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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Determinator}} A Ranger never gives up.]]'']]





* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Y3BO-GxrI Mike becoming the Magna Defender.]]
** "It's time to finish what we started. You will carry on the work we began. My weapon is now yours. You will be the Magna Defender. It is your destiny!"
** The build up is fantastic with the music and then he throws the sword up as we get a guitar chord of the show theme. Followed by an epic transformation, him combining with Torozord and defeating the monster, simultaneously freeing the Rangers from their imprisonment in another dimension.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaoGQsM04V8 The Rangers being chosen to wield the Lights of Orion by the lights themselves]] -- to recap, the Lights of Orion are an ancient, incredible power, and both the villains (with that episode's MonsterOfTheWeek, Destruxo, briefly getting his hands on them) and the Magna Defender were seeking to use the Lights for their own ends; the Rangers, on the other hand, don't even know what the Lights are really, all they know is they want to stop the villains from getting them, and the Magna Defender (who they realize has gone overboard in his grief and quest for vengeance). They prepare to destroy the Lights with their Quasar Launchers to that end, when the Lights pulse and subsequently float down to them -- the Rangers realize the Lights ''[[OnlyTheChosenMayWield have chosen them]]''. They all reach up towards the glowing orb...and [[MidSeasonUpgrade are subsequently covered in new armor and enhanced weaponry]]! When the Magna Defender wants the Rangers to give the Lights to him, Leo declares "Never!", beginning the ThemeMusicPowerUp. Never before or after was it so perfectly timed, as they ''turn into a fireball and run right through Destruxo'' right in time with "TURN ON THE POWER! POWER RANGERS!" The Rangers promptly turn around, and as the theme song ends, Destruxo keels over and explodes. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Bad. Ass.]]
* There's a filler episode called "The Chameliac Warrior" that had the Rangers fight against the titular monster. This monster is capable of copying the rangers weapons, attacks, and fighting style, and trumped the rangers in their first fight. Next fight however, the Rangers decide to switch up their attacks (e.g. Chamiliac Warrior would copy the Red Ranger's fighting style, but the Red Ranger uses the Green Rangers fighting style instead) to confuse him.
** Then comes the Megazord fight where Leo calls in the Stratoforce Megazord. Chameliac naturally copies Stratoforce's weapon, but then Stratoforce reveals he brought Centaurus Megazord's cannon instead!
* "To The Tenth Power". The first ever full team reunion episode where Deviot gets his hands on the PsychoRangers from the last season. There's just some great work in the buildup of how strong the psychos are for new fans, and the battle where the teams work together are just awesome to watch.
** The moment when the In Space team shows up. At first only Andros appears, teaming up with Leo to save him from Psycho Red. Then in the climactic fight [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pn_qr33os0 the other Space Rangers show up]]. It doesn't even matter that how they caught up with Terra Venture isn't explained, or that Zhane is a no-show. It's just that awesome. Plus, the moment when they morph, the theme for ''In Space'' plays, and effortlessly segues into ''Lost Galaxy'''s, adding a true ThemeMusicPowerUp. Sadly, from one form of awesome to another, and this one so very bittersweet...
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Power_Rangers#Kendrix_Morgan The Power of Pink]]. In a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, Saban saw the positive response to the end of ''In Space'' and decided to reuse it. In the most heartbreaking way possible.
** To elaborate, Psycho Pink, the only Psycho Ranger left after the others were destroyed in the previous episode, set up an attack on Terra Venture that would destroy the colony, using a {{MacGuffin}} stabbed into Cassie's Astro Morpher as the power source. Kendrix, the only other Ranger around (as the others were in their Zords), walks through several energy barriers, getting buffeted and tossed around by the overwhelming power, and destroys the weapon, saving Cassie and the entire Terra Venture colony... but getting vaporized in the ensuing explosion, marking the first time in the franchise a Ranger actually died in the line of duty[[note]]at least on-screen-- [[WordOfSaintPaul Christopher Khaymen Lee]] believes that Andros' previous team was killed sometime prior to the events of ''In Space''. And then there's the Phantom Ranger, who, per Judd Lynn, was apparently intended to be the spirits of past Rangers who fell in battle given a corporeal form[[/note]]. Her spirit then comforts her grieving friends before departing. [[ManlyTears I'm not crying, you are!]]
** Before that, Psycho Pink, having freed herself from her RestrainingBolt, fires a blast at Trakeena and Villamax effortlessly blocks with his sword.
** While that's happening, the two Ranger teams unite in their Megazords to fight Psycho Pink in ''American exclusive footage'', an extreme rarity in ''Power Rangers''.
** For the record, this episode makes Psycho Pink, the first Psycho Ranger to die last season, the only one on her team to actually kill a ranger, even if it was indirectly.
* Karone's reintroduction episode. Dressing up as Astronema and using her infamy to stop the auction of and walk out of the BadGuyBar with the Pink Quasar Saber (which the Rangers had lost after the above spoiler) and creaming everyone in a BarBrawl when Trakeena exposed her, is just the tip of the iceberg. It was so awesome that the FridgeLogic (of which includes how did Karone get to Onyx from KO-35 among other questions) didn't set in until the HumongousMecha fight started and the plot stopped. It's a lucky thing that it and the subsequent episode were such great moments for her character, as, combined with the episodes needed to write around [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Valerie Vernon's illness]], there simply was not enough time to really develop her character before the final StoryArc and [[GrandFinale finale]]. Nonetheless, this is the only time the primary BigBad from the previous season becomes a Ranger in the next.
** Her introduction is great as she makes a perfect bid to assembled hordes: She gets the Saber and they all get to leave with their lives. Her reputation is so great, they just back up and let her have the Saber and she might have gotten away clean if Trakeena hadn't shown up.
* The Guardian of the Galaxy Book gets one when he arrives and scares the crap out of Deviot just by ''being there''. He soon shows why when he beats the crap out of him easily until his inability to survive in Terra Venture's atmosphere catches up to him.
* Leo saved the entire season with one pivotal come-from-behind-victory. The key to his success? [[ShirtlessScene Ripping his shirt off]].
* Speaking of Leo, in the finale, he was having a bit of trouble finishing off Trakeena for good. His solution? Hold her still and fire his battlizer. At full power. From point-blank range. Even though he knows the explosion could take him out as well.
** And then, after emerging from the rubble with his visor cracked, he flashes a weary thumbs up.
* The last three episodes are filled with Trakeena [=CMOAs=]. (Yes, baddies get 'em too.) Suicide. Bomber. {{Mooks}}. And that's just one thing.
** Villamax cementing his NobleDemon status by refusing to fire on innocent civilians and confronting the newly unhinged Trekeena. Sadly, it was his exit scene, but he did buy the civilians time to escape.
** Of course, one of Trakeena's best moments was when Deviot pulled a [[TheStarscream Starscream]] on her for the first time. See, last Deviot had seen her, she'd just been Scorpius' bratty daughter, but was since trained by Villamax and TookALevelInBadass. So Deviot sends two assassins to do her in while she's fighting Leo (aforementioned ShirtlessScene)... and she ''owns them.'' After killing one of them, she pins the other against a rock with her leg (against its chest or neck, while standing on ground with other foot) and calmly demands to know who put her up to it.
*** ...and then Deviot kills him, pretending to be trying to save her from the attack, before he can talk. Sometimes, his sneakiness could be awesome, too.
** Speaking of Trakeena, Deviot and the finale, there's how it begins: After his brief dalliance with the suddenly very dead Captain Mutiny, ol' Deviot comes crawling back to try and weasel his way back onto Trakeena's ship. She refuses to listen and just has Villamax kick the ever-loving crap out of him. After a whole season of manipulation, it's just so ''good'' to see Deviot get what's coming to him.
* One of the final moments of the series is one of the most epic, jaw-droppingly awesome moments in the history of the franchise. ''Terra Venture'' crashes onto the moon of Mirinoi, and the passengers and crew successfully evacuate to the planet below. But they're still in danger - Trakeena, using her new-found power, raises the city dome and throws it at the planet below. The Rangers arrive on board the falling city dome, fight and defeat Trakeena. But it's too late - the dome has made it through the atmosphere and is falling straight towards the colonists. From the size and speed of the city dome, the impact will kill everybody there and likely wipe out half the planet, and even the Rangers are panic-stricken and helpless. Leo even says "At this speed, we'll destroy the colony.... and ourselves." From out of nowhere, ''the Galaxy Megazord flies up to meet the city dome, grabs hold of it, slows the dome down and steers it away from the colonists and into an abandoned valley'', giving the Rangers time to escape into the Megazord before the dome crashes. In terms of a power-feat from the Galaxy Megazord, it's ''astronomical''. In terms of sheer epic awesomeness? Mind-blowing.
* As far as Rangers fighting with their chief villain go, the last few episodes rank pretty high up there. Trakeena just throws out the MonsterOfTheWeek play book after absorbing Deviot into her and throws everything she's got at Terra Venture and the Rangers (one might wonder why she didn't just fire at the very visible engines long ago). Just the first episode in the finale alone has the tiny Rangers running from her huge Scorpion Stinger, and Terra Venture being irreparably ruined. The second episode she sends her entire mook army and has them swarm the accessory zords (save the original in the moment above) in suicide vests. Even TheDragon is alarmed by her recklessness. So she completes her VillainousBreakdown by killing him, too.
* Turning a nature-themed Sentai into a space-themed one on top of the behind the scenes ''disasters'' and still coming out with a damn impressive final product makes this series one for the production team. Even fans who aren't fond of the season will still applaud them for making it just ''work''.
** Special mention goes to the episode "The Rescue Mission," which was essentially "Film/{{Alien}} in 22 minutes on a Saturday morning kids show," involving very little morphed footage and no footage from the Sentai. And it is one of the best episodes of the entire franchise.
*** Oh, speaking of no footage of Sentai bit. It is the first Power Rangers episode ''ever'' to have absolutely no Sentai footage (not even StockFootage) incorporated in the episode, and '''the only one''' until the first episode of [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Dino Charge]], aired more than ''fifteen years'' after "The Rescue Mission".
** Another special mention to "Hexuba's Graveyard" which had a large amount of original fight footage; how large? In the corresponding Sentai episode, the Gingamen didn't actually ''defeat'' any of the revived monsters.
* General Treacheron confronting Trakeena for framing him for treason. He’s imposing enough during the scene to leave her frightened, angrily says he’s never been anything but loyal, and declares “I eat stingwingers for breakfast” when Trakeena sics her insectoid troops on him.