Trivia / Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

• Actor Leaves, Character Dies: Valerie Vernon was diagnosed with leukemia during filming, Kendrix was killed off by sacrificing herself to save Cassie. Thankfully, her leukemia was cured in time for her revival in the final episode.
• California Doubling: Isn't it amazing how much Terra Venture's city looks so much like downtown L.A.?
• Creator Backlash:
  • It's believed Danny Slavin only took the role of Leo to pay for law school and has retired from acting since. The behind-the-scenes troubles that went on while filming the Lost Galaxy/Lightspeed Rescue team-up the following season only further soured his feelings towards his experiences (basically, the producers tried to screw over Trakeena's actress Amy Miller out of her paycheck and Slavin literally walked off the set alongside Miller in protest of this, forcing the producers to have to hire a body double for the remainder of his scenes and do their best to avoid showing his face during the episode). It practically took a miracle (and the producers calling in personal favors) to get him to appear in "Forever Red", and he repeatedly turned down numerous invitations to appear at Power Morphicon. However, as of 2014, he's begun to soften up, as he's made appearances at conventions and also accepted a cameo invitation for Megaforce.
  • Paul Schrier jokingly calls Lost Galaxy "the couch season" because of how little Bulk had to do.
• Creator's Favorite Episode:
  • Danny Slavin and Cerina Vincent each cited the "Quasar Quest" season opener.
  • Amy Rolle's is "Heir to the Throne".
  • Reggie Rolle's is "Green Courage".
  • Valerie Vernon Landon's is "Double Duty".
  • Melody Perkins' is "Protect the Quasar Saber".
• Dawson Casting: Leo is played by then 25-year-old Danny Slavin, despite his on-screen older brother Mike being played by then 21-year-old Russell Lawrence. It's especially noticeable as Russell doesn't even look older than Danny, appearing about the same age as him if not slightly younger.
• Delayed Release Tie-In: The only Lost Galaxy villains to have had toys released for the series' toyline were Captain Mutiny and Barbarax, but because their toys came much, much earlier than their actual appearances (delayed due to their suits being unavailable for Saban to use) they were just listed as "Space Buccaneer" and "Space Android". Making matters worse is that Mutiny and his pirates were teased 10 episodes into the series in a preview for a following episode but because of the issue with the suits they didn't appear until near the end of the series.
• Development Gag: Thanks to the previous season using the name "Galaxy Gliders" for vehicles that turned into cycles (thanks to Added Alliterative Appeal), the bikes of this season got named Astro Cycles instead (PRiS bandied the word "Astro" a few times, including the name of the Megazord).
• Missing Episode: "Forging a Friendship", the "Air Force One on the Megaship" episode with Cassie and Maya, was discarded after Patricia Ja Lee's contract dispute with Saban Entertainment forced her off the show. A transcription of its script was eventually leaked to the fandom and confirmed authentic by the writers.
• Prop Recycling:
  • The military armor was courtesy of Starship Troopers. Also, the Magna Morpher was from Dairanger, unused in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers since they were still sticking with a lot of Zyuranger stuff.
  • One of the helmets from the above-mentioned armor would be repainted and redressed in To the Tenth Power as some of the remains of Psycho Red.
  • This series also recycles several monster costumes from previous Power Rangers series (some unused) as well as some from its sister series, Big Bad Beetleborgs.
  • Furio, the villain responsible for petrifying all of Mirinoi in the season premiere, was the monster form of Dr. Hinelar, the main villain of Denji Sentai Megaranger. That's largely the reason Furio isn't around too long, he wasn't in Gingaman. (He replaced Sambash, the first of the Gingaman villains to go, apparently because the costume was unavailable; Sambash's costume was instead used as the much different character Villamax.)
• Real Life Writes the Hairstyle:
  • Cerina Vincent initially wore three layers of hair extensions. One night, she fell asleep without brushing them and woke up to find out they had gathered in a big clump at the side of her head. They had to be cut out, and she just wore wigs from then on.
  • Valerie Vernon wore a wig in the finale because she had just finished chemotherapy.
• Romance on the Set: Between Reggie Rolle (Damon) and Amy Miller (Trakeena). They are happily married to this day, which makes Damon referring to Trakeena as "cute" somewhat Hilarious in Hindsight and Heartwarming in Hindsight, or perhaps Reality Subtext, depending on when they started seeing each other (the episode he called her cute was near the end of the season).
• Screwed by the Network:
  • This season had the highest ratings for any Power Rangers opening, yet Digimon was being more heavily promoted, thus ratings fell.
  • The cast was promised a reunion movie. They never got it. And in the team-up with Lightspeed Rescue, most of the plot centers around a little girl than the actual Rangers. Also, Trakeena's actress, Amy Miller, got screwed out of her paycheck, which led to her and Danny Slavin storming off the set in protest.
• Troubled Production: Lost Galaxy had a bumpy ride to say the least.
  • The first problem came with the producers trying to turn a nature-themed Sentai series, Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, into a space-themed one, due to the success of Power Rangers in Space.
  • Then, early in the season, the Lights of Orion arc began, and it was near incomprehensible because episodes were still being filmed in the week before their airdate.
  • When that finished, they began an arc involving the Galaxy Book, which would tie in with the three vehicle/animal hybrid Zords (which actually did resemble the space theme to an extent, but they were rarely used in the source material so there wasn't a lot to work with), and Kendrix was going to be heavily involved in it. But then her actress Valerie Vernon was diagnosed with leukemia, which meant that arc had to rapidly be rewritten when Kendrix had to be written out to allow Vernon medical leave.
  • Patricia Ja Lee, Cassie from In Space, was originally set to replace Vernon as the Pink Galaxy Ranger. They filmed the hand off and an episode with her joining the team (which was an American-footage exclusive episode, referred to occasionally as "Air Force One on the Megaship"), but then, due to pay issues (the producers supposedly did not have the budget to pay her as a regular, only as a guest), Lee left. She was quickly swapped in with Melody Perkins (Karone), requiring another two American-exclusive footage heavy episodes.
  • Still trying to do something resembling their originally planned arc, they send Terra Venture to the Lost Galaxy (the one in the title they supposedly were supposed to be heading towards). It turned out as essentially a Filler Arc, likely incorporating as much Sentai footage as possible in order to save money for the finale (the show was bleeding money - even the cancellation of fellow Saban series The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nóg, which had their budget funneled over here, didn't help).
• What Could Have Been: Enough for its own page
• Word of St. Paul: In a panel at Power Morphicon 2014, Danny Slavin revealed that he thought that Leo and Kendrix could have ended up together as a couple and he personally preferred this pairing out of the three Leo was Ship Teased with (the other two being with Maya and Karone). Interestingly enough, and as stated elsewhere, the writers were planning on making Leo and Kendrix an Official Couple, and in the story, they made several hints to try and establish it, but this was, like many other things, derailed by Valerie Vernon's leukemia treatments.
• Working Title: Power Rangers Space Jungle
• Written-In Infirmity: Valerie Vernon was diagnosed with leukemia, so her character Kendrix was killed off. Thankfully, she got better, and in time to have Kendrix come back from the dead in the finale.

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