When two earthling astronauts accidentally
set an evil sorceress named Rita Repulsa free, an inter-dimensional wizard from the Planet Eltare, Zordon, and his trusty
atomatom, Alpha 5, call upon 5 teenagers to use the ancient powers of the Dinosaurs to defeat her and defend earth. Zachary
Taylor, Kimberly Hart, William Cranston, Trini Kwan, and Jason Lee Scott are the Black, Pink, Blue, Yellow, and Red power
rangers respectively, and with the power of the Mastodon, Pterodactyl, Triceratops, Saber-Tooth Tiger, and Tyrannosaurus, and
fight to save mankind, gaining power weapons and giant mechanized versions of their dinosaurs conviently called Dinozords.
After several fights with Rita, the rangers
meet their match when Rita brings forth her evil Green Ranger, using the sixth power coin, she possess a new kid in town named
Tommy to destroy the rangers. She grants him the sword of darkness, the Dragon Dagger, and the Dragonzord, only to have him
freed from her spell and brought to the good side.
Tommy fights alongside the rangers as they gain a zord and new combinations, until Rita
slowly drains his powers, weakening him signifcantly and causing the rangers to loose an advantage.
Before long, Rita's master, Lord Zedd, tired of her failures, comes to the moon and banishes
her in a trash can. He then sets his gaze upon Earth and quickly disposes of the Dinozords. With them gone, Zordon has no
choice but to upgrade the old dinozord models with the power of thunder, creating the Thunderzords: The Masodon-Lion, Pterodactyl-Firebird,
Triceratops-Unicorn, Saber-Tooth Tiger-Griffin, and the Tyrannosaurus-Red Dragon. Tommy, being too weak and unstable, is unable
to upgrade to a thunderzord, and remains for emergency use only, before his powers are finally dissipated.
With the loss of Tommy, Lord Zedd gets more difficult to handle, and before long, he creates
a monster that disables the Thunderzords temporarily. And when the rangers need Zordon the most, he and Alpha mysteriously
disappear, only to return with a White Ranger, that turns out to be Tommy, the new leader of the Power Team. As the white
ranger, Tommy uses the power of the Tigerzord, and also has a talking saber known as Saba. Tigerzord combines with the Lion, Firebird,
Unicorn, and Griffin thunderzords to form Mega Tigerzord, which is capable of destroying the toughest of Lord Zedd's
monsters.
Before long, Rita returns and put Lord Zedd under a love spell, causing her permanent
stay and more trouble for the rangers. Because of the stronger monsters, Zordon and Alpha recruit Tor the shuttlezord
to aid the rangers in battle against the toughest of monsters.
When the World Peace Conference is about to be held, Zack, Trini, and Jason are chosen
to go and pass the power onto three new rangers; Adam Park, Aisha Campbell, and Rocky DeSantos. These three made wonderful
replacements and managed to help the other three originals fend off Rita and Zedd's combined attempts.
On the brink of defeat, Rita and Zedd seem desperate, when Rita's brother Rito shows
up with a present and destroys the Thunderzords and the Tigerzord. With their powers gone, the Rangers set out on a quest
to find newer, greater powers by the creator of the power coins; Ninjor. Once the rangers reach Ninjor in the desert
of despair, he is at first skeptical, and then finally gives them the power of the ninjeti.
Adam gains the power of the Frog, Kimberly the Crane, Billy the Wolf, Aisha the Bear,
Rocky the Ape, and Tommy the Falcon. Each ranger keeps their color, but gains a new Ninja Zord in the form of their
spirit powers. With these new powers, the rangers gain Ninja Ranger power which gives them advance ninjeti techniques
and helps them fend of Rita and Zedd's new henchmen called Tengu Warriors (Tenga being the singular form.)
The Ninjeti Powers become a great aid until Rita recruits yet another human
to destroy the rangers, this time trying to steal a power coin. This new human being Katherine Hillard, a transfer student
from Australia. Kimberly mistakenly befriends her and at the same time 'coincidentally' finds a stray white cat, which
is really Katherine "Kat" in disguise. When a trainer comes to Angel Grove and wants Kimberly to participate in the Pan
Global games for Gymnastics. Around this time, Kat steals Kim's power coin, gets in the Falconzord, steals that, and
returns to Rita and Zedd. With these new aquisitions, Rita and Zedd awaken the dormant Shogun Zords to destroy Angel
Grove. They kidnap a weakened Kimberly and use her to blackmail the rangers into piloting the Shogun Zords, which only come
in five colors anyway: Black, White, Blue, Yellow, and Red.
Eventually, Tommy rescues Kim but she is too weak to continue as a ranger
and chooses to go to the pan global games, choosing Katherine as her replacement.
Kat makes a fine addition to the team, but before long, trouble increases
and Zordon brings back Titanus to help the rangers. Finally, Master Vile, Rita and Rito Repulsa's father, lands on the
moon and attacks the earth. He manages to drain the Ninja Zords of their powers but is stopped, then he attempts to get
the Zeo crystal, an ancient powered crystal that is protected by a forcefield, blocking all evil beings. Tommy
takes the Zeo Crystal and the Falcon Zord and the rangers split the Zeo crystal into five separate pieces and scatter them
around the earth. Master vile turns time back in an attempt to destroy the younger rangers, who lose their Ninja Powers when
reverted.. Billy uses a device to restore his normal age, but the device is destroyed befor he can help the others. Zordon
calls on the rangers of Aquitar, the Alien Rangers, to defend earth while Tommy, Adam, Aisha, Kat, and Rocky voyage out to
find the pieces of the Zeo Crystal, their key to getting their age back. Everyone returns from their separate parts of the
world except Aisha, who vied to stay in Africa to help sick animals, and Tanya Sloan takes her place. The rangers reassemble
the Zeo crystal only to have Rito and Goldar steal it from the Command Center destroy the command center. However,
in the explosion, Rita and Goldar drop the crystal.
The Machine Empire ruins Master Vile and company's celebration and kicks them
off the moon. The Machine Empire then attempts to conquer earth, the last in a chain of unconquered planets...what will our
powerless rangers do?
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