Continuing their journey, Terra Venture receives a distress call from a ship slightly out of their way. While the council would normally pass this by as nonessential, Mike manages to convince them that carrying out this mission would set a good precedent for getting their own rescue in the future. So, the head of the council has Mike assemble a search team to get to the ship and look for survivors. Mike picks Leo to come along, and they head out.
Little did anyone suspect that the ship would be full of surprises both good, and VERY, VERY bad.
Tropes
- Call-Back: When the monster gets a hand of Mike as they're escaping, Mike calls for Leo to let go so they can escape. Leo's Response?
- Leo: Not This Time!
- Distress Call: An elite crew led by Mike and Leo investigate one.
- Ghost Ship: an abandoned space ship, with a monster on board.
- Obligatory Earpiece Touch: The rescue team does the gesture when talking to Mission Control.
- Out-of-Genre Experience: This episode is very atypical for a Power Rangers series; there are no Zords, Sentai footage or the main villains, most of the fight scenes are unmorphed, and overall the whole episode feels more like something out of a gritty science fiction series than a children's superhero show. The alien the team encounters also looks nothing like the regular style of the series, being more in line with director Steve Wang's previous efforts with the Guyver movies, and lacking the ability to vocalize in anything other than grunts and roars.
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Just look at the star map scene...
- Whole-Plot Reference: The basis of the episode is taken straight from Alien.
