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What happened between PRIS and PRLG?

posted 12 years ago by Y2K Blackout
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Does anyone have any idea what happened between Power Rangers in Space and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy? (assuming this was explained officially somewhere)

PRIS ends with the Rangers identifying themselves, all evil in the vicinity being eradicated and mankind finally experiencing lasting peace from alien invaders. There's so much hope and potential.

Yet, the beginning of PRLG shows a rundown planet... the atmosphere is bleak and gray. People want to leave the Earth and join the orbital station to explore the galaxy. It's like the Earth has become ruined and humanity has fallen in disarray -- plagued with crime, weathered by the elements, and the only hope is to leave the Earth to start over.

How the hell did that happen? What happened to the Space Rangers? How could this have happened after the Earth finally experienced peace? I found episode 1 so depressing...

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[–] SilentDues 12 years ago

I don't think the producers intended for Earth to look like it was at the brink, only to show humanity was now at a technological point where we could venture off into space to establish a colony elsewhere. That way just in case Earth were threatened again and something were to happen, we'd have people somewhere else in the universe to continue our way of life, at least that's how I look at it (kinda like when the Daleks destroy humanity at the climax of Doctor Who's revived first season). Can ya' blame the people of Earth after how close the end came in "Countdown to Destruction"? The point to the climax of in Space was to show Earth was at last at peace following six long years of an unspoken war with the Evil Alliance, but evil never truly dies, there has to be a balance and the war always wages on which we must have a back-up plan for.

Lost Galaxy appears to be set a good while after in Space, but the entire season still has to be set before at least the two-part "Trakeena's Revenge" in the middle of Lightspeed Rescue, that which is set in 2000 so it's not too long after 1998.

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