My Take on Power Rangers: Time Force

 The season opens in the year 3000, at Time Force HQ. Some new recruits are being told (by Jen) the history of Time Force. Basically, Time Force's origins date back to Lightspeed Rescue. Lightspeed Rescue protected the planet and continued to develop new technology. Eventually, they developed three new branches. One branch policed extra-terrestrial activity. One policed inter-dimensional activity. One policed time travel.....and that was Time Force. Time Force has five Power Rangers (well, usually....right now they only have one). Each one is the descendant of former rangers. The morphers cannot be activated without DNA that has the morphing grid signature.

The recruits are dismissed and Jen begins to walk out of the room. She is stopped by Alex who tells her not to look so annoyed. She tells him that she signed up for the job so that she could be a police officer and not just someone who gives routine lectures. Alex kisses her cheek and they go to a restaurant. While eating, they hear guns firing, and rush outside. They see a group of cyborgs shooting at a group of gene-splicers (who return fire, in what is apparently a turf war). They see lightspeed rescue officer, hiding behind a car, calling for back-up. Jen rushes over to her and informs her that she works for Time Force and then offers her help. The officer, named Katie, brushes her off and tells her to leave this to go back to her time portals and leave this to the locals. Jen steps up, pulls out a side-arm, and shoots at the shooters. She tells them to drop their weapons. They all laugh at her. She, then, presses a button on her gun. This turns her gun into a large plasma cannon. She repeats herself and they start to shoot at her. She demonstrates great agility as she dodges their blasts, jumps in the air, and blasts right in the center of them. The shockwave of the blast causes them to fall back. Suddenly, a Lightspeed Rescue hover-bike arrives. An officer (Lucas) jumps off of it and lands on top of one of the cyborgs. He takes his sun-glasses off, throws them on the ground, and smiles at Jen. Jen rolls her eyes and tells them that they have a lot of work to do. She and Alex walk away.

While walking away, Alex scolds Jen for not following protocol and interfering with Lightspeed Rescue business. He tells her that their job is with Time Force, and not with any other part of Lightspeed Rescue. Jen ignores him and gets in a cab. She arrives at HQ and is told to see her CO. When she gets to her CO's office, she is told that everyone at Time Force heard about what happened. Apparently, everyone is impressed...including her CO. Thus: Jen is asked to become a Power Ranger, and she accepts.

That's the first episode. The next episode involves another turf war. However, there is a large cyborg in this one. At the end of the battle, he opens a wormhole and leaves. After seeing this, Katie and Lucas rush to Time Force HQ and inform them that a criminal has used a wormhole. Time Force uses a scanner to see if any wormholes have been opened in the city, recently, and see that Katie and Lucas were right. They pinpoint the destination of the wormhole and order Jen, Alex, and Trip (a field technology specialist) to go after the cyborg. Katie and Lucas insist on going, since they know the cyborg very well. They go on the mission with the three Time Force officers.

They stop the cyborg and bring it back to the year 3000. Katie and Lucas are offered to be part of the team and even rangers. They accept.

The following episode deals with Katie and Lucas adapting to their new jobs. It also involves Trip reversing a wormhole, using a pocket device, as soon as he sees an enemy jump through time. (The device will only reverse a wormhole, if it has been opened for less than 30 seconds.) This gets Trip a morpher.

There is eventually an episode that involves the rangers following a criminal to prehistoric times. While there, they meet Leo (who is not yet a Power Ranger) and Auric. They help them locate the criminal. The criminal captures the rangers, Auric and Leo. They are put in a cave/cell. While there, they meet Eric. Eric is a Time Force special agent who was sent back in time on a secret mission, to find stollen Time Force technology. He was captured and has been in the cell for five years. The rangers help him break out and find the stolen tech, which is a silver and red box. When they find it, Eric sticks his hand in the box and his transformed into the Quantum Ranger. He helps the rangers defeat the criminal. Instead of arresting him, though, Eric kills him. They go back to the future (GREAT SCOTT!) and Eric walks off.

The following episode deals with Eric rebeling against Time Force orders and doing things his way. In other words: he continues to use lethal force, on a regular basis. He eventually sees the look in a criminals eyes, right as he is about to kill the criminal, and decides to arrest it instead. Thus: he learns the value of life (awww).

The season ends with a multi-part episode that deals with a demon cyborg (yeah, a demon cyborg) escaping through a wormhole and the rangers following it back to the 21st century. They team up with the Lightspeed Rangers to defeat it. The rangers' relations to older rangers are revealed. Katie is the decendant of TJ and Cassie. Jen is the decendant of Tommy and Kat. Trip is the decendant of billy. Lucas is the decendant of Zhane. Eric is the decendant of Adam. Alex is the decendant of Jason. They leave to go back to their own time.