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Powers From the Past is the first season premiere episode of Power Rangers Dino Charge of the Power Rangers series. This episode introduces the layout of the story including Sledge's crew, Keeper, the Energems, and the T-Rex Zord.

Synopsis[]

Millions of years after the mysterious and powerful Energems were entrusted to the now extinct dinosaurs for protection from a ruthless bounty hunter, a pair of courageous teens find themselves in possession of two of these long lost precious artifacts, and come face to face with a monster who will do everything in his power to steal them for himself.

Plot[]

In outer space, an alien named Keeper, piloting a small spaceship, attempts to flee from Sledge, a murderous intergalactic bounty hunter who commandeers a larger spaceship that hauls asteroids and alien outlaws. Poisandra, a crewmate of Sledge who is aboard his ship, manages to lock-on to Keeper's ship and shoot it down, causing the smaller ship to crash land on Earth. However, Keeper survived the crash. Sensing the arrival of Fury, another crewmate of Sledge who tracked him down to Earth, Keeper quickly hides the legendary Energems and plays dead when Fury arrives, takes the case where the Energems were kept. After Fury leaves the planet, Keeper then entrusts the Energems to the dinosaurs by bonding them to their bodies.

When Fury returns to Sledge's ship, Sledge discovers that the Energem case is a decoy, which contains a bomb. The bomb explodes and causes the prized asteroids he was holding via tractor beam to fall onto Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs and presumably both Keeper and Fury. Sledge's ship hurtles toward space uncontrollably as he swears revenge against Keeper.

65 million years later, a teenager named Tyler Navarro visits Amber Beach Dinosaur Museum, where he gains knowledge of the location of Sampson Caves. He heads down there to investigate, where he encounters a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil with the Red Energem. No sooner he is pursued by a figure cloaked in black, but Tyler manages to elude it by navigating the narrow caves.

At the Museum, Chase Randall, a custodian, slacks off with his co-worker, Koda, as they are about to head out on a dig with the museum curator, Dr. Kendall Morgan. Shelby Watkins, a waitress at the museum's snack bar, tries unsuccessfully to convince Dr. Morgan to join the expedition (after also failing to convince Chase and Koda to let her join), so she stows away on the truck. While at the dig site, she witnesses a cloaked thief stealing a crate and attempts to alert the others, but they cannot hear her. Taking matters into her hands, she tries to go after the thief, but it attacks her. Suddenly, Tyler swoops in and swipes the crate from the figure's hands. They work together to outsmart the thief, which reveals himself to be a monster. Shelby then drops the crate revealing the Pink Energem. Iceage freezes them both as they try to secure the Energems, but the Energems' power, fueled by their direct contact with them, quickly thaws them out. With them, they gain fossilized weapons and they initiate, unwittingly, into their first transformation as Power Rangers. They fight head-on with Iceage. The T-Rex Zord appears and hurls Iceage far away, only for it to disappear as quickly as it arrived.

Giving Shelby a ride back to the city (as the expedition crew left without her), Tyler reveals to her that his father went missing 10 years ago, and he has been searching for him since then by using the notes he left, which include the location of Sampson Caves. Tyler shows Shelby a sketch of Fury, who Tyler believes may have been responsible for his father's disappearance.

In the distance, Fury is revealed to have survived and senses that some Energems have been found.

Cast[]

Errors[]

  • Shots of Earth varied between scenes from Pangaea to modern day. This can be seen when the very first shot of Earth from afar during the chase after Keeper happens as they pass the moon. It was Pangaea at first, but after that, the modern Earth is shown in every other shot.
    • Prehistoric Earth was shown to already be broken up into the modern day continents rather than all together as Pangaea. This is seen very clearly during the extinction sequence when the camera pulls back to reveal all three Americas.
    • While it is an error in which the continents are shown in their current configuration, the continents were indeed at an advanced stage of drift in the early Cenozoic period, 65 million years ago, as the current Greenland separated from the remainder of Laurasia and the Atlantic Ocean expanded. As seen in this map, other notable differences shown on TV include: the Hudson Bay having been opened and the Peninsula of Florida formed.
  • The dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures featured in the opening could not have been in the same place at the same time. The Velociraptor has only been found in Asia, the Titanosaurus in South America and India and France and Madagascar, the Stegosaurus was from the late Jurassic, the Plesiosaurus was from the mid-Jurassic, and the Parasaurolophus and Pteranodon became extinct just before the end of the Cretaceous. It would have been more appropriate to feature Edmontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Leptoceratops, Torosaurus, Ornithomimus, Didelphodon, and Champsosaurus. Only four of those featured--T. rex, Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, and Ankylosaurus--did indeed inhabit North America at the end of the Cretaceous period.
  • After the bomb that Fury accidentally delivers goes off, the damage was done to the very bottom of the ship, even though the explosion happened in the very front of the ship. This is seen when Sledge looks down through the damaged hole, which was located at the bottom.
  • When Tyler took a selfie, he held the phone in portrait but got a landscape shot.
  • When Shelby said "Hey! He's getting away!", the subtitles incorrectly referred to her as Sledge. The same mistake occurred to Iceage while cloaked when he said "No!"
  • The fossil seen by Tyler in his introduction is a Cryolophosaurus, which lived in Antarctica, and therefore would not have been found in North America like Chase says it was.

Notes[]

  • Michael Taber (Riley) is credited but does not appear in this episode.
  • In the original broadcast, the opening credits accidentally list Yoshi Sudarso by his birth name (Yoshua Sudarso) as opposed to his stage name. This is corrected from the next episode onwards, as well as on reruns and DVD releases.
  • Tyler and Shelby are the only two Dino Charge Rangers to appear morphed in this episode.
  • This episode contains no Sentai footage, marking the first time this has happened during the Saban Brands era and the first since Thunder Storm Part 1.
  • Monkeywi appears in one of Sledge's wanted posters.
  • In the scene where Chase tries to impress two girls, the one who said "buzz off" is portrayed by James Davies' real-life girlfriend.
  • Iceage recognizes the concept of Power Rangers, continuing the idea that it is a universal fighting force.
  • The line "You know what's in the crate?" recalls the photo game "Do you know what's in the box?", played by Power Rangers fans over social media, particularly Facebook Rangers, which Yoshi Sudarso, who plays Koda, is an active member of.
  • This is the first episode in Power Rangers to not feature a Yellow Ranger.
  • Not all of the outlaws are seen in Sledge's cells.

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Power nav icon List of Power Rangers Dino Charge and Dino Super Charge episodes Icon-kyoryuger
Dino Charge

1: Powers From the Past • 2: Past, Present and Fusion • 3: A Fool's Hour • 4: Return of the Caveman • 5: Breaking Black • 6: The Tooth Hurts • 7: Let Sleeping Zords Lie • 8: Double Ranger, Double Danger • 9: When Logic Fails • 10: The Royal Rangers • 11: Break Out • 12: Knight After Knights • 13: Sync or Swim • 14: True Black • 15: Rise of a Ranger • Halloween Special: The Ghostest With the Mostest • 16: No Matter How You Slice It • 17: World Famous (in New Zealand) • 18: Deep Down Under • 19: Wishing for a Hero • Christmas Special: Race to Rescue Christmas • 20: One More Energem

Dino Super Charge

1: When Evil Stirs • 2: Forgive and Forget • 3: Nightmare in Amber Beach • 4: A Date with Danger • 5: Roar of the Red Ranger • 6: Forged Under Fire • 7: Home Run Koda • 8: Riches and Rags • 9: Besties 4Eva • 10: Gone Fishin • 11: Love at First Fight • Halloween Special: Trick or Trial • 12: Catching Some Rays • 13: Recipe for Disaster • 14: Silver Secret • 15: Wings of Danger • 16: Freaky Fightday • 17: Worgworld • 18: The Rangers Rock! • 19: Edge of Extinction • 20: End of Extinction • Christmas Special: Here Comes Heximas

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