Katie/Trip (Power Rangers Time Force)
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ship_manifestoTitle: Our Infinite Tomorrow
Author: Mariko Azrael
Fandom: Power Rangers Time Force
Pairing: Katie Walker (Time Force Yellow Ranger)/Trip Regis (Time Force Green Ranger)
Disclaimer: Not mine
Warning: Spoilers for the series, the crossover with Power Rangers Wild Force, and a very small one for the mega-crossover 'Forever Red'. Character pictures are from Ranger Gallery.
Forging a new age
Power Rangers Time Force was the ninth season in the Power Rangers franchise, premiering February 3, 2001 and ending November 17, 2001. It had a run of forty episodes and used footage from Super Sentai’s twenty-fourth incarnation, Mirai Sentai Timeranger (Future Task Force Timeranger). As you may have guessed, a recurring theme in the series was time travel.
In the year 3000, thanks to the efforts of Time Force, Earth has become a paradise. Only one criminal remains-- Ransik. Time Force’s Red Ranger Alex battles and defeats him, along with discovering his plan to flee into the past and rule there. Ransik is brought for trial and sentenced to be frozen cryogenically, escorted to the prison by Alex’s fiancée Jen and her teammates: Lucas, Katie, and Trip. Unfortunately, Ransik escapes thanks to the help of his daughter Nadira. They go to the cyro-prison to steal the time machine there, leaving the four officers to try and get him back before it’s too late. Before he can escape into the past, Alex fights Ransik again, but isn’t as lucky as before and is ‘killed’ by Ransik. Alex begs them to stop Ransik. He and Nadira, their seemingly loyal robot servant Frax, and several cryogenically frozen criminal mutants flee into the past. The officers take Alex's Chrono Morpher (the device that gave Alex his power) along with four others and chase after Ransik.
Their chase leads them to the year 2001 and a city called Silver Hills. The team later discovers that the only way to get the Morphers to work is if Alex or someone with DNA similar to his unlocks them. They find what they’re looking for in the son of a wealthy businessman named Wes Collins, who becomes the new Time Force Red Ranger.
Wes’s father isn’t happy with him striking out on his own. He forms the Silver Guardians, a task force to protect the city from mutant attacks-- provided you can pay them. One of the new recruits turns out to be Wes’s old friend Eric Meyers. When the Silver Guardians are charged with protecting a recently discovered archaeological artifact called the Quantum controller, ambitious Eric steals it and becomes the Quantum Ranger-- along with being a Power Ranger on the Silver Guardians’ payroll. His relationship with the Rangers would alternate between that of eager rival and reluctant ally.
It is later revealed that Alex survived his injuries and has been secretly helping the Rangers since. He even comes back in time to reclaim his Morpher and stop Frax (who had at this point betrayed Ransik). However, it becomes very clear as the mission went on that the team was stronger with Wes as the Red Ranger and Alex returned the Morpher before returning to the year 3000, leaving Jen to realize that she’s beginning to care more for Wes than Alex.
The Rangers capture every mutant Ransik sends, until he and his daughter are left to fend for themselves. But after helping deliver a baby, Nadira begins to question her father’s hatred of humanity, to the point where she flees with an abandoned baby, and winds up getting nearly killed by Ransik in the crossfire of a battle. Seeing how close he came to killing his child is what makes Ransik turns himself in. The four time travelers return to their present... but not before Jen and Wes finally admit their feelings. Wes accepts an offer from his father (who he’s reconciled with) to lead the now non-profit Silver Guardians with Eric.
The four Time Force officers, along with a reformed Ransik and Nadira, re-unite with Wes and Eric in the Power Rangers Wild Force two-parter ‘Reinforcements from the Future’. The last time we see the six of them together is after the battles, relaxing at a picnic with the Wild Force Rangers. Wes and Eric would return in the mega crossover ‘Forever Red’.
Power Rangers Time Force was considerably darker than other seasons of Power Rangers. It was also unique at the time for sticking closely with its predecessor Timeranger in both plot and character. Taking control of your own destiny was a major theme (along with betrayal, loss, love, and a lot of other things you’re more likely to find in high tragedy than in a kids’ show); the characters were all adults who had to earn a living. Time Force is still considered to be one of the better incarnations by the fans.
Uniquely Trip
Trip is fairly different from his teammates. For starters, he isn’t human.
His home planet is Xybria; the telltale signs of being native of said planet being his bright green hair and the gem in the middle of his forehead. As he explained to Wes in ‘Something to Fight For’, his gem is what gives him his psychic powers. Trip can read minds and on occasion see into the future. However, he can’t always control his abilities and if the gem is covered, he can’t use them at all.
Since growing up surrounded by telepaths makes lying more or less impossible, Trip is very trusting of other people. This proved to be a problem in the episode ‘Short-Circuited’, when Ransik’s daughter Nadira convinced him she wanted to break away from her father. He also has a bit of a self-esteem problem, but after saving the teams thanks to his invention the Electro Booster realized his skills are important to the team.
Along with the Electro Booster, it was never stated outright on the series but was hinted heavily that he built Circuit, the Rangers’ robotic owl companion that contacts the future to send them their zords. Trip also possesses a strong sense of justice: in the episode ‘Trip takes a Stand’ he protected a mutant named Notacon whose only crime had been petty theft from being killed by the Quantum Ranger Eric Meyers.
After Ransik was arrested, Trip returned to the year 3000 and remained in contact with Wes and Eric. He came to 2002 along with Katie, Lucas, and also Ransik and Nadira to help the Wild Force Power Rangers stop the Mut-Orgs. The last time we see him is at the celebratory picnic after they stop the menace to the planet watching Katie beat the Iron Bison Ranger Danny Delgado at arm wrestling, telling her cheerfully to ‘just beat him already’.
Pretty in Yellow: Katie
Katie is a study in contradictions. Thanks to her super strength (the origins of which is never explained onscreen but is assumed by fans to be a fluke in her genetically enhanced DNA, and following that logic might mean she’s a mutant herself) she’s somebody you definitely want on your side in a fight, but you might want to avoid her after you win-- unless you want to be caught in one of her bone-crushing hugs. Katie is very warm, protective of Trip and becomes good friends with Wes over the course of the series.
Katie is close to her family. The photo she keeps shows her with her father, mother, and brother. Being separated from them isn’t easy on her, and when Circuit revealed that their actions in 2001 might have an affect on the future (and she might not have a family to go back to), she refused to fight anymore. A talk with Wes helped her to see that there would be no future at all if she didn’t fight, and she came to see her teammates as her family.
After she returned to the year 3000 and presumably her family, Katie and Lucas asked Nadira-- who Katie seemed to have befriended since their return for her and her father’s help to stop the Mut-Orgs rampaging in 2002. The last time we see her is when she effortlessly trounces poor Danny.
Past, Present, and Future
The first time we see either character is in the episode ‘Force from the Future pt I’, watching from the sidelines as Alex battles Ransik. After it becomes clear that Alex is safe and has stopped the mutant they share a hug. As Alex and Jen have an emotional reunion, Katie is so overjoyed to see them together again she grabs both Lucas and Trip in a headlock. Lucas manages to break free; Trip isn’t so lucky.
Ransik is sentenced to a lifetime of cryogenic containment and the four Time Force officers are ordered to escort him to the jail. Unfortunately, Ransik’s daughter Nadira attacks them and they escape together. Frustrated with the situation, Lucas grabs Trip and demands to know why he didn’t tell them Ransik would try to escape, since he could read his mind. Trip stutters out that it's not a skill he can use; it's just something that happens sometimes. Before it can escalate further, Katie pulls them apart and tells Lucas in no uncertain terms to leave him alone. Lucas knows better than to pick a fight with her and storms off; Katie offers Trip what comfort she can.
After Captain Logan fires them for losing Ransik, they start walking to who knows where. Katie stays with Trip as he lags behind. Suddenly, Trip sees Ransik and Nadira planning their escape into the past. When it’s over, he stumbles a step, but Katie catches him before he falls. He tells the others where Ransik is going.
At the jail, Ransik and Alex fight once more, only this time Ransik succeeds and ‘kills’ Alex in front of Jen and the others. Katie and Trip watch sadly as Jen says what she thought would be her farewell to the man she loves. Jen promises her fiancé they’ll stop Ransik and they take the Chrono Morphers Alex gave Jen right before he died, steal a Time Ship, and follow him into the past.
They wind up crashing in the year 2001. Circuit wakes Trip up, telling him the ship is about to explode. Trip gets everybody out before the ship goes up in flames; afterwards, Katie helps him up and thanks him.
The officers discover they can’t unlock their morphers unless they have a fifth member. However, it can only be used by Alex or someone with his DNA. When they find a match in the good-natured but spoiled Wes Collins, Katie and Trip are both thrilled to have a new member on their, and both are disappointed when Jen kicks him out. Luckily for everyone involved, Trip later snuck off to find Wes and convinced him to ask for another chance.
‘Short-Circuited’ and ‘Jen’s Revenge’ focused on Trip and Jen respectively, but it’s worth noting that Katie reassured Trip that he wasn’t at fault after trusting a scheming Nadira and Circuit getting kidnapped in the former, and in the latter after getting caught spying on Wes and Jen in the middle of a moment having the brilliant idea of teasing them by re-enacting said moment— and embellishing on it just a bit. Jen’s reaction is pretty much what you would expect.
‘Future Unknown’ is the first time Katie’s family is mentioned. Trip catches her gazing sadly at her photograph and comments that she must miss them a lot. Katie replies that knowing she’ll get to see them again once they catch Ransik is the one thing that keeps her going sometimes. So she understandably took Circuit’s news that their actions in 2001 are affecting the thirtieth century, visibly shaken. When the team goes to stop the mutant currently rampaging through the city Trip is the only one who can snap her out of it.
The fight doesn’t go well for the Rangers, and Katie finally has all she can stand. She tells the other she’ll fight, but only if they can promise her future, her family will remain unchanged. Desperate, she begs Trip to tell her the future will be the same, he tells her the truth: he can't.
The others decide they’ll fight, regardless of their futures. Before Trip goes, he tells Katie that it ‘feels like the right thing to do’ before morphing and leaving. Luckily, after some brief words with Wes Katie realizes she and her family won’t have a future at all if she doesn’t, and she helps her friends to re-arrest the mutant. As the team watches their zords fly back to the future, Trip wonders out loud if they'll ever return home. Katie tells him of course they will, and they share a tender moment.
And that, sadly, was probably the most focus we got on their relationship in the series. Unlike Wes and Jen or even Lucas and Nadira they never had an episode that explored their feeling for each other. What we did get were a bunch of little moments over the course of the series: in ‘Uniquely Trip’ after Trip went through a lot of self-doubt but saved the day anyways Katie has him come to the park and along with the other three Rangers surprises him by wearing a bright green wig, then grabbing him in a hug while making a kissy face. Katie holds him tight at the end of ‘Time Force Traitor’, and in a light-hearted moment in ‘Dawn of Destiny’ she and Wes tackle Trip to a couch (on a children’s show, no less). They smile together when Wes returns in ‘Destiny Defeated’; they go shopping with comic results in ‘Undercover Rangers’. The moments are brief, and never went into as much detail as I would’ve liked, but are satisfying nonetheless.
The last time we see them is in the Power Rangers Wild Force episode ‘Reinforcements from the Future part II’. After the Mut-Orgs have been defeated and Ransik has become a human being, both teams celebrate with a picnic. Katie easily bests Danny Delgado at arm wrestling, while Trip leans on her and cheerfully tells her to just beat him already.
My Tomorrow
So why do I like this pairing?
Well, for starters it’s refreshing. Most Ranger pairings (Tommy and Kim in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, Blake and Tori in Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Trent and Kira in Power Rangers Dino Thunder) tend to skirt around their feelings-- which makes sense, since most of them are teenagers. However, seeing characters not afraid to show their affection very often makes for a nice change. And if there’s one thing these two have an abundance of, it’s affection. It’s hard to find a scene where they’re not draped all over each other.
Although I think my reason for shipping them started way back in 2001. I was home sick and saw Power Rangers was on and figured I liked the show as a kid plus nothing better was on, so why not? The episode was ‘Trip Takes a Stand’ and there was something in the intensity Katie screamed out his name when between Notacon and Eric that made think they had something going on. A couple of years later I got back into Power Rangers thanks to Dino Thunder and Jetix re-running the older episodes and I got to see the rest of the series and all those wonderful moments they shared, and there was no looking back for me.
Fan Resources
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timeforce
Wikipedia's article of Power Rangers.
Wikipedia's article on Power Rangers Time Force.
Rangerwiki. Power Rangers wiki. Still a work in progress, but already very useful. It's where I got most of my character information.
Power Rangers Central. Information on all fourteen seasons.
Over the Borderline, by Estirose. Rated 8+
And because this pairing really is that hard to find... my Katie/Trip fan fics. All written for the LiveJournal community30_kisses.
Author: Mariko Azrael
Fandom: Power Rangers Time Force
Pairing: Katie Walker (Time Force Yellow Ranger)/Trip Regis (Time Force Green Ranger)
Disclaimer: Not mine
Warning: Spoilers for the series, the crossover with Power Rangers Wild Force, and a very small one for the mega-crossover 'Forever Red'. Character pictures are from Ranger Gallery.
Forging a new age
Power Rangers Time Force was the ninth season in the Power Rangers franchise, premiering February 3, 2001 and ending November 17, 2001. It had a run of forty episodes and used footage from Super Sentai’s twenty-fourth incarnation, Mirai Sentai Timeranger (Future Task Force Timeranger). As you may have guessed, a recurring theme in the series was time travel.
In the year 3000, thanks to the efforts of Time Force, Earth has become a paradise. Only one criminal remains-- Ransik. Time Force’s Red Ranger Alex battles and defeats him, along with discovering his plan to flee into the past and rule there. Ransik is brought for trial and sentenced to be frozen cryogenically, escorted to the prison by Alex’s fiancée Jen and her teammates: Lucas, Katie, and Trip. Unfortunately, Ransik escapes thanks to the help of his daughter Nadira. They go to the cyro-prison to steal the time machine there, leaving the four officers to try and get him back before it’s too late. Before he can escape into the past, Alex fights Ransik again, but isn’t as lucky as before and is ‘killed’ by Ransik. Alex begs them to stop Ransik. He and Nadira, their seemingly loyal robot servant Frax, and several cryogenically frozen criminal mutants flee into the past. The officers take Alex's Chrono Morpher (the device that gave Alex his power) along with four others and chase after Ransik.
Their chase leads them to the year 2001 and a city called Silver Hills. The team later discovers that the only way to get the Morphers to work is if Alex or someone with DNA similar to his unlocks them. They find what they’re looking for in the son of a wealthy businessman named Wes Collins, who becomes the new Time Force Red Ranger.
Wes’s father isn’t happy with him striking out on his own. He forms the Silver Guardians, a task force to protect the city from mutant attacks-- provided you can pay them. One of the new recruits turns out to be Wes’s old friend Eric Meyers. When the Silver Guardians are charged with protecting a recently discovered archaeological artifact called the Quantum controller, ambitious Eric steals it and becomes the Quantum Ranger-- along with being a Power Ranger on the Silver Guardians’ payroll. His relationship with the Rangers would alternate between that of eager rival and reluctant ally.
It is later revealed that Alex survived his injuries and has been secretly helping the Rangers since. He even comes back in time to reclaim his Morpher and stop Frax (who had at this point betrayed Ransik). However, it becomes very clear as the mission went on that the team was stronger with Wes as the Red Ranger and Alex returned the Morpher before returning to the year 3000, leaving Jen to realize that she’s beginning to care more for Wes than Alex.
The Rangers capture every mutant Ransik sends, until he and his daughter are left to fend for themselves. But after helping deliver a baby, Nadira begins to question her father’s hatred of humanity, to the point where she flees with an abandoned baby, and winds up getting nearly killed by Ransik in the crossfire of a battle. Seeing how close he came to killing his child is what makes Ransik turns himself in. The four time travelers return to their present... but not before Jen and Wes finally admit their feelings. Wes accepts an offer from his father (who he’s reconciled with) to lead the now non-profit Silver Guardians with Eric.
The four Time Force officers, along with a reformed Ransik and Nadira, re-unite with Wes and Eric in the Power Rangers Wild Force two-parter ‘Reinforcements from the Future’. The last time we see the six of them together is after the battles, relaxing at a picnic with the Wild Force Rangers. Wes and Eric would return in the mega crossover ‘Forever Red’.
Power Rangers Time Force was considerably darker than other seasons of Power Rangers. It was also unique at the time for sticking closely with its predecessor Timeranger in both plot and character. Taking control of your own destiny was a major theme (along with betrayal, loss, love, and a lot of other things you’re more likely to find in high tragedy than in a kids’ show); the characters were all adults who had to earn a living. Time Force is still considered to be one of the better incarnations by the fans.
Uniquely Trip
Trip is fairly different from his teammates. For starters, he isn’t human.
His home planet is Xybria; the telltale signs of being native of said planet being his bright green hair and the gem in the middle of his forehead. As he explained to Wes in ‘Something to Fight For’, his gem is what gives him his psychic powers. Trip can read minds and on occasion see into the future. However, he can’t always control his abilities and if the gem is covered, he can’t use them at all.
Since growing up surrounded by telepaths makes lying more or less impossible, Trip is very trusting of other people. This proved to be a problem in the episode ‘Short-Circuited’, when Ransik’s daughter Nadira convinced him she wanted to break away from her father. He also has a bit of a self-esteem problem, but after saving the teams thanks to his invention the Electro Booster realized his skills are important to the team.
Along with the Electro Booster, it was never stated outright on the series but was hinted heavily that he built Circuit, the Rangers’ robotic owl companion that contacts the future to send them their zords. Trip also possesses a strong sense of justice: in the episode ‘Trip takes a Stand’ he protected a mutant named Notacon whose only crime had been petty theft from being killed by the Quantum Ranger Eric Meyers.
After Ransik was arrested, Trip returned to the year 3000 and remained in contact with Wes and Eric. He came to 2002 along with Katie, Lucas, and also Ransik and Nadira to help the Wild Force Power Rangers stop the Mut-Orgs. The last time we see him is at the celebratory picnic after they stop the menace to the planet watching Katie beat the Iron Bison Ranger Danny Delgado at arm wrestling, telling her cheerfully to ‘just beat him already’.
Pretty in Yellow: Katie
Katie is a study in contradictions. Thanks to her super strength (the origins of which is never explained onscreen but is assumed by fans to be a fluke in her genetically enhanced DNA, and following that logic might mean she’s a mutant herself) she’s somebody you definitely want on your side in a fight, but you might want to avoid her after you win-- unless you want to be caught in one of her bone-crushing hugs. Katie is very warm, protective of Trip and becomes good friends with Wes over the course of the series.
Katie is close to her family. The photo she keeps shows her with her father, mother, and brother. Being separated from them isn’t easy on her, and when Circuit revealed that their actions in 2001 might have an affect on the future (and she might not have a family to go back to), she refused to fight anymore. A talk with Wes helped her to see that there would be no future at all if she didn’t fight, and she came to see her teammates as her family.
After she returned to the year 3000 and presumably her family, Katie and Lucas asked Nadira-- who Katie seemed to have befriended since their return for her and her father’s help to stop the Mut-Orgs rampaging in 2002. The last time we see her is when she effortlessly trounces poor Danny.
Past, Present, and Future
The first time we see either character is in the episode ‘Force from the Future pt I’, watching from the sidelines as Alex battles Ransik. After it becomes clear that Alex is safe and has stopped the mutant they share a hug. As Alex and Jen have an emotional reunion, Katie is so overjoyed to see them together again she grabs both Lucas and Trip in a headlock. Lucas manages to break free; Trip isn’t so lucky.
Ransik is sentenced to a lifetime of cryogenic containment and the four Time Force officers are ordered to escort him to the jail. Unfortunately, Ransik’s daughter Nadira attacks them and they escape together. Frustrated with the situation, Lucas grabs Trip and demands to know why he didn’t tell them Ransik would try to escape, since he could read his mind. Trip stutters out that it's not a skill he can use; it's just something that happens sometimes. Before it can escalate further, Katie pulls them apart and tells Lucas in no uncertain terms to leave him alone. Lucas knows better than to pick a fight with her and storms off; Katie offers Trip what comfort she can.
After Captain Logan fires them for losing Ransik, they start walking to who knows where. Katie stays with Trip as he lags behind. Suddenly, Trip sees Ransik and Nadira planning their escape into the past. When it’s over, he stumbles a step, but Katie catches him before he falls. He tells the others where Ransik is going.
At the jail, Ransik and Alex fight once more, only this time Ransik succeeds and ‘kills’ Alex in front of Jen and the others. Katie and Trip watch sadly as Jen says what she thought would be her farewell to the man she loves. Jen promises her fiancé they’ll stop Ransik and they take the Chrono Morphers Alex gave Jen right before he died, steal a Time Ship, and follow him into the past.
They wind up crashing in the year 2001. Circuit wakes Trip up, telling him the ship is about to explode. Trip gets everybody out before the ship goes up in flames; afterwards, Katie helps him up and thanks him.
The officers discover they can’t unlock their morphers unless they have a fifth member. However, it can only be used by Alex or someone with his DNA. When they find a match in the good-natured but spoiled Wes Collins, Katie and Trip are both thrilled to have a new member on their, and both are disappointed when Jen kicks him out. Luckily for everyone involved, Trip later snuck off to find Wes and convinced him to ask for another chance.
‘Short-Circuited’ and ‘Jen’s Revenge’ focused on Trip and Jen respectively, but it’s worth noting that Katie reassured Trip that he wasn’t at fault after trusting a scheming Nadira and Circuit getting kidnapped in the former, and in the latter after getting caught spying on Wes and Jen in the middle of a moment having the brilliant idea of teasing them by re-enacting said moment— and embellishing on it just a bit. Jen’s reaction is pretty much what you would expect.
‘Future Unknown’ is the first time Katie’s family is mentioned. Trip catches her gazing sadly at her photograph and comments that she must miss them a lot. Katie replies that knowing she’ll get to see them again once they catch Ransik is the one thing that keeps her going sometimes. So she understandably took Circuit’s news that their actions in 2001 are affecting the thirtieth century, visibly shaken. When the team goes to stop the mutant currently rampaging through the city Trip is the only one who can snap her out of it.
The fight doesn’t go well for the Rangers, and Katie finally has all she can stand. She tells the other she’ll fight, but only if they can promise her future, her family will remain unchanged. Desperate, she begs Trip to tell her the future will be the same, he tells her the truth: he can't.
The others decide they’ll fight, regardless of their futures. Before Trip goes, he tells Katie that it ‘feels like the right thing to do’ before morphing and leaving. Luckily, after some brief words with Wes Katie realizes she and her family won’t have a future at all if she doesn’t, and she helps her friends to re-arrest the mutant. As the team watches their zords fly back to the future, Trip wonders out loud if they'll ever return home. Katie tells him of course they will, and they share a tender moment.
And that, sadly, was probably the most focus we got on their relationship in the series. Unlike Wes and Jen or even Lucas and Nadira they never had an episode that explored their feeling for each other. What we did get were a bunch of little moments over the course of the series: in ‘Uniquely Trip’ after Trip went through a lot of self-doubt but saved the day anyways Katie has him come to the park and along with the other three Rangers surprises him by wearing a bright green wig, then grabbing him in a hug while making a kissy face. Katie holds him tight at the end of ‘Time Force Traitor’, and in a light-hearted moment in ‘Dawn of Destiny’ she and Wes tackle Trip to a couch (on a children’s show, no less). They smile together when Wes returns in ‘Destiny Defeated’; they go shopping with comic results in ‘Undercover Rangers’. The moments are brief, and never went into as much detail as I would’ve liked, but are satisfying nonetheless.
The last time we see them is in the Power Rangers Wild Force episode ‘Reinforcements from the Future part II’. After the Mut-Orgs have been defeated and Ransik has become a human being, both teams celebrate with a picnic. Katie easily bests Danny Delgado at arm wrestling, while Trip leans on her and cheerfully tells her to just beat him already.
My Tomorrow
So why do I like this pairing?
Well, for starters it’s refreshing. Most Ranger pairings (Tommy and Kim in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, Blake and Tori in Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Trent and Kira in Power Rangers Dino Thunder) tend to skirt around their feelings-- which makes sense, since most of them are teenagers. However, seeing characters not afraid to show their affection very often makes for a nice change. And if there’s one thing these two have an abundance of, it’s affection. It’s hard to find a scene where they’re not draped all over each other.
Although I think my reason for shipping them started way back in 2001. I was home sick and saw Power Rangers was on and figured I liked the show as a kid plus nothing better was on, so why not? The episode was ‘Trip Takes a Stand’ and there was something in the intensity Katie screamed out his name when between Notacon and Eric that made think they had something going on. A couple of years later I got back into Power Rangers thanks to Dino Thunder and Jetix re-running the older episodes and I got to see the rest of the series and all those wonderful moments they shared, and there was no looking back for me.
Fan Resources
timeforceWikipedia's article of Power Rangers.
Wikipedia's article on Power Rangers Time Force.
Rangerwiki. Power Rangers wiki. Still a work in progress, but already very useful. It's where I got most of my character information.
Power Rangers Central. Information on all fourteen seasons.
Over the Borderline, by Estirose. Rated 8+
And because this pairing really is that hard to find... my Katie/Trip fan fics. All written for the LiveJournal community
30_kisses.
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