 This article is about an episode in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.
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The Rescue Mission is the eighteenth episode of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.
Synopsis[]
A distress signal reaches Terra Venture and Commander Stanton sends a search mission to check it out. Inside an old tanker ship, the squad finds a perished crew and an ancient Galaxy Book. The group must fight a stealth-like creature before escaping the ship, but they take the cryptic book with them.
Plot[]
Terra Venture receives a distress call from an alien spacecraft. They find its location, and Commander Stanton sends a rescue team to investigate. Mike is sent to lead the team, and he brings Leo along. They take a Heliship to the spacecraft, but find no indication that it's being attacked. They board the ship, and find that its crew has long been dead - the distress call was being broadcast on a loop. Leo rummages through some remains, and finds an ancient book among one of the cadavers, and takes it with him.
While monitoring activity on the ship, Kai finds a life form rapidly approaching the team. Stanton orders them to abort, but communications are down. After abducting one of the crew, a spider-monster ambushes the team, and captures the rest.
After battling Mike and Leo, it retreats. Mike and Leo come across the monster's lair, and find the team wrapped in webbing. They set them free, and Leo retrieves the book, which had been lost in the battle.
Kai and the other Rangers appear on the ship, and he and his fellow Rangers evacuate the crew members that had just been freed. Kai leaves to search for Mike and Leo.
Mike and Leo lure the monster away, and hold it off with their blasters to give their teammates time to escape. Their fire triggers a chain reaction that threatens to blow up the ship. As they run, they reach a door, and blast it open.
The Heliship appears to take them away. Leo is the first to jump into the ship. Meanwhile, the monster quickly catches up to them. As Mike jumps, the monster grabs hold of him, and a tug of war for Mike's life begins between Leo and the monster. Kai flies by on his Jet Jammer and attacks the monster, releasing his hold on Mike, allowing Leo to pull him to safety.
The Heliship makes it out just in time, and the ship explodes behind them, taking the spider-monster with it. Mike and Leo look over the book they found, and ponder about what kind of secrets it may hold.
Cast[]
- Danny Slavin as Leo Corbett (Red Galaxy Ranger) (unmorphed only)
- Reggie Rolle as Damon Henderson (Green Galaxy Ranger) (voice)
- Archie Kao as Kai Chen (Blue Galaxy Ranger)
- Cerina Vincent as Maya (Yellow Galaxy Ranger) (voice)
- Valerie Vernon as Kendrix Morgan (Pink Galaxy Ranger)
- Russell Lawrence as Mike Corbett (Magna Defender 2) (unmorphed only)
- Tom Whyte as Commander Stanton
- Jack Betts as Councilor Brody
- Jeff Hightower as Hargan
- Elisa Llamido as Collins
- Edwin Neal (credited as "Ed Neil") as Jasper
- Betty Hankins as High Councilor Renier
- Kirk Thornton as Alien (voice)
Errors[]
- Leo and Mike shoot a hole in the alien ship and they are not carried out into outer space.
- Also, they both and their team, fleeing from a monster from the alien ship, jump onto a Ranger Heliship. They should have died from exposure to the vacuum of space and lack of oxygen.
- This is, however, consistent with how space has always been portrayed in Power Rangers, with a breathable, Earth-like atmosphere.
Notes[]
- None of the regular villains appear in this episode.
- This episode contains no Sentai footage.
- As such, fans have often held it in high regard, and director Steve Wang has jokingly dubbed the episode his "Alien Knockoff".[1]
- This is the first episode the Rangers do not use the Lights of Orion since obtaining them in "Orion Returns".
- Leo and Mike do not appear morphed in this episode, while Damon and Maya do not appear unmorphed.
- Тhis is the only Lost Galaxy episode when the Rangers encounter a monster whose origin is unknown.
- It is also their only enemy who did not possess human speech.
- The armor worn by the crew would later be repainted and added to the A-Squad Rangers in S.P.D..
- The episode marks the introduction of the Galaxy Book.
- This episode's opening credits include a third cast shot for Leo that does not return until "Facing The Past".
- The alien ship exploding with the Heli Ship flying away from it is one of the shots from the second credits sequence.
- It is revealed that Terra Venture is seeking a new world in the Yarolian Galaxy.
- When the monster, trying to return the book, clings to Mike's leg, he asks Leo to let him go, to which he does not give up and answers "Not this time." This is a reference to the events in "Quasar Quest Part 2" where Leo could not save his brother but instead gets the Red Quasar Saber from him.
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