The gap between Zeo and TAPRM - your headcanon?

[White Genesis]

I'll go with the Turbo powers being the reason Billy was vanishing when the Gold Ranger first appeared but in my headcanon, they weren't meant to replace Zeo at first. They were meant to be a set of powers for a team Billy was going to form himself when Tommy and co retired because the Zeo Powers couldn't be easily transferred. When Jason came close to dying from the Gold zeo powers, Billy rushed to complete them and left them to be used later after leaving Earth.

After Zeo, Jason left because he no longer felt needed and Zedd and Rita made a comback in a smaller, yet more leathal version of Serpenterra. The fight pushes the Zeo powers to the limits and severely drains the rangers to the point that morphing must be kept at a minimum. Zedd and Rita decide to semi-retire, give birth to Thrax. age him to adulthood to get out of raising him, and ship him off with his grandpa and Uncle Rito. He acts as Master Vile's warlord for a time but is banished before the Z Wave strikes and travels the universe until he comes across Sentinel knight. Also, the Machine Empire is humbled rejoins the United Alliance of Evil after Dark Specter rebuilds them.

[NewWhiteTiger]

From what I remember, they needed the turbo keys to pass through the triangle, and when Zordon realized he could harness those energies to make even stronger powers he did, after all why wait for your weapons to be destroyed to make better ones when you can just make better ones.

As for Bulk and Skull, I too feel they got conned, and when they returned Lt. Stone decided to save his money up instead of run his own Detective agency, and buy into the Juice Bar instead, helping the boys get the security job for old times sake, but realizing the PI thing wouldn't work out for them.

I think Jason left town to finally live a normal life, and came back for the charity event. Maybe he went to college, maybe he just moved, but he's experiencing normal teenage life.

As for the Zedd thing, I used to think they just settled down, but that didn't make much sense. Either way there's and undeniable time gap between the last Zeo episode and the Turbo movie, so either they fought hard against the machines or rangers and called it quits, or Thrax happened and they thought fighting the rangers was too risky with a kid on the way. Or hell maybe they were still fighting the rangers but didn't back off until Divatox showed on Earth, the Turbo series just did a bad job showing that.

[Dark storm]

If you have the time for it, Hellion01 posted a fanfic a while back that I really enjoyed, and seemed to fit that hole pretty well.
http://www.RangerBoard.com/showthread.php?t=143778

[Shadowforce_71]

My head canon is this:

The Zeo Rangers fought the Machine Empire's remnants over the remainder of their senior year of high school (which explains why it was summer during the end of Zeo but they graduated at the beginning of turbo).

I like the idea the Zeo powers constantly got stronger as was directly mentioned on the show albeit off handed like. I imagine the powers got to a point like the Gold Ranger powers that a regular human can't use them for long intervals without physical damage.

About the Cold War thing, I always felt based on in series comments that Earth was considered the "backwater" of the Zordon/UAE war. The Southeast Asia/Vietnam/Middle East equivalent. So once they got the Millenium message, you have to wonder why they shipped off Veterans for a rookie ranger team? Why leave that rookie team with the new mentors?

My head canon is with the Zeo powers intact, Zordon was essentially playing the "long game". The Turbo Rangers were to be the "face" team that protects Earth while the Space Rangers protect KO-35, the Alien's Aquitar, and Trey Triforia.

Whether we accept Jason, Zack, Trini, Billy, Kim, Tommy, Aisha, Rocky, Adam, and Tanya had active powers or not, you can't tell me they weren't fighting somewhere off screen during C2D.

So my head canon is Zordon had the Zeo rangers as a reserve or insurgency team. Why else would you replace your vets at the beginning of a war?

[Digificwriter]

The only things that need explaining vis a vid Zeo/Turbo are why Jason and Kimberly were together, when Bulk and Skull came back and why, and why Zedd and Rita weren't fighting the Rangers.

Everything else is covered in the movie and season.

[Void]

My headcanon? Okay.

After the events of Zeo, Rita and Zedd returned as they said they would. They managed to recharge and improve Serpentera back when they were at Master Vile's and were now ready to use it. The Rangers find out about this and intercept Serpentera on it's way to Earth and fight it with ALL of their Zords.

A massive battle in outer space occurs with Serpentera destroying quite a few Zords and taking damage due to it's lower maneuverability than the Zords. Due to Serpentera being too powerful, Alpha had to transfer some energy to the Zords like he did in the fight against Rito, except he was more careful this time. Eventually the Zords attack Serpentera's power source, causing it to lose power rapidly. With it's remaining power, Serpentera attacks the remaining Zords before plummeting to the moon.

Serpentera's final attack overloads the Zords causing a power flux (like the one Rito caused when he fought the Thunderzords). But unlike the Thunderzords, the Zeo Zords and Zeo powers were too strong to be destroyed by it, but were severely weakened (also, just like in the battle with Rito, the power flux caused an overload in the Power Chamber as well, damaging it). With the Pyramidus badly damaged but capable of travel, Trey went back home in order to repair it. Auric was either killed or too injured and decided to reseal himself until he is fully healed. Zedd, injured by Serpentera's crash and realizing Rita is pregnant, decided to stop attacking the Rangers for the time being and returns to Vile's galaxy.

Then came TAPRM. The Zeo Zords and powers were still too weakened and damaged from the battle with Serpentera to be used to their full extent. This is why Kat's Zeo form couldn't withstand falling into water and why the powers and Zords were incapable of getting through the Nemesis Triangle.

Fortunately, in true Zordon fashion, he had a backup plan, so he and Alpha were working on stabilizing the weakened Zeo powers in order to use them to create new Zords and powers. The Rangers later helped them finish. And so the Turbo Zords and powers were created. They were superior to the damaged Zeo Zords and powers, but inferior to Zeo Zords and powers as they were during the Zeo season. Still, they were better than nothing so they had to get the job done.

The battle with Serpentera attracted attention from people on Earth as pieces of Zords started raining down like a meteor shower, one of them crashing into the French agency Bulk and Skull were working for, destroying it and causing them to have to return home. People got worried about the pieces of Zords falling, so the police force was willing to re-hire Stone, Bulk and Skull. They needed all the men they could get.

Kimberly also saw this and decided to check on the Rangers. She contacted Jason (since she was reluctant to contact Tommy after the infamous letter) and he told her everything was okay, and that Rita and Zedd are defeated for good. Happy to hear this, she decided to visit them and called Jason over to help her plan her visit. So he traveled to where ever she was, the two spent some time together, reminiscing about old times and, when Kimberly finally had some free time, they left for Angel Grove. They thought scuba diving might be a good way to hang out with the team, so they decided to test out their gear and got themselves captured.

The power flux damaged the Power Chamber, hence why everyone decided to move their center of operations up. This is why, instead of being underground like in Zeo, the power Chamber was on ground floor in the Turbo finale.

[cleanuphtr15]

Rita and Zedd called off their conquest because she was preggers. Duh. (sticks out tongue icon)

[Dark storm]

lol and I think many of us still wonder about and question that too, even tho is has really nothing to do with the storyline. Why does Kimberly break up with Tommy and then come back and invite Jason to go scuba diving?

Originally Posted by cleanuphtr15

Rita and Zedd called off their conquest because she was preggers. Duh. (sticks out tongue icon)

of course. That must have been when they had Thrax. Can't imagine what child-birth must be like for an evil sorceress, especially one whose Japanese counter-part hated children

[Reaper33X]

Originally Posted by Dark storm

Why does Kimberly break up with Tommy and then come back and invite Jason to go scuba diving?

To make Tommy jealous, the bitch! haha

[Titanium321]

I don't know if it necessarily needs head canon. A lot of these things can just be chalked up to the passage of time and how Zeo ends.

Originally Posted by blacklion400

.What happened to the Zeo powers and where did the Turbo powers come from?

Turbo powers are made in the movie as the dialogue states. Zordon tells them they are making new powers right there to cross over to Maligore's island and they just stick with them over Zeo. Which we saw they still had in the movie. Turbo Powers were just more effective at the time.

.What happened to Bulk and Skull's trip to France and why did they, and Lt. Stone suddenly get re-hired into the police force?

They went to France, they came back. They got one last chance on the force, according to Stone. But Stone ultimately went with running the juice bar and Bulk and Skull disappeared as far as everyone else was concerned.

.Why did Rita and Zedd suddenly quit trying to fight the power rangers, when they seemed quite determined at the end of Zeo?

Who said they quit? Rita just told Divatox to run. Laughing at her. She was mocking Divatox, thinking she was beneath her and an attempt at taking down the Rangers when she couldn't was ridiculous.

Rita and Zedd just weren't on Earth or the Moon at the time of Turbo. When we see them again, they're working for Dark Spectre to fight the forces of good. Turbo was a breather for them.

.Where did Jason suddenly disappear to, as the movie suggests he's been away for a while?

Same place Tommy disappeared to when he lost his powers. He just wasn't there and stayed out of the Rangers way until he got a SCUBA invite from Kimberly.