Ghosts in the Machine

This article is about a/an episode in Power Rangers in Space, the last installment in the Zordon Era.

Ghosts in the Machine
Power Rangers in Space, Episode 6x39
Air Date(s)	November 13, 1998
Production Information
Written by	Jackie Marchand
Directed by	Worth Keeter
Episode Guide
Previous	Mission to Secret City
Next	The Impenetrable Web

Ghosts in the Machine is the thirty ninth episode of Power Rangers In Space. It continues from the previous episode.

Synopsis

Astronema develops a machine that transforms matter into data cards. She uses the machine on the people she kidnapped from Secret City; initially using Professor Phenomenus, Bulk, and Skull as test subjects. This turns out to be a success, and soon the others, including Silvy, are also turned into data cards.

Aboard the Astro Megaship, the Power Rangers discover Astronema's whereabouts and travel underground to get there via the Megatank. Cassie is turned into a data card, followed by the other four Rangers, and Astronema gives the cards to Ecliptor for safekeeping.

The ghosts of the Psycho Rangers use the machine in reverse, restoring them to their original state. Ecliptor is overpowered by the Psycho Rangers, and the stolen cards are used to restore the Power Rangers.

The Psycho Rangers follow the Rangers outside the control room and they begin to fight. The two teams are evenly matched, as Andros has Alpha contact Zhane and inform him of the situation. Meanwhile, the Spiral Saber and Quadroblaster do no damage to the Psychos; instead it causes them to transform into their monster forms.

Meanwhile, Zhane, having been informed of the situation, travels to the Secret City's main tower, and, after a short fight with Ecliptor, is finally able to get up to the control room, find the data cards in a cabinet, figure out the computer, and try his luck with just three cards to start. He is able to restore the Professor, Bulk, and Skull back to normal; and then the kidnapped citizens of Angel Grove back to normal. Zhane then contacts Alpha 6 and tells him to teleport them back home; in addition, he gives Carlos that Silvy is alright, despite the two never having met each other.

The Rangers lead the Psychos back to the control room, where Zhane is still making some adjustments on the computer, and just as his teammates arrive, he is able to successfully navigate the data laser using a screen that links the computer to the machine (with colored dots for each side; Psychos blue and Rangers red). After finally getting his teammates to get the Psychos to the center of the room, Zhane uses the machine to turn them into data cards. However, just as Zhane secures the cards, the system overloads and the whole place begins to fall apart, so the Rangers teleport out and Zhane drops the cards on the computer's console as the Secret City is wiped out. The Rangers end up teleporting on the beach, with no sign of their missing teammate.

The Power Rangers desperately continue to search for Zhane, when he suddenly appears behind them; he informs them he was trying to get the data cards secured before the place exploded but was unsuccessful; however, his teammates understand and they're grateful he is OK. They escape back home, and the Psycho Rangers' data cards are left in Astronema's possession.

Cast

• Christopher Khayman Lee as Andros (Red Space Ranger)
• Selwyn Ward as T.J. Johnson (Blue Space Ranger)
• Roger Velasco as Carlos Vallerte (Black Space Ranger)
• Tracy Lynn Cruz as Ashley Hammond (Yellow Space Ranger)
• Patricia Ja Lee as Cassie Chan (Pink Space Ranger)
• Justin Nimmo as Zhane (Silver Space Ranger)
• Melody Perkins as Astronema
• Juliet Naulin as Silvy
• Paul Schrier as Bulk
• Jason Narvy as Skull
• Jack Banning as Professor Phenomenus
• Walter Lang as Ecliptor (voice)
• Patrick David as Psycho Red (voice)
• Vicki Davis as Psycho Pink (voice)
• Michael Maize as Psycho Black (voice)
• Kamera Walton as Psycho Yellow (voice)
• Wally Wingert as Psycho Blue (voice)

Notes

• The data cards don't show up again until Lost Galaxy's "To the Tenth Power". It is also unspecified how they traded hands from Astronema's to Deviot's (it's only known Astronema somehow lost possession as she wasn't the one who gave them to Deviot).

See Also

• Ep. 46: Prevent it! Setting Sail to Hell - Super Sentai counterpart in Denji Sentai Megaranger. See comparison page. (cruise ship scene footage)
• Ep. 48: Crush it! Hinelar's Dark Designs - Super Sentai counterpart in Denji Sentai Megaranger. See comparison page. (fight footage and story)