The Chemeliac Warrior

Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy, Episode 29

Original Airdate: 11-3-1999

Last Time: Leo decided to pick up an Asian chick, and, in all honesty, he's just the kind of dude you'd expect to have an Asian fetish.

In the trackless wilds of the ridiculously expansive Terra Venture, Mike is going for a run. It's been a while since I've seen Mike, to be honest. He quickly comes upon Vilemax and Kegler who are moving in a bunch of equipment as part of their latest plan to destroy "that kaleidoscopic corps." Vilemax is now officially awesome. Kegler, the monster who is half-man, half-keg, drops a data disc as he runs off to help. Kegler is not officially awesome. A monster, with a fancy checkered color scheme, shows up and threaten Mike. Mike morphs and tries to defeat Senor Checkers, whose real name is Chemeliac, but the monster shows off his special ability to copy anyone's weapon, and blows Mike up with the Magna Defender gun. The other Rangers show up to help, but well, the episode needs to be more than two minutes long, so Chemeliac flees. Credits!

Later in the infirmary, Mike is describing Chemeliac's powers. Alpha tries to take a look at the disc that Mike recovered, but it's too badly damaged to get anything out off. The Rangers decide that they have to know what Vilemax's plan is. On the command carrier, Trakeena is happy with Chemeliac's process. Chemeliac uses Trakeena's archives to learn all of the Rangers' moves. See, kids, archiving TV shows can totally help you out in the long-term. Hell, one videotape from 1992 is the only proof I have that Super Dave Osborne once had an animated series that featured the most offensive Asian character made after 1973. The late 80s and early 90s were not a great time for cartoons to be honest.

Anyway, the monster takes a good long time to analyze the Rangers and then he's good to go. And to elaborate on my point from earlier, when I say early 90s, I mean up to 1992, because things got better after that.

Elsewhere, Kegler is supervising the construction of the new secret weapon designed to take down the Rangers. Kegler claims, "I just love it when a plan comes together." An A-Team joke? On a kid's show in 1999? Seriously? See, Kegler, this is why nobody likes you. Anyway, the device appears to be some sort of giant ray. Unfortunately, the Rangers are already on their way, so Chemeliac has to fight them until Vilemax's death ray is ready.

Chemeliac is able to trounce the Rangers with his knowledge of the Rangers' tactics. The Rangers decide to up the ante by calling on the Lights of Orion, but Chemeliac is able to call on a facsimile version of the lights and forces the Rangers to retreat. Kai suggest the unorthodox strategy of thinking this one through before attacking, and this gives Leo an idea.

In the infirmary, Mike is able to piece together enough information to see that the villains are building a giant laser, but can't figure out why they'd make such a thing. Well, Mike, I'm sure it's for peaceful purposes only. The Rangers, meanwhile have headed out to the site where they're building the laser, and have to fight Chemeliac again. This time they switch up their moves and are able to defeat him. Leo decides to run down Chemeliac on his Capsular Cycle in a sequence that just kind of seems unfair.

Of course, that's only half the battle, and now the Rangers must defeat him at giant mode. Meanwhile, Mike realizes that the whole point of the giant laser was to blow up the megazord when it came out, and the Rangers are now sitting ducks. So Mike shows up and blows up the laser, much to Vilemax's dismay.

Back to the megazord fight, the Rangers realize that Chemeliac can still copy weapons, so they call on the Stratoforce, which arrives to the tune of some pretty rockin' incidental music. Stratoforce pulls out Centaurus' gun, and that pretty much ends Chemeliac.

Later, Mike and Leo are doing some more jogging. I guess there's not really much to wrap up this episode, come to think of it. Leo's Galactabeasts shows up to say thanks to Mike....and that'll pretty much do it for the episode. Show Over!

Next Time: Crisis on Infinite Terra Ventures!