Alot of people say this.
As a kid the Zeo saga was soooo good and then Turbo came and fukked everything up with that goofy ass kid and his awful storylines I was just done.
Matter of fact wasn’t Turbo the end of the OG MMPR saga? Didn’t Zordon and Alpha travel back home and some chick took over the Command Center? I keep hearing that Lost In Space was the end but didn’t that have an ENTIRELY new cast of characters led by a black guy?
Long ass post, brace yourself breh...
You're taking aspects of Turbo and Lost...Tommy and them graduated highschool and had to transfer their powers so they could go to college and yea they did transfer their powers to 4 new people which did include the black dude who would become the red ranger, TJ. Only the lil kid blue rangers stayed
What happens is that when Zordan leaves for his home planet like you mentioned, he gets captured by the bad guys and they start to drain his energy. Up in space a new Red Ranger goes undercover to try and save zordan and this is Andros, who will be introduced as the new Red Lost in Space ranger.
Before now, the power rangers never had access to space and sneak into a NASA space shuttle to hijack it and go into space and save Zordan, but the lil kid Justin is left behind for him being too young. While in space, Andros is flying in his Astro Megaship and comes across the Turbo rangers in the Nasa spaceship and captures them cause he considers them suspicious or something like that. While they are on his ship he gets an alert about Zordons location and goes into action but the 4 Turbo rangers tell him they are also rangers and beg to come along but he doesn't believe they will be helpful and denies their request. After getting his ass kicked a lil bit he realizes his best bet is to let them help and gives them 4 astro morphers....and thus the new Lost in Space squad is born
The end of Lost in Space is the astro rangers finally finding Zordon. But while Zordan was capture the bad guy was building an army which includes all the bad guys from the previous series like Rita Lord Zedd etc and are about to make a final assault to destroy all life in the universe. Previous rangers like the gold ranger are trying to help but the bad guys are just too powerful at this point
So with only a few mins to act Zordan makes Andros the red ranger destroy his tube which will allow Zordon's power to purify all evil in the universe but will in the process kill Zordon. Andros hesitates cause he doesn't wanna kill zordon but comes to terms that its the only option left and shatters zordon's tube.
Zordon's essence is spread across the galaxy and all previous bad guys are either killed or purified like Rita and Zedd was and become good.
And that's the end to Lost in Space and also what become known as the Zordon Era of power rangers. This was supposed to be the end of the whole franchise but Saban knew power rangers make too much money and continued to make more with Lost Galaxy next. Now while lost galaxy is not connected to the Zordon plot it does take place after the zordon situation as the series start with Damen the green ranger finding the lost in space rangers ship which the galaxy rangers use for travel but not a megazord
This is also the first series where we start seeing team ups, where the lost in space rangers show up in galaxy quite a few times and its important to the plot.
What Lost Galaxy does very interesting and a first ever is that it kills a power ranger, never done before. The Pink Ranger dies and in a twist gives her powers to a reformed Karone, who was one of the bad guys in Lost and Space and the red space rangers little sister. The old pink ranger believes in redemption and feels Karone as earned her right to be a good person and protector of the galaxy.
And that's pretty much it....good ass shows. Afterwards they would be ok....Dino Thunder years later would bring a lot of people back into the series due to good writer and bringing back a now adult Tommy as a mentor Black Dino Ranger