buy weapons on Mesa to outfit the Tarkonian rebels, and discover someone is arming the natives, and it will turn into an all-out range war if the Rangers can't stop them.
Don Quixote Cody Introduces: FitzMaurice, the outlaw planet Blackwater. Wildfire has "Doc Quixote Syndrome" and thinks he's Wyatt Earpp, FitzMaurice and his gang are the Clanton brothers, Doc's Doc Holiday, and Niko is a dancehall girl named Louise. Meanwhile, FitzMaurice wants Cody's bluefire generator, a shield that can disable any ship that tries to lock on tractors.
Note: Name of Cody's ship is the Buchanan and the AI is Roberta (RB).
Senator Weiner's flaky daughter wants to make a rock video on Tortuna, the most dangerous planet in the system as far as humans are concerned. Obviously she takes after good ole Dad in the intelligence department.
Someone doesn't want the monorail to go through, and will do anything to stop it's completion.
The Rangers get to play cowboy on Nebraska (that's right, the planet), helping the crew of The Yellow Rose transport Bovo cattle to Ft. Windom after the Rose is attacked by the Black Hole Gang. These are mean cows. These are very mean cows. Not to mention, the Black Hole Gang don't give up very easily.
The General kidnaps the ambassadors, Doc and Zach, to lure Goose to his Tower. He wants to clone the ranger for his army. Niko volunteers to go with, and the two must fight their way through the five levels of the Tower to free their friends. Introduces: Max Sawyer, Billy Sawyer Max was apparently involved in the early stages of the Supertrooper programme, and raised Gooseman. Then he disappeared, and everyone assumes that he sold out. The Rangers find Max, but he is being attacked. His wife is dead, he is dying, and his last wish is that Shane look after his young son. Goose had seen Max in years (possibly 19 years) and had no idea he had ever had children. Max had been working on a bioengineered horse with wings named, Sundancer, for Brappo, but he wants to horse to go to his son instead. The kid doesn't want to go to school on Earth, but wants to find the horse on Tortuna. Goose lets him go, against Zach's orders.
Note: There is a date reference in this one, saying the year is no longer 2086, but possibly 2087 or 2088. This means the Rangers have been at this for at least a year.
The kid finds, with Geezie's help, Sundancer, and this turns into The Black Stallion. Nuff said.
Doc is on Tarkon, and so is the Scarecrow. Neat sky ships in this one. Will King Spartos finally accept technology? Even with his daughter Maya and Doc trying to convince him, tradition is hard to break. But the Queen's invasion fleet is closing in on the planet, and the only way it can be saved is if the Heart is awakened, and the fortresses on Tarkon's moons are made operational. |
