Weekly Discussion Post: Fate of the Zeo Crystal

[pockythoughts]

Hey everybody, it's Tuesday night! Time for the weekly discussion post!

This week's topic, as suggested by khandreia : Whatever happened to the Zeo Crystal?

We all know the behind-the-scenes reasons for shifting into Turbo, but no in-universe explanation was ever given. The Zeonizers weren't destroyed onscreen; we see them used in T:APRM and in later seasons

Comments

[rivulet027]

Didn't we find part of it at the museum?

[akino_ame]

The only thing I can think of is that when Kat morphed and hit the water in the movie, she shorted out her Zeonizer. Zordon was already working on the Turbo powers because the Rangers would need the keys to pass through dimensions. When Kat shorted out her morpher, it meant they were down a power as well as a Ranger (Rocky), so they might as well take the completed set and put fixing her Zeonizer on the back burner until the threat of Divatox's wedding was no longer an issue.

As for why they don't use them after--chaos between senior year and choosing new Rangers, more chaos with the Power Chamber being destroyed, and if they'd left their morphers behind, it would make it hard for Adam to use the Zeonizer in "Always a Chance." As for why Tommy uses his Zeonizer in "Forever Red" but Adam doesn't use his in "Once a Ranger," I'm going to assume personal preference: Tommy wanted to be cool in Red and Adam thought Black was cooler than Green.

[khandreia]

I suppose since I suggested this, I should chime in, shouldn't I