End of Time, Part I

Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 38

Original Airdate: 11-3-2001

Last Time: The Rangers captured the last of Ransik's mutants and wondered where they were going in life....turns out nowhere, because Alex called in to tell them that they're all about to die.

In the clock tower, the Rangers continue their conversation, and Alex reveals that, in fact, they can survive the climatic battle by fleeing to the future....except Wes, who's not from the future and therefore cannot be saved.

At Ransik's Goodtimery, Ransik orders his army of Cyclobots to capture Frax at all costs. Credits!

That night, Wes has a nightmare about everyone dying in some sort of time vortex, and wakes up to hear the other Rangers deciding to remain in the past.

Later, Nadira is leading some Cyclobots and decides to take a half-day and go shopping. In her latest robbery, she gets confronted by Trip, and the fight induces labor in a pregnant woman. Trip calls off the fight and asks Nadira to help him deliver the baby. Er....I'm not obstetrician, but I'm reasonably sure that unless it's the fastest labor in human history, there's time to take her to a hospital. Anyway, Nadira agrees to help.

Frax, conversely, is more focused on killing humanity, and has finished his latest and last robot, Doomtron. Well, I guess you don't fuck with a robot named Doomtron. Back at the clothing store, Nadira helps deliver the baby and her heart grows three sizes that day, which would be great except it's going to lead to the lamest finale in Power Rangers history...so....meh.

Anyway, Nadira's new love for humanity has caused her to question her dad's mission to destroy mankind. Fortunately, Ransik get called off as he's finally captures Frax and Doomtron, and realizes that he still has one last thing he can use Frax for.

But before something exciting happens, Nadira has to watch children at the park because watching a woman give birth has made her no longer evil.

A thousand years later, yet somehow at the same time, Alex realizes that his chucklehead subordinates have refused to come back to the future, but well, the Rangers love the past so much that they're willing to die for it....although given that Alex implicitly is arguing that the course of history won't really change if the Rangers die or escape, I don't really get their compulsive need to go out in a blaze of glory.

Okay, time for the fight? No! It's time for Nadira to ask Frax why humans and mutants can't get along. How about, "Because the mutants are lead by a psychopath and the humans are diehard eugenicists." Frax decides to give a monologue about the neverending cycle of hate. But, Nadira doesn't hate all humans, can she end the cycle of hatred? I don't know or care and think it would be a odd digression to end the season on, but the producers disagree. Anyway, Frax urges Nadira to break the cycle of hate and I don't know bring peace to all mankind...and mutantkind...not robots, though. Frax gets carted off for a free lobotomy from Ransik.

Nadira meets him later and realizes that Ransik removed the robot's free will. In fairness, the robot has tried to kill Frax several times.

Back at the clock tower, the Rangers are preparing to load the mutants back onto the time ship, and Wes goes off to see Mr. Collins. Wes tells his father some ominous statements about the future.

In the timeship, the Rangers are loading the last of the mutants for transport to the future. Wes discovers an auto-pilot feature on the timeship, and well, no points for guessing what he's going to do with it.

Meanwhile, Ransik is ready for his final push to conquer Silver Hills and activates Doomtron, now piloted by a "re-educated" Frax. Doomtron attacks the city and Wes pulls out the auto-pilot manual so that he can put his plan into action. It's quite a thick tome.

Eric arrives at the scene of the rampage first and summons the Q-Rex. Unfortunately, the Rangers can't summon the Megazord due to some temporal distortions, which the Q-Rex is causing by virtue of its unique power source. Wes tries to get Eric to shut down the Q-Rex, but well, the Q-Rex is all they've got, so Eric refuses. Another time hole opens are starting sucking up the city.

Wes then decides that he's got to put his plan into action and lures the team onto the timeship and then sends it into the future. To Be Continued!

Next Time: Er...well....more the same, really.