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Powers From the Past is the first episode of Power Rangers Dino Charge and is the first part of the two-part pilot of this Power Rangers season. This episode introduces the layout of the story including Sledge's Crew, Keeper, the Energems, the T-Rex Zord, Tyler Navarro, Shelby Watkins, Chase Randall, Koda, and Kendall Morgan.
Synopsis[]
Millions of years after the mysterious and powerful Energems were entrusted to the now extinct dinosaurs for protection from a ruthless bounty hunter, a pair of courageous teens find themselves in possession of two of these long lost precious artifacts, and come face to face with a monster who will do everything in his power to steal them for himself.
Plot[]
In outer space, an alien named Keeper, piloting a small spaceship, attempts to flee from Sledge, a murderous intergalactic bounty hunter who commands a larger spaceship that hauls asteroids and alien outlaws. Wrench, one of Sledge's crew members and chief mechanic tries to fix the ship's lasers but Sledge does it instead. Poisandra, a crewmate of Sledge and future wife who is aboard his ship, manages to lock-on to Keeper's ship and shoot it down, causing the smaller ship to crash land on Earth. Sledge orders his general Fury to retrieve the Energems from Keeper so that with the ultimate power, he will rule the universe. However, Keeper survived the crash and quickly searches for the Energems, before a T-Rex appears before him and Keeper asks the dinosaur to gather the bravest among him. He sees that a crystal from his ship is unstable and about to explode, but he manages to find the Energems. Sensing the arrival of Fury, Keeper plays dead when Fury arrives at the wreckage of his ship, and before he tries to finish off Keeper's body, he notices the case where the Energems were kept and takes it back to Sledge. After Fury leaves the planet, Keeper opens his eyes.
Back on Sledge's ship, Sledge and Poisandra are walking through a cell block while the bounty hunter looks at bounty posters of outlaws he can turn in for space bullion. However, Poisandra is sick of Sledge hunting down outlaws and collecting asteroids that she finds stupid, as she wants to get married sooner rather than later, annoying Sledge. When Fury returns to Sledge's ship, he gives Sledge the case with the Energems supposedly inside, but when he opens it, it contains the unstable crystal from Keeper's ship, which Sledge claims is a bomb. The bomb explodes and causes massive amounts of damage throughout Sledge's ship, and a explosive force causes Fury to be thrown into a transport pod and a Vivix launches it down to Earth, as Sledge's ship is hurtled into space uncontrollably, but not before Sledge swears revenge against Keeper for this, when all of a sudden, the ship's electro nets releases Sledge's prized asteroids and head towards Earth.
Back on Earth, Keeper stands before a group of ten dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus Rex, Parasaur, Stegosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Pterodactyl, Ankylosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and Titanosaurus) and entrusts the ten legendary Energems, ten different colored mystical gemstones with incredible powers that transcends space and time. to the dinosaurs by bonding them to their spirits and bodies. Pleased that the Energems are safe, Keeper hears Fury nearby, concluding that he survived the explosion. The two engage in a fight, with Fury knocking Keeper to the ground and demanding to know what Keeper did with the Energems, with the guardian refusing to tell him. Before Fury finishes off Keeper, Fury notices Sledge's asteroids falling towards the Earth and attempts to escape but is caught an explosion, as well as Keeper. The asteroids wipe out all the dinosaurs and cause the Energems to become lost to history.
65 million years later, a teenager named Tyler Navarro visits the Amber Beach Dinosaur Museum in Amber Beach, California, where he gains some information about Sampson Caves, where his father did some exploring 10 years ago. He asks an employee, Chase Randall, about the location and he tells Tyler that the caves are about 15 miles north of the city and proceeds to take a selfie with a T-Rex fossil.
At the Museum, Chase tries to flirt with some girls but gets rejected before heading out for an expedition. Shelby Watkins, a waitress at the museum's snack bar, the Dino Bite Cafe, is distracted and spills some food in the museum curator, Kendall Morgan's food. She attempts to get Chase or his co-worker, Koda to let her join them on the expedition, but is unsuccessful. She also tries to convince Ms. Morgan to let her come and makes a claim that she has more dinosaur experience than Chase and Koda, even watching them slack off, but Ms. Morgan refuses and instructs her to get back to work. Wanting a chance to prove herself, Shelby stows away on the truck.
Tyler arrives at Sampson Caves in his jeep, and climbs down there to investigate. During his exploration, he finds a strange looking tooth, and is pursued by a figure cloaked in black, but Tyler manages to elude it by navigating the narrow caves. After evading the cloaked figure, he encounters a T-Rex fossil that has something glowing in it, so he pulls it out and it's revealed to be the long lost Red Energem, which he takes with him.
Meanwhile, at the dig site, Shelby comes out of hiding and plans how she's going to make Chase and Koda let her stay, when all of a sudden, she witnesses the cloaked thief Tyler saw stealing a crate off the truck and attempts to alert the others, but they cannot hear her. Taking matters into her hands, she tries to go after the thief herself, but it attacks her. Suddenly, Tyler swoops in and swipes the crate from the figure's hands. They work together to outsmart the thief, who reveals himself to be a monster, Iceage. Although they hold him off, Iceage blasts the two of them, causing Shelby to drop the crate revealing the Pink Energem and the Red Energem to fly out of Tyler's backpack. Iceage freezes them both as they try to secure the Energems, but the Energems' power, fueled by their direct contact with them, quickly thaws them out. With them, they get visions of a T-Rex and Triceratops before gaining fossilized weapons and they initiate, unwittingly, into their first transformation as Power Rangers. They fight head-on with Iceage, until the T-Rex Zord appears and hurls Iceage far away, only for it to disappear as quickly as it arrived.
Giving Shelby a ride back to the city (as the expedition crew left without her), Tyler shows her his dad's journal, and reveals to her that his father went missing 10 years ago on an expedition, and he has been searching for him since then by using the notes he left, which include the location of Sampson Caves and said that a creature was stalking him. Tyler shows Shelby a sketch of Fury, who Tyler believes may have been responsible for his father's disappearance, and Shelby thanks Tyler for helping her back there, with him saying that his dad always said that "helping is always the right thing to do".
In the distance, Fury is revealed to have survived the asteroids hitting the Earth and senses that some of the Energems have been found.
Cast[]
- Brennan Mejia as Tyler Navarro (Dino Charge Red Ranger)
- James Davies as Chase Randall
- Yoshi Sudarso as Koda
- Michael Taber as Riley Griffin (credit only)
- Camille Hyde as Shelby Watkins (Dino Charge Pink Ranger)
- Claire Blackwelder as Kendall Morgan
- Richard Simpson as Keeper (voice)
- Adam Gardiner as Sledge (voice)
- Paul Harrop as Fury (voice)
- Estevez Gillespie as Wrench (voice)
- Jackie Clarke as Poisandra (voice)
- Rebecca McFadzien as Tour Guide
- Susanna Tang as Customer
- Gerald Urquhart as Iceage (voice)
Errors[]
- Shots of Earth varied between scenes from Pangaea to modern day. This can be seen when the very first shot of Earth from afar during the chase after Keeper happens as they pass the moon. It was Pangaea at first, but after that, the modern Earth is shown in every other shot.
- Prehistoric Earth was shown to already be broken up into the modern day continents rather than all together as Pangaea. This is seen very clearly during the extinction sequence when the camera pulls back to reveal all three Americas.
- While it is an error in which the continents are shown in their current configuration, the continents were indeed at an advanced stage of drift in the early Cenozoic period, 65 million years ago, as the current Greenland separated from the remainder of Laurasia and the Atlantic Ocean expanded. As seen in this map, other notable differences shown on TV include: the Hudson Bay having been opened and the Peninsula of Florida formed.
- The dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures featured in the opening could not have been in the same place at the same time. The Velociraptor has only been found in Asia, the Titanosaurus in South America and India and France and Madagascar, the Stegosaurus was from the late Jurassic, the Plesiosaurus was from the mid-Jurassic, and the Parasaurolophus and Pteranodon became extinct just before the end of the Cretaceous. It would have been more appropriate to feature Edmontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Leptoceratops, Torosaurus, Ornithomimus, Didelphodon, and Champsosaurus. Only four of those featured--T-Rex, Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, and Ankylosaurus--did indeed inhabit North America at the end of the Cretaceous period.
- After the bomb that Fury accidentally delivers goes off, the damage was done to the very bottom of the ship, even though the explosion happened in the very front of the ship. This is seen when Sledge looks down through the damaged hole, which was located at the bottom.
- When Tyler took a selfie, he held the phone in portrait but got a landscape shot.
- When Shelby said "Hey! He's getting away!", the subtitles incorrectly referred to her as Sledge. The same mistake occurred to Iceage while cloaked when he said "No!"
- The fossil seen by Tyler in his introduction is a Cryolophosaurus, which lived in Antarctica, and therefore would not have been found in North America like Chase says it was.
- In two different shots, Shelby's fossilized Morpher was seen open, but when she was putting her Energem in, it was closed.
Notes[]
- Michael Taber (Riley) is credited but does not appear in this episode.
- This also marks the third time where a Ranger does not appear in the first episode, this first was Damon Henderson in the episode "Quasar Quest Part 1" in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy and the second was Wes Collins in "Force from the Future Part 1" in Power Rangers Time Force.
- In the original broadcast, the opening credits accidentally list Yoshi Sudarso by his birth name (Yoshua Sudarso) as opposed to his stage name. This is corrected from the next episode onwards, as well as on reruns and DVD releases.
- Tyler and Shelby are the only two Dino Charge Rangers to appear morphed in this episode.
- This episode contains no Sentai footage, marking the first time this has happened during the Saban Brands era and the first since Thunder Storm Part 1.
- Monkeywi appears in one of Sledge's wanted posters.
- In the scene where Chase tries to impress two girls, the one who said "buzz off" is portrayed by James Davies' real-life girlfriend.
- Iceage recognizes the concept of Power Rangers, continuing the idea that it is a universal fighting force.
- The line "You know what's in the crate?" recalls the photo game "Do you know what's in the box?", played by Power Rangers fans over social media, particularly Facebook Rangers, which Yoshi Sudarso, who plays Koda, is an active member of.
- This is the first episode in Power Rangers to not feature a Yellow Ranger.
- Not all of the outlaws are seen in Sledge's cells.
- Universally speaking, one of the asteroids that Sledge accidentally releases onto Earth could have contained the Dino Gems. This is because the Dino Gems came to Earth in the same asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
- However, in Super Ninja Steel's Echoes of Evil confirms that the events of Dino Charge take place in a separate universe.
See Also[]
- Brave 1: He's Here! The Bright Red King - Super Sentai counterpart in Kyoryuger. See comparison page. (story)
- Brave 14: Oh No! Spirit Base - Super Sentai counterpart in Kyoryuger. See comparison page. (Professor Strickler's debut)
- Brave 21: Zoom! Plezuon's Back - Super Sentai counterpart in Kyoryuger. See comparison page. (Kendall Morgan's debut)
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