Episode Guide / Lost Galaxy / Protect the Quasar Saber
Protect the Quasar Saber
aka "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Airdate: 11/8/99
The Pink Quasar Saber finds it way to the
planet Gwynit, where it is found by alien with profit on
his mind.
Maya has a dream in which Kendrix' spirit
tells her that the Pink Quasar Saber has fallen into the
wrong hands.
The Rangers travel to Gwynit to find the
Saber. They believe to be interrogating the alien who
found it, but it is actually Deviot in disguise, who
tells them the Saber is on Karasa.
The Saber is actually on Onyx, where it
is being auctioned off. Astronema appears and bids one
million. Being short on cash, she decides to steal it
instead, and no one tries to stop her.
That is, until Trakeena appears and
exposes "Astronema" as Karone, a traitor who
turned to the side of good. Villamax attacks her for the
Saber.
Karone holds her own with the Saber,
enough to allow her to escape the tavern with her life,
and the Saber.
On Karasa, the Rangers find a fake Quasar
Saber, and a bomb with their name on it. They are then
attacked by Deviot and a monster.
From outof nowhere, a Quasar Saber comes
flying through the sky and strikes down the gruesome
twosome.
It's Karone! She's made it Karasa to help
the Rangers and return the Pink Quasar Saber to Leo.
Trakeena won't give up so easily. She
appears on Karasa with Villamax and another monster.
As the Rangers are kept busy by the
others, Karone and Trakeena go one on one atop the
cliffs. Trakeena is too powerful, and ends up throwing
the former Princess of evil off the cliff.
As Karone falls, she is saved by the
spirit of Kendrix. Kendrix makes a Transmorpher appear on
Karone's wrist, and tells her that she will become the
new Pink Ranger.
Karone joins her friends, morphed as the
Pink Ranger.
Scorpion command retreats, leaving behind
a monster.
The Rangers destroy the monster with an
Orion attack. Surprisingly, the monster doesn't grow -
he's dead!
But alas, there is already a full grown
monster on Terra Venture! Time to bring out the heavy
artillery.
Centaurus and Galaxy Megazords destroy
the monster with their signature moves.
Karone is shown her new quarters, and
everyone celebrates with one of Kai's gourmet meals.
Comments:
It's becoming more and more apparent that
Zordon's wave didn't destroy all evil in this
universe - at the Onyx Tavern there were a bunch
of villains from the Rangers' universe. One
possible explanation is that just before the
countdown to destruction (or even way before),
many villains fled to the lost galaxy, out of the
reach of Zordon's wave, and eventually returned
to the "normal" universe after all evil
was wiped out in it. That would explain how
villains from the lost galaxy and the mainstream
universe have knowledge of each other, and how
they still exist in this universe.
It would be nice to have seen exactly how Karone
travelled from planet to planet, and how and why
she separated from the Space Rangers.
