What if Rita and Zedd never returned to Earth after “A Ranger Catastrophe”?
Removing Rita and Zedd from the Zeo era entirely would have given the Machine Empire total focus. We wouldn’t have gotten the bizarre, somewhat out-of-character comedic turn that Rita and Zedd took in Season 4. The tone of Zeo would have remained consistently sci-fi and slightly more serious. The absence of Rita and Zedd would…