Power Rangers S.P.D. facts for kids

Three experienced B-Squad cadets, Sky, Bridge, and Syd, are assigned to bring in a pair of criminals who, just like them, possess genetic powers. Before they begin the capture, they are promoted and given Delta Morphers, becoming Rangers Blue (Sky, much to his dissatisfaction; he has wanted to be the Red Ranger like his father), Green (Bridge) and Pink (Sydney) when they perform their first morph in Part 2.

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When the evil Emperor Gruumm attempts to open a portal and invade Earth, the two criminals, Jack and Z, are recruited as the Red and Yellow Rangers - Space Patrol Delta's B-Squad Power Rangers are now complete thanks to the last two Rangers being selected.

The A-Squad is sent away on a mission in the Helix Nebula, leaving it up to the B-Squad Rangers to defend the Earth. However, Jack discovers the advantages of being the Red Ranger and begins to abuse his position heavily. Eventually, Jack's teammates call his leadership skills into question, and he is stripped of his leader status and Ranger powers by Cruger, but later gives them back when Jack learns a valuable lesson. Together, the B-Squad capture the criminal Praxis.

Still reeling from losing his chance at being the Red Ranger, Sky refuses to participate in group activities and argues with Jack over his leadership role. He loses his temper almost once Jack and Bridge are granted sleek, new Patrol Cycles. Meanwhile, Gruumm plans to steal diamonds to convert them into energy for a robot piloted by Ringbah. Jack orders Sky to watch over the diamonds, but refuses, allowing Grumm to get away with the diamonds. When Cruger scolds Sky for his deliberate actions, he later agrees to cooperate with Jack going forward.

Syd is sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several citizens, but is disappointed to be paired with the frequently malfunctioning R.I.C. (Robotic Interactive Canine), who had been pestering her throughout the day. Upon finding a clue, R.I.C saves her by shielding her from a krybot's blast, thus damaging himself severely. Feeling guilty for her earlier attitude towards him, Syd returns the favor by taking R.I.C. to Bridge & Boom for repairs, upgrading him to "R.I.C. Version 2.0." With the newly upgraded R.I.C's help, Syd finds that the missing humans have been converted into a type of fuel, and the Rangers use R.I.C.'s new transformation, the Canine Cannon, to confine the culprit, Rhinix, to a containment card and restoring the citizens to normal.

While searching for an intergalactic bank robber, the B-Squad catch a Trilondon alien (referred to as "T-Top") near the scene of the crime. While the others assume they have their suspect, an unconvinced Bridge requests to perform his own investigation. While Bridge is searching for leads, the Rangers confront the supposed criminal and discover not only that he's innocent of the robbery, but he is a bounty hunter searching for the real culprit. Using his unorthodox methods, Bridge successfully unmasks the real culprit: Hydrax from Planet Fernovia.

Kids mock a lonely boy named Sam for his teleportation abilities. He becomes a target for Mora, who promises to be his friend if he helps her creation Bugglesworth turn the city's population into dolls. When the Rangers confront Sam, Z tries to befriend him, but he refuses. When they find out the captives will be trapped permanently in doll form soon, Z and Jack find Sam and try to convince him that being different isn't a bad thing. However, Bugglesworth appears and convinces Sam to come with him while leaving Jack and Z to deal with a new, extremely powerful Orangehead Krybot.

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After almost being destroyed by the Orangehead Krybot, the Rangers return to base during which Z recounts a childhood memory, where a cloaked figure saved her from a monster after she ran away from school, where she was bullied. Cruger reveals that he was the cloaked figure who saved Z. He explains that their parents worked for S.P.D. with Kat for so long, it altered their genes, allowing their kids (the Rangers) to have powers. Sam is the last child of the group. Z finally convinces Sam that she is his friend, but Bugglesworth and the henchmen attack them before they can celebrate. With Z captured, Sam uses his power to conjure Bugglesworth's staff and smash it. The Rangers beat the Orangehead with the Canine Cannon, and duel Bugglesworth and his giant robot in the Delta Squad Megazord. Once his robot is destroyed, the Rangers contain Bugglesworth, restoring his victims to normal. Sam is subsequently welcomed into the S.P.D Academy.

Jack is left in charge while Commander Cruger is away at an intergalactic conference when a U.F.O. crashes into New Tech City. The pilot is revealed to be Sky's old friend, Dru Harrington. While Sky is delighted to see his old comrade again, Jack is immediately suspicious and states that Dru must be reevaluated because he was missing in action. Sky realizes his mistake with trusting his old friend when Doggie returns to the Academy and is wounded by an intruder and hospitalized. The intruder attacks Sky and reveals his identity as Dru, having been working for Broodwing. Jack allows Sky a head start to confront Dru in a final battle.

It's Syd's birthday, and she is over the moon with excitement. However, Sinuku has just escaped from a satellite prison, and Jack chooses Syd to assist him in staking out Sinuku's former partner Dr. Rheas, leaving Syd disappointed that she must work on her birthday. During the stakeout, Jack takes a walk and runs into Dr. Rheas, who helps him realize how significant birthdays are, letting him figure out why Syd is so mad at him. When Syd confronts him for nearly blowing their cover by talking to Dr. Rheas, Jack explains that he doesn't know when his birthday is. They continue with their heart-to-heart when they're called to battle. During the distraction, Sinuku grabs Dr. Rheas and forces her to tell him where an Activator he's looking for is. Jack runs after them and holds them off until the others can join. After putting a stop to Sinuku's plans, the Rangers cheer Syd up with a surprise birthday party.

Doggie is plagued by nightmares involving his home planet Sirius, and Emperor Gruumm is plagued on how to defeat the Rangers. Still, Mora gives him advice to beat someone by taking out their leader. To stir up trouble, Gruumm visits Earth and takes a human form to visit Broodwing at Piggy's new restaurant, which he formed from the money that he won from a discarded winning lottery ticket. Kat discovers a strange energy disturbance caused by Gruumm's visiting General Benagg, an old "friend" of Commander Cruger, causing Cruger's pain only to worsen. Benaag calls Cruger out to battle, but Doggie still refuses, revealing to the Rangers the history of Sirius and the origins of S.P.D. Meanwhile, Kat is ambushed by Krybots outside the base and confronted by Benaag after Cruger angrily orders her out of his sight.

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With Kat missing, the team compensates by bringing in Boom to check the proton spikes. The Rangers then confront Cruger about his worsening attitude towards everyone, forcing Cruger to explain that he lost his wife, Isinia Cruger, during the battle on Sirius. With Gruumm on Earth, the team learns that the spikes, if not deactivated, will cause a major catastrophe. Soon after, R.I.C. returns with a message from Benaag, who reveals Kat as his hostage. Doggie is left with no choice but to fight, despite Kat's warnings of a trap. Doggie sends the Rangers off to deal with the giant energy spikes that have been placed around the city and prepares to face Benaag, taking his Shadow Saber and a Patrol Morpher Kat made for him which he initially refused to take. Doggie becomes the Shadow Ranger for the first time to defeat Benaag and rescue Kat.

When the B-Squad begins to take Shadow Ranger for granted, Doggie teaches them a lesson by leaving them on their own to stop Drakel from using the power from an evil stone to resist the sunlight that weakens him and wreak havoc on the city.

The B-Squad finds a standout D-Squad cadet in a girl named S.O.P.H.I.E. (Series One Processor/Hyper Intelligent Ecryptor), who succeeds where her fellow D-Squad members failed by defeating Krybots during a training exercise. Mora begs Gruumm for one last chance to defeat the Rangers to keep her childhood and recruits Valko to assist her. Valko reveals his plan to defeat the Rangers by attempting the impossible: gaining control of a massive robot named Goradon. But first, he needs a piece of technology that only S.P.D has, and S.O.P.H.I.E. matches his needs through her body having something he is after. Meanwhile, the new standout cadet takes matters into her own hands to help out when Kat needs to decrypt a new sequence for phase 2 of the base's Delta Base Defense System (D.B.D.S.). The first phase of the D.B.D.S. sees the base morph into a Delta Command Crawler mode that moves the base into battle. However, after the battle, S.O.P.H.I.E. is discovered to be a cyborg, having kept it a secret out of fear of being expelled for not being human. When she is interrogated about trying to access the D.B.D.S., the Rangers - including Bridge, who saw her potential as a cadet - distrust her and she is subsequently expelled.

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S.O.P.H.I.E., having been expelled from the academy, falls into Valko's grasp and is taken and hooked up to Goradon's internal systems, while Doggie tells the Rangers off for expelling her based on their understanding of her cyborg body being equipped with technology that they believe is too risky and sends them out to find her. Bridge eventually realizes that she houses the piece of equipment Valko needed; a Series One Processor Hyper Intelligent Encryptor which is what S.O.P.H.I.E.'s name is short for! The Rangers find Valko with Piggy's help, and Cruger eventually rescues S.O.P.H.I.E., who proves to be the key to unlocking the Rangers' greatest weapon yet: phase 2 of the D.B.D.S. program - Delta Command Megazord. In the end, the Rangers learn not to be prejudice towards human cyborgs. However, having had enough of Mora's failures, Gruumm transforms her into her true form; an adult named Morgana.

Boom's lie about being a Ranger and A-Squad Commander comes back to haunt him when his parents, who are unaware of his true occupation, come to visit. Syd, Z and Bridge help him keep up the rouse while Jack and Sky hunt a dimension-hopping General Tomars. When a fight breaks out and Boom attempts to continue his charade as the non-existent Orange Ranger, the other Rangers get into trouble. To help them, Boom reveals to his parents his real job and the Rangers can defeat General Tomars.

The Rangers apprehend and take the evil Wootox back to headquarters, which he escapes from by swapping bodies with Sky, destroying the translator, and searching for the Delta Command Megazord controls. Except along the way, the fake Sky runs into Kat while the real Sky in Wootox's body must convince the others he truly is himself without an alien translator. R.I.C. ends up being the only one who can tell the difference between the two of them and Sky uses Wootox's powers to swap them back in payback.

Gruumm transports an alien samurai named Katana from ancient Japan to the present via a time portal, and the Rangers are sent to confront the warrior, who is confused by present-day Kyoto looking different than that of his own time. After being tricked by Broodwing that the Rangers are trying to take over Kyoto, Katana duels them while Doggie and Kat head to Japan upon being alerted to the presence of a giant robot. Jack uses Commander Cruger's "Shadow Saber" to defeat Katana honorably in a one-on-one swordfight, and Katana returns to his own time once another time portal opens (during which a mysterious ball of light emerges from the portal). Afterward, Cruger tells Jack that the "Shadow Saber" he was lent was just a training sword in disguise.

While Commander Cruger is plagued with nightmares, S.P.D.'s Supreme Commander Fowler Birdie visits Earth. After mocking the Rangers, arrogantly trying to poach Dr. Manx, and rudely comparing a Ranger battle to Cruger's fight on Sirius, he orders Cruger to split the Rangers up. When Cruger refuses citing it would make easy targets out of them, Birdie takes over the Delta Base, relieving him of duty. With a distraught Ranger team, Dr. Manx tries consoling them while dealing with Birdie. Meanwhile, Gruumm heads to Earth to face Commander Cruger in battle and an energy surge alerts the team. Gruumm easily overpowers the Rangers, who were split up under Birdie's command, forcing Commander Birdie to take matters into his own hands and fight Grumm by himself. Unfortunately, Birdie doesn't fare much better than the Rangers. Upon being informed of Gruumm's challenge, Cruger shows us a flashback of being responsible for Gruumm's missing horn. With Kat's help, Cruger returns to save the day, and an apologetic Birdie reinstates him.

Commander Cruger asks the Rangers to report to him about their mission to stop the World Gold Depository from being robbed, as their video feed of the battle had malfunctioned. Each Ranger delivers a different story, making themselves out to be better than each other. However, the truth comes out once Kat reconstructs the video feed. The fact was that a mysterious ball of light destroyed all the Krybots to free the Rangers.

Boom gathers everyone for an urgent update from his makeshift radio signal grabber he built. A message comes through from the future, telling of S.P.D.'s defeat at the hands of the Troobain army in the year 2040. While discussing whether they should believe the news or not, Morgana puts her plan into action, taking time to torment Z who hurt her doll in "Sam: Part 1". Things get even worse when the prophecy seems to come true with the aid of Morgana's most powerful allies, the brothers Shorty and Devastation. Birdie gets back to them upon receiving the news and states that he can't send any help to them as he fears sending reinforcements might be falling into a trap by Gruum.

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As the Rangers are on the brink of defeat, help arrives in the form of a mysterious individual calling himself the Omega Ranger. Shorty falls to the might of this enigmatic new Ranger, and his Omega Max Megazord. He refuses to allow the other Rangers to help him in his upcoming battle against Morgana and Devastation, citing that their inferior technology would only get in the way. While trying to get an explanation from Omega Ranger, Morgana and Devastation call him out. When Devastation goes too far by disregarding Morgana's safety to get at Omega, the Rangers must step into action. They are hesitant to help the egotistical future ranger, but Cruger reminds them of their duty and an S.P.D. Code Omega mentioned. Together the six Rangers put a stop to Morgana's plan. Afterwards, the Omega Ranger later reveals himself to be Sam.

When Cruger begins giving more attention to Sam, the Rangers start to grow jealous. Morgana approaches Mysticon, a magician who's down on his luck, and offers him a new wand in exchange for his help in defeating the Rangers. The Rangers defeat Mysticon's assistant Al and interrogate him where he eventually reveals that he got his wand from Morgana. When Sam is sent to spy on Mysticon's magic show, the rangers take matters into their own hands and defy Cruger's orders, during which Syd is placed under a spell upon applying to be Mysticon's assistant. Meanwhile, Broodwing begins plotting against Grumm when the emperor forces Broodwing to give a free robot to Mysticon, which is subsequently destroyed by the rangers' new Megazord combination; the Delta Max Megazord.

The B-Squad's day off is brought to a halt when criminals they've already contained attack New Tech City, leaving them perplexed as to how they could've escaped. Upon finding out the criminals are still in containment, Kat borrows Jack's morpher to upload the S.P.D. Battlizer, much to Sky's continued lament about not being the Red Ranger. Later, Sky travels to Gamma Orion and visits Mirloc, a criminal locked in a specially-made cell due to his ability to travel through reflective surfaces, to gather information. Thanks to Sky, the Rangers confront the real culprit: Slate, a copycat criminal whose powers allow him to mimic anyone. Morgana joins Slate and infuses him with a special formula that transforms him, in a divide-and-conquer-like transformation, into all of his impersonations of the criminals the Rangers successfully defeated so far, and Jack calls for his new Battlizer to defeat Slate's mutation into a criminal split in a team of impersonations. In exchange for the info Sky received, Mirloc wants to know what Sky's saddest memory is, and Sky tells the story of his father, who was the Red Ranger years ago, and was slain in battle. Mirloc mocks Sky's story, and the upset Sky sheds a tear. Mirloc takes this opportunity to travel into Sky's tear and escape his cell, leaving Sky stunned as he realizes what has happened.

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Mirloc meets Gruumm and is sent out to capture six of the Rangers, while Gruumm plans to deal with Cruger. Mirloc succeeds in imprisoning four Rangers, and Jack borrows Sam's OmegaMax Cycle to deal with a giant rampaging robot. Once Jack is captured, Sam takes on Mirloc alone and manages to free the captured Rangers. Mirloc taunts Sky and his father, and an angry Jack gives Sky the chance to bring Mirloc in with his Red Ranger morpher. Sky morphs into the Red Ranger and uses the Battlizer to defeat Mirloc in honor of his father.

The Rangers are constantly fighting with each other, hindering their team efforts when an S.O.S. message warning Cruger and Kat of a horrible upcoming threat puts them on edge and Kat in a rush to finish some updates. However, Kat accidentally destroys her quantum enhancer in her haste, and Z goes to Piggy to get a new one. What they don't know is Gruumm has put a time limit on Piggy to stop S.P.D., and he takes the chance to give them a new one with a virus inside that Thresher and Stench, Piggy's acquaintances/customers, use to get into S.P.D. files. With Thresher causing a distraction, Stench can download the schematics for the Rangers new S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons And Tactics) mode. When the Rangers constant bickering causes the criminals to get away, Commander Cruger sends the B-Squad to Planet Zentor where they are trained under the watchful eye of Sergeant Silverback. The irate Sergeant and his bulldog-modlede R.I.C. quickly put the Rangers through their paces, pitting them against reprogramed Krybots and a giant scorpion monster.

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After disappointing Silverback by not already being ready to fight the monster, the Rangers are stripped of their Ranger powers and demoted to D-Squad. Back on Earth, Kat feels sorry for herself for letting the S.W.A.T. mode technology fall into Thresher and Stench's hands. The Rangers are forced to endure grueling training exercises, only to be pushed even harder when they complain. The Sergeant ultimately gets fed up with the Rangers and considers sending them back to Earth with a recommendation for dismissal from the Academy. But when the Rangers ask for a second chance, he puts them through another test where he will have them expelled if they fail. They're able to work hard to prove themselves as a team worthy of being rewarded with the S.W.A.T Mode. Just in time, too, since Sam and Cruger, in an attempt to take on Thresher and Stench, have been captured. They return to earth to use their upgrade to defeat Thresher and Stench before containing them.

The Rangers are bombarded with constant attacks from both Gruumm and Broodwing, who recruits Gineka's group to destroy the Rangers, and are on the verge of breaking. Meanwhile, after beating robots piloted by Morgana's creations, the Rangers return to base where Bridge reveals he had been dream-fighting three other robots. Before getting laughed out of the base, Kat tells everyone robots with the same description Bridge gave had attacked a place off-world. Before it could be looked into further, the Rangers are called again to fight another robot. It's revealed that Broodwing and his companions were responsible for the attack when Bridge has another dream about the future. He goes to fight Broodwing's friends alone. When the DeltaMax Megazord is not enough to drive back these powerful enemies, Kat sends the Rangers the S.W.A.T. Flyers to form a new S.W.A.T. Megazord to deal with the fleet of robots.

Supreme Commander Fowler Birdie offers Kat the chance to work at S.P.D Galaxy Command and the Rangers, not wanting her to leave but wanting her to take the opportunity, try convincing her she isn't needed. During a battle, it's revealed that a monster has gotten all the data on the Rangers' equipment at the fight. After some careful thought, she decides to take up her new position. Boom quickly runs into problems with Kat gone and the Zords aren't running smoothly anymore. However, Broodwing teams up with Kat's old schoolmate Mooney and his mighty robot hides a dangerous weapon: a Helios Generator. After telling Birdie the danger of the Helios Generator, he gives her permission to return to Earth with a specially made 1-hour-lasting Kat Morpher. She tries talking to Mooney, but with the interference from Broodwing, she must morph into Kat Ranger to stop him before it's too late to stop the Helios Generator.

Bridge confronts intergalactic felon Berok on the Rangers' latest mission, only to be knocked out in battle and captured. He awakens in a cold dark room from which there appears to be no escape. With the walls closing in on Bridge, the Rangers must save their teammate from certain death before it's too late.

With help from his associate Professor Cerebros, Broodwing uses the Red, Blue, and Yellow Dino Gems to transport Conner, Ethan, and Kira to 2025 as part of his plan to defeat the Rangers and destroy the planet. The three confused Dino Rangers escape with their Gems and are soon cornered by Krybots, only to be saved by the B-Squad and taken back to the Delta Base. Although Doggie insists they remain at the base to avoid disrupting the timeline, the Dino Thunder Rangers decide to do what they feel is right, teaming up with the B-Squad to drive back a robotic army and the Dragoul creature.

Guest Stars: James Napier, Kevin Duhaney, and Emma Lahana.

Professor Cerebros alters the course of a meteor to cause it to collide with New Tech City. As if that weren't enough, a more powerful Dragoul has been let loose. The Rangers discover that Professor Cerebros is actually Kraw in disguise as the Rangers detain him. Although Sky is sent on a solo mission to destroy the meteor, Jack stows away on the S.W.A.T Megazord to try to get in on the action. While the Red and Blue Rangers learn to work together to destroy the meteor, the others are left to deal with Dragoul.

Icthior, Commander Cruger's rival from his days at the S.P.D. Academy, returns and puts the Rangers to the test as they are injured and stripped of their badges, leaving Doggie to face him alone. Before Ichthior is detained, he tells Cruger that Isinia is still alive.

After eavesdropping on Doggie and Kat talking about how the A-Squad would have already defeated Gruumm, the depressed B-Squad stay up late to reminisce over their past failures and successes, during which they deduce Gruumm's master plan in the process. Meanwhile, after Gruumm has given her back her childhood, Mora faces the Terror Spacecraft's secret tenant: Omni.

Gruumm decides to take drastic measures to stop the Rangers by traveling through a wormhole 21 years into the past where S.P.D. doesn't exist. Upon realizing what Gruumm has done, the B-Squad pursues him to the year 2004 and meets up with the Dino Thunder Rangers again. Meanwhile, Gruumm forces Zeltrax to join his army and ultimately faces the combined might of twelve Rangers who are determined to save the past, present, and future.

Guest Stars: James Napier, Kevin Duhaney, Emma Lahana, and Jeffery Parazzo.

Note: This episode aired in Canada on July 30, 2005 (2005-07-30), before the United States' broadcast. This episode was released on DVD on December 6, 2005 (2005-12-06) in the United States before its broadcast.

Jack meets a girl named Ally Samuels, who shares his passion for helping the needy. Unfortunately, Jack's new relationship interferes with his Ranger duties as he is late to help his friends defeat Broodwing's latest ally, Delex. After the battle, Cruger confronts Jack, who insists that nobody's perfect and he deserves a personal life. Meanwhile, Kat picks up a distress signal, and Cruger sends the Rangers to Gamma Orion, where they find a crashed spaceship and the A-Squad team while detaining the alien that was guarding them. After Cruger unceremoniously sends the B-Squad away when the mission is over, the A-Squad reveals their true colors and to Cruger.

The traitorous A-Squad capture Commander Cruger and call out the B-Squad, who meet their counterparts for an intense battle. Meanwhile, Broodwing makes his final push for domination and gathers an army to attack the Delta Base while the Rangers are away. The B-Squad fights the A-Squad, losing the Delta Squad Megazord in the process. However, thanks to S.W.A.T Mode and the S.W.A.T. Megazord, B-Squad wins and captures the traitorous A-Squad. Then, the Rangers break into the Delta Base and contain Broodwing and his allies. Unfortunately, they still have to deal with Gruumm, who catches them with help from Piggy.

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The Rangers are freed from Gruumm's ship by the redeemed Piggy, but Doggie stays behind to rescue his wife Isinia, who he has learned is alive on Gruumm's ship. Doggie captures Mora and defeats Gruumm, apparently destroying him, and rescues Isinia. Still, Omni becomes The Magnificence, a giant biomechanical monster that battles the S.W.A.T. Megazord, which is no match for it. Simultaneously, a Troobian army attack S.P.D. and the cadets, as Piggy, Sam, Boom, and Kat defend it to no avail until reinforcements in the form of the Nova Ranger from the future, as well as troops from S.P.D. Command arrive (including Sergeant Silverback and Commander Birdie) and defeat the enemy. Kat finds a weakness in Omni, which the Rangers exploit with Cruger's help. Omni is destroyed, and Cruger and Isinia miraculously survive. Gruumm's alive as well, but Cruger easily defeats and captures him. Following this victory, Jack leaves S.P.D., and Sky is promoted to Red Ranger while Bridge is promoted to Blue. Sam and Nova return to the future, and the Rangers visit Jack, but must soon leave to defend the world again.