Power Rangers is the distant past of Star Trek

The only thing with this theory is you have to discount every series after Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue especially SPD and Time Force. Thoguh they can be explained by alternate timelines, Q, etc...

The precursor to Section 31 was the Nasada Program. Who had secret access to information and tech that the normal citizens didn't have. Hence the knowledge of Zordon and the shuttle being able to connect with the Koviarian Astro Megaship and form a Megazord.

After first contact with the citizens of KO-35 at the end of the Countdown to Destruction disaster human technological development increased rapidly. To the point that the faster-than-light human space colony Terra Venture was built by 1999!

Communication and transportation to the new human colony was established not long after then and within the next year a government funded zord/ranger program was completed and put into use to defend a single town. Though many questioned the necessity of this program it was proven to be necessary to combat the constant demon attacks. All seemed to be well, at least in America.

Outside of America though all was not well. The aliens for some reason had focused all their attention on helping the humans in Angel Grove and nearby towns in California. Leaving a vast technology gap that made at least one other country's government fear them. "If they have the power for something like Lightspeed Rescue who is to say they won't use it against us!" Out of fear of the combat ability of the zords somebody launched a nuke!

Though the many brave rangers tried to fight in World War III and bring the countries to peace once more political talks fell through and soon the war went full scale! Nearly destroying the planet and leaving Terra Venture without a home planet to leave too should anyone decide they don't like living in the Jungle planet.

The devastation was so immense that all the rangers were wiped out and the aliens left. For an unknown reason the humans viewed trusting the aliens as a disastrous embarrassment instead of an inner power struggle gone wrong. To the end they white washed their own history in an attempt to erase these facts, and instead claimed the nuclear war to be a result of the long since ended conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States known as the Cold War, (Hence the Star Trek idea that the Union existed long past when it actually did).

The next few centuries went the same way Star Trek said it did, with the occasional reverse engineering from human and ranger tech long since lost to the war, (the transporter was a primitive teleportation device, lasers are a common fixture of nearly every ranger team) though they never rediscovered Zords or morphing technology. Only the renamed Nasada Section 31 had all the knowledge. Hence Vulcans incorrect knowledge of the human's history.

What of KO-35 and magic you ask? KO-35 has since moved their space colonies to somewhere out of the galaxy to get away from a race that will likely destroy themselves in their stupidity and don't even have intergalactic travel,(they have become racist after the events that wiped humans out). and magic is still a fact in this Universe, all over the galaxy. Hence Q, the Traveler, and other entries that our crew doesn't even attempt to techno-babble away.

edited 30th Mar '13 5:40:56 PM by Wildcard

What about the machine empire...they would be the ones behind the devil machine?

Doubt it. Almost their entire army was killed in the Countdown disaster. Even if they had weapons out in space I'd figure that was more of a space-pirates doing.