Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Also known as	Saban's Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Genre	Action-adventure; Drama; Science fantasy; Superhero;
Created by	Haim Saban ; Toei Company
Based on	Seijuu Sentai Gingaman; by Toei Company
Developed by	Saban Entertainment; Toei Company
Directed by	Jonathan Tzachor; Worth Keeter; Blair Treu; Koichi Sakamoto; Ryuta Tasaki; Steve Wang; Jim Mathers; Judd Lynn
Starring	Archie Kao; Reggie Rolle; Danny Slavin; Valerie Vernon; Cerina Vincent; Russell Lawrence; Amy Miller; Melody Perkins; Paul Schrier
Composers	Lior Rosner; Jeremy Sweet; Inon Zur; Shuki Levy; Kussa Mahchi
Country of origin	United States; Japan
No. of episodes	45 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Haim Saban; Shuki Levy
Producer	Jonathan Tzachor
Production locations	California (Santa Clarita & Los Angeles) ; Japan (Saitama, Kyoto, Yokohama and Tokyo)
Running time	20 minutes
Production companies	Saban Entertainment; Renaissance Atlantic Entertainment; Toei Company, Ltd.; MMPR Productions, Inc.
Distributor	Saban International
Release
Original network	Fox Kids
Picture format	NTSC
Original release	February 6 –; December 18, 1999
Chronology
Preceded by	Power Rangers in Space
Followed by	Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue

Power Rangers Lost Galaxy is an American television series and the seventh season of the Power Rangers franchise, based on the 22nd Super Sentai series Seijuu Sentai Gingaman.^[1]^{[failed verification]}^[2]^[3]^{[verification needed]} The series was the first to follow the Sentai tradition of a new cast with each new series.

The character Kendrix (Valerie Vernon) was killed off^[4] two-thirds through the season, marking the first time that a Ranger was killed off in the series. Kendrix was written out of the show as Valerie left the show for a while to be cured for leukemia. Her treatment was successful and she returned for the season finale.^[5] This particular season of Power Rangers has been noted to be the most expensive production of the series to date.^[6]

Synopsis[]

Set after the events of Power Rangers in Space, four young adults (Leo and Mike Corbett, Kai Chen, and Kendrix Morgan) are leaving for the space colony Terra Venture seeking a new world like Earth. They later meet a mechanic named Damon Henderson, and on the Moon, a jungle girl named Maya who leads them to five mystical swords known as the Quasar Sabers on her home planet of Mirinoi. After pulling the blades out of a stone, Mike falls into a crevice, but not before passing his sword onto younger brother Leo.

With the Quasar Sabers, they transform into the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy and use them to battle space villains from two different parts of the galaxy. These villains include Scorpius, Trakeena, Deviot and Captain Mutiny. Along the way, they discover Zords known as Galactabeasts and ally with the mysterious Magna Defender, a galactic warrior. Though he later dies, he manages to reveal that his host body is Mike and passes the Magna Defender powers to him.

When Deviot revives the evil Psycho Rangers, the Rangers of Power Rangers in Space show up to aid the Galaxy Rangers in destroying them. During this saga, Kendrix Morgan, the Pink Ranger, sacrifices herself to protect the Pink Space Ranger and Terra Venture from Psycho Pink. Karone, sister of the Red Space Ranger Andros and former evil princess Astronema, is given the powers of the Pink Galaxy Ranger from Kendrix (who appears as a spirit), and joins the Rangers in the battle to protect Terra Venture.

Deviot later reads secret words from the Galaxy Book; sending Terra Venture and himself into the "Lost Galaxy". Here the Rangers encounter Captain Mutiny and his Swabbies. These space traveling pirates live on the back of a massive space faring dragon inside a castle. Deviot reemerges and joins the Captain's fight against the Rangers and attempts to turn all of the citizens of Terra Venture into his slaves for the purposes of mining for "Booty".The colony escapes the galaxy after Mike sacrifices his powers to keep a portal open.

After this, Deviot returns to Trakeena, but, by this time, she has learned of his treachery and tries to destroy him. She chases him through the ship and into the cocoon that Scorpius made, fusing them together and driving Trakeena insane. Using her army armed with bombs, she cripples Terra Venture and destroys the Stratoforce and Centaurus Megazords. This forces the colony's people to evacuate to a nearby planet. Trakeena gives chase but the Rangers destroy her ship by self-destructing the Astro Megaship, but the explosion leaves Leo stranded on the moon. Trakeena, who survives the blast also, albeit scarred and injured, finally reaches her breaking point and uses the cocoon to transform into an insectoid creature to enter Terra Venture's wreck and use her power to set it on a crash course to the planet below to destroy it and the people. Leo enters and soon followed by the other Rangers try to stop her, but are slowly outmatched by Trakeena's new power. She is only defeated after Leo, using his Battlizer, blasts her at point-blank range nearly destroying himself in the process. By this time the colony is nearly crashed but the Galaxy Megazord diverts its course and lands it on a large clearing in an explosion, the colonists, having feared the worse for the Rangers, are relieved and overjoyed when they come out of the explosion on the Galactabeasts. After this, the Zords reveal to the Rangers they had landed on Mirinoi and return the swords to the stone altar. This restores its petrified inhabits and, to the joy of the Rangers, restores Kendrix to life as well. After this the colonists settle on Mirinoi as the series ends.

Cast and characters[]

Galaxy Rangers

Danny Slavin as Leo Corbett, the Red Galaxy Ranger.
Archie Kao as Kai Chen, the Blue Galaxy Ranger.
Reggie Rolle as Damon Henderson, the Green Galaxy Ranger.
Cerina Vincent as Maya, the Yellow Galaxy Ranger.
Valerie Vernon as Kendrix Morgan, the first Pink Galaxy Ranger.
Melody Perkins as Astronema/Karone, the second Pink Galaxy Ranger
Russell Lawrence as Mike Corbett, the second Magna Defender.

Allies

Wendee Lee as the voice of Alpha 6
Donene Kistler as Alpha 6 (Episodes 10-11)
Heide Karp as Alpha 6 (Episodes 14-15)
Michelle Tillman as Alpha 6 (Episodes 29-44)
Julie Maddalena as the voice of D.E.C.A.
Tom Whyte as Commander Stanton
Jack Betts as Councilor Brody
Betty Hawkins as High Councilor Renier
Kerrigan Mahan as the voice of the original Magna Defender
Ryan James as Zika
Paul Schrier as Farkus "Bulk" Bulkmeier
Jack Banning as Professor Phenomenus

Space Rangers

Christopher Khayman Lee as Andros, the Red Space Ranger
Roger Velasco as Carlos Vallerte, the Black Space Ranger
Selwyn Ward as T.J. Johnson, the Blue Space Ranger
Tracy Lynn Cruz as Ashley Hammond, the Yellow Space Ranger
Patricia Ja Lee as Cassie Chan, the Pink Space Ranger

Villains

Amy Miller as Trakeena
Kim Strauss as the voice of Scorpius
Tom Wyner as the voice of Furio
Derek Stephen Prince as the voice of Treacheron
Bob Papenbrook as the voice of Deviot
David Lodge as the voice of Villamax
Richard Cansino as the voice of Kegler
Mike Reynolds as the voice of Captain Mutiny
Richard Epcar as the voice of Barbarax
Rajia Baroudi as the voice of Hexuba

Psycho Rangers

Patrick David as the voice of Psycho Red
Michael Maize as the voice of Psycho Black
Wally Wingert as the voice of Psycho Blue
Kamera Walton as the voice of Psycho Yellow
Vicki Davis as the voice of Psycho Pink

Episodes[]

Home media[]

In 2012, Shout Factory announced that it had reached an exclusive distribution deal with Saban for shows such as Power Rangers and Big Bad Beetleborgs. Power Rangers Lost Galaxy was released on DVD in August 2012, as part of a Time-Life exclusive boxed set containing seasons 1–7. The show later became available independently of the boxed set on March 10, 2015.