Opened US 1997
The evil, capricious and corseted space pirate DIVATOX wishes to wed the demon MALIGOR, but needs the Golden Key held by the alien wizard LARIGOT to penetrate the Nemesis Triangle and reach the Lost Island of Murantheus where he is imprisoned, but Larigot escapes to Africa, on Earth. With her submarine and lieutenants ELGAR and the other weird blue guy, she teleports after him.
Over in the B-plot, KAT (the Pink Ranger) is chaperoning a busload of kids (including JUSTIN) from the Little Angels Heaven youth shelter to see the practice rounds of a charity martial arts competition. If competitors TOMMY and ROCKY (undercover White and Blue Rangers) win, $25,000 goes to the shelter; but the overenthusiastic teen jumps right out of the ring, injuring his neck. Later, Justin sneaks into the comatose Rocky's private hospital room, but hides under the bed when his four teammates arrive.
ALPHA detects Larigot's arrival and calls in the Rangers; Justin watches as they teleport out, realizing who they really are. ZORDON dispatches Tommy and Kat to retrieve the wizard, for he cannot withstand the intensity of Earth's sun for long. Meanwhile, Divatox's minions capture two humans, pure of spirit, to sacrifice to Maligor. She's none-too-pleased with their choice (comedy-relief police officers BULKMEIER and SKULAVITCH) but fortunately alternate candidates are scuba-diving nearby; to wit, the former Rangers SCOTT (red) and KIMBERLY (pink).
Divatox still needs Larigot and the Golden Wand, but she has four bargaining chips: Scott, Kim, and Larigot's WIFE and infant SON. She promises an exchange, but reneges on the deal.
Their current fleet of Zeozords are apparently insufficient for the coming trials, so the Rangers take a few minutes to create some new "Turbomorphers" and "Turbozords" that use "turbotechnology" and combine to form the most powerful Zord ever, the "Turbomegazord." ADAM gets green Desert Thunder, Kat white Wind Chaser, TANIA yellow Dune Star, and Tommy Red Lightning. The blue Mountain Blaster remains stabled while Rocky is sidelined. But not for long, because Zordon quickly appoints Justin to the position. The preteen is just tickled pink (err, blue) by the cool toys.
Zordon dispatches them across the Great Desert to ride the Ghost Galleon across the sea to the Nemesis Triangle. Both their Zords and the ship are undetectable, but they're perfectly visible, and Divatox releases four monsters to delay them. They all reach Murantheus, and board their Zords just before her torpedoes sink the galleon. Meanwhile, Kim and Tommy have forced a hatch (helped not at all by their brain-scrambled gibberish- spouting fellow bilge-mates Bulk and Skull) and three prisoners swim free, but Tommy's blocked by an emergency hatch. Then the Rangers meet the natives. Kim is recaptured. Divatox begins the ceremony to awaken Maligor, the Rangers morph into their new costumes and fight through the foot soldiers, but fail to prevent Kim and Tommy from being transmogrified to evil. Then bad former Rangers beat up the good current Rangers, then get talked out of their mood-swing. Then Maligor arises and he doesn't seem interested in marrying Divatox. Everyone runs outside. Maligor gets big, the Rangers combine into the Turbomegazord, much stomping over tropical vegetation ensues, and Maligor goes BOOM. Divatox runs away.
In B-plot land, the white-suited good guys defeat their black-suited opponents in the tournament. The shelter gets the money. Everyone lives happily ever after. The end. Ho hum.