Tech Aide Legacy

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A technical advisor’s role on a season is usually in the background aiding his/her Power Ranger team by whipping up gadgets, weapons, and maybe even zords to aide in the defeat of various monsters attacking their designated cities.

In this article, I will be going over the various technical advisors that have aided various Power Rangers teams over the years.


Tech Aide


Alpha 5
Voiced By: Richard Steven Horvitz
Played By: Romy J. Sharf, Sandi Sellner & Donene Kistler
Seasons: Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin’ Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo & Power Rangers Turbo
Alpha 5 is a robotic assistant created by King Lexian of Edenoi to assist Zordon in the Command Center. He also assists the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers & Zeo Rangers until Zordon decides to leave Earth and returns to Eltar.


Alpha 4
Season: Mighty Morphin’ Alien Rangers
Alpha 4 is a robotic assistant created by King Lexian of Edenoi to assist Zordon in the Command Center. At some point in time, he is replaced by Alpha 5, with his pieces stored in a box under the Command Center.


Billy Cranston
Played By: David Yost
Seasons: Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin’ Alien Rangers & Power Rangers Zeo
Billy Cranston is the former Blue Ranger that retires from Power Ranger duties to becomes a technical adviser to the Zeo Rangers, building weapons and zords that the Zeo Rangers regularly use to defeat monsters sent by The Machine Empire. After a mishap that inevitably causes Billy to start aging at an exponential rate is cured, he decides to stay on Aquitar and settle down with an Aquitian named Cestria.


Alpha 6
Voiced By: Katerina Luciani & Wendee Lee
Played By: Donene Kistler
Seasons: Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers In Space & Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Alpha 6 is a robotic assistant created by King Lexian of Edenoi to replace Alpha 5 in the Power Chamber after he returns to Eltar with Zordon and finds a new home on the Astro Megaship after the Power Chamber is destroyed by Divatox. Alpha 6 has two distinct personalities, one that was more brass and impatient during his tenure in the Power Chamber and one that is softer and patient after he gets a new voice box provided by Andros.


DECA
Voiced By: Julia Maddalena
Seasons: Power Rangers In Space & Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
DECA is the sentient supercomputer of the Astro Megaship.


Angela Fairweather
Played By: Monica Louwerens
Seasons: Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue & Power Rangers Time Force
Angela Fairweather is a scientist at Lightspeed Rescue that is responsible for developing all the technology used by the Lightspeed Rangers. She is constantly hit on by Joel Rawlings, the Green Lightspeed Ranger and the feelings are revealed to be the same as the two are later married after the Lightspeed Rangers defeat Queen Bansheera.


Trip
Played By: Kevin Kleinberg
Seasons: Power Rangers Time Force & Power Rangers Wild Force
Trip is a Time Force Officer that was part of a team that was transporting Ransik to the Cryo Prison, but fails after he is ambushed. He is then relieved of duty but still attempts to stop Ransik from commandeering the Cryo Prison and traveling back in time. He then commandeers a Time Ship and a Chrono Morpher to follow Ransik and becomes the Green Time Force Ranger. Trip is a Xybrian who has the ability to see the future due to a crystal embedded on his forehead. He is well versed in creating weapons and gadgets for the Time Force Rangers to use in battle including creating Circuit and the Electro Booster. Trip has low self-esteem due to him not thinking he has a place on the team, but is persuaded by his teammates after one of his gadgets helps bring in a mutant.


Circuit
Voiced By: Brianne Siddall
Seasons: Power Rangers Time Force & Power Rangers Wild Force
Circuit is a robotic owl created by Trip, the Green Time Force Ranger to assist the Time Force Rangers in their mission in the past with his databanks containing vast knowledge of the past. He also has communication with the future, being the one that is integral in summoning the Time Flyers.


Alpha 7
Voiced By: Richard Steven Horvitz
Season: Power Rangers Wild Force
Alpha 7 is a robotic assistant created by King Lexian of Edenoi that assist the Red Rangers in the Astro Megaship Mark II during their mission to prevent the Machine Empire Generals from digging up Serpentera.


Cam Watanabe
Played By: Jason Chan
Seasons: Power Rangers Ninja Storm & Power Rangers Dino Thunder
Cam Watanabe is the son of the Sensei Watanabe, the leader of the Wind Ninja Academy and technical adviser to the Wind Ranger. Cam is the one responsible for creating all the weaponry that the Wind Ranger’s utilize in battle against the Evil Space Ninjas. Cam desired to become a Power Ranger but is forbidden to do so after Sensei promised his mother, Miko not to put Cam in harms way. However, while traveling to the past to obtain the Samurai Amulet from his mother, he becomes the Green Samurai Ranger. After Lothor is sealed in the Abyss Of Evil, Cam graduates from the Wind Ninja Academy and becomes an advisor.


Cyber Cam
Played By: Jason Chan
Season: Power Rangers Ninja Storm
Cyber Cam is a cyber duplicate of Cameron Watanabe created by him in order to take command of Ninja-Ops while he was on the battlefield. He goes rogue when he is first created and pretends to be the real Cam until Cam is able to reprogram him to be dedicated to his duties in Ninja-Ops. Unlike the real Cam Watanabe, Cyber Cam is into extreme sports, being able to skateboard, motocross and surf.


Hayley Ziktor
Played By: Ismay Johnston
Season: Power Rangers Dino Thunder
Hayley Ziktor is the owner and manager of Hayley’s Cyberspace, an internet café located in Reefside. After Tommy Oliver is kidnapped by Mesogog’s forces, it is revealed that Hayley is an old college friend of Tommy Oliver’s and is responsible for creating the various technology used by the Dino Rangers. After Tommy Oliver becomes the Black Dino Ranger, she continues assisting the Dino Rangers by running the computers in the base and building weapons and vehicle on a whim, including making the Hovercraft Cycle she made for the Blue Dino Ranger fly when it’s required to defeat Tutenhawken.


Kat Manx
Played By: Michelle Langstone
Season: Power Rangers SPD
Kat Manx is the technical adviser of the SPD’s Earth Branch and is responsible for creating all the weapons and zords the SPD Rangers use in battle. Her intelligence is so admired that even Commander Birdie promotes her to work at SPD main headquarters for a short time. However, she resigns after seeing how much her services are needed on Earth. However, before she resigns, she is given a one hour morpher from Birdie that she uses to morph into Kat Ranger to stop an old rival of hers who was working with Broodwing.


Spencer
Played By: David Weatherly
Season: Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
Spencer is the loyal butler working for the Hartford Family that also becomes the caretaker of the Overdrive Rangers. Spencer is also a master of disguise, being able to create lifelike masks to wear and disguise himself as anyone, including mimicking their voices.


Alpha 6
Voiced By: Campbell Cooley
Season: Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
Alpha 6 is a robotic assistant created by King Lexian of Edenoi that returned to Earth after spending time on Mirinoi and put into storage in an Angel Grove Warehouse. He is reactivated with a new voice by Andrew Hartford and travels into the Morphin’ Grid to fix the Overdrive Rangers connection to the Morphin’ Grid. After the Overdrive Rangers & Veteran Rangers successfully destroys Thrax, he becomes an employee at Adam Park’s Dojo.


 

Robert “RJ” James
Played By: David DeLautour
Season: Power Rangers Jungle Fury
RJ is a Pai Zhuq Master of the Wolf Spirit who trained Casey Rhodes, Theo Martin & Lily Chilman to become Jungle Fury Power Rangers. RJ grew up under the thumb of his father Master Finn who wanted RJ to take up his technique. However, he decided to follow his own path and donned the Wolf Animal Spirit. When RJ isn’t his students how to harness their Animal Spirits, he’s running his own pizzeria known as Jungle Karma Pizza. After an altercation with Jarrod that caused his Wolf Spirit to transform him into a werewolf for a short time, RJ decides to join the fight against the Dai Shi Clan as the Wolf Ranger.


Doctor K
Played By: Olivia Tennet
Seasons: Power Rangers RPM & Power Rangers Beast Morphers
Doctor K is a child prodigy raised in the think tank codenamed Alphabet Soup, developing technology for them, including hacking into the Morphin’ Grid, which she called the Bio-Field in order to create the Ranger Series Operator powers and the Venjix Virus. Doctor K remained distant and friendless until she met Gem & Gemma, who she considered her best friends until they are presumed dead when she escapes the think tank after releasing the Venjix Virus onto the Earth. To make up for this mistake, Doctor K works with Corinth’s Defense Force to form a team to use her Ranger Series Operator suits. She keeps her identity a secret, preferring to use a computer with a voice filter in order to communicate with her team until she reveals her identity after being called out for her privacy. She is cold and distant to her team at first until she is reunited with her best friends, Gem & Gemma, where she becomes closer to her team. After Venjix is presumably destroyed, she opens up a school with Ziggy, Ranger Operator Series Green, teaching the students there bio-field physics, shadow puppets and cooking.


 

Antonio Garcia
Played By: Steven Skyler
Seasons: Power Rangers Samurai, Power Rangers Super Samurai & Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel
Antonio Garcia is a childhood friend of Jayden, the Red Samurai Ranger that promised to fight by his side when the two of them grew up. Antonio grows up to be a fisherman and comes to Panorama City to become the Gold Samurai Ranger. Antonio is a tech wizard, being able to create his Gold Samurai Morpher and unlock the Black Box. After Master Xandred is defeated, Antonio enrolls in a worldwide fishing expedition.


Tensou
Voiced By: Estevez Gillespie
Seasons: Power Rangers Megaforce & Power Rangers Super Megaforce
Tensou is the robotic assistant of Gosei that aids the Megaforce Rangers by informing them of Warstar attacks. He is also well-versed in creating weapons and zords for the Megaforce Rangers to use in battle, which includes giving the Command Center to ability to transform into the Gosei Ultimate Megazord.


 

Kendall Morgan
Played By: Claire Blackwelder
Seasons: Power Rangers Dino Charge & Power Rangers Dino Super Charge
Kendall Morgan is the museum director of the Amber Beach Dinosaur Museum that secretly works for an alien named Keeper, the guardian of the Energems and assists him by finding the people that bond with them and recruiting them as Dino Charge Rangers. She’s also responsible for creating a lot of the technology the Dino Charge utilize, including the Dino Chargers. Kendall almost never make mistake but when she does, she corrects them. Kendall becomes a Dino Charge Ranger herself when she bonds with the Purple Energem while attempting to defend Keeper from Spikeballs on Sledge’s Spaceship, becoming the Purple Dino Charge Ranger.


Redbot
Voiced By: Byron Coll
Played By: Emma Carr & Kōji Mimura
Seasons: Power Rangers Ninja Steel & Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel
Redbot is a sentient red robot that worked on the Warrior Dome in the janitorial department. He is also the best friend of Brody Romero while he was on the Warrior Dome and after escaping the Warrior Dome, he assists Mick Kanic in the base by helping melt down Ninja Steel and creates Ninja Power Stars. Redbot is also main inspiration for the Robo Red Zord. Redbot is programmed with human emotions and feelings, being able to feel pain and has a desire for attention and does so by writing a blog telling alternative stories about the Ninja Steel Rangers where he assists in fighting Galaxy Warriors Contestants.


Alpha 5
Played By: Bill Hader
Movie: Power Rangers (2017)
Alpha 5 is the robotic assistant 0f Zordon that was in charge of training the five teens that found the Power Coins so they are able to morph into Power Rangers.


Nate Silva
Played By: Abraham Rodriguez
Season: Power Rangers Beast Morphers
Nate Silva is a child prodigy that came to Grid Battleforce when he was six years old and was able to tap into the Morphin’ Grid at ten years old. He was able to convert its energy into a liquid energy source called Morph X. Nate Silva is also
in charge of creating the weapons and gear for Grid Battleforce and the Beast Morphers Rangers. Due to his parent’s working overseas, Nate grew up in Grid Battleforce without any friends or family but begins to develop a friendship with the Beast Morphers Rangers. After stopping Scrozzle’s attempt at freeing Evox and using his device to combine his DNA with that of a Mantis, Nate becomes the Gold Beast Morphers Ranger. Nate reveals to Zoey that he has feelings for her but the two keep it secret due to strict Grid Battleforce regulations. However, after Commander Shaw sees how their relationship is more of a strength than a weakness, the two are allowed to date. Nate eventually learns that as a child he accidentally transforms a fragment of the Venjix Virus into Evox after experimenting on the Cell Shift Morpher with Morph-X and Snake DNA. After the Beast Morphers Rangers destroy Venjix once and for all, Nate develops alternative clean energy sources for Coral Harbor.


Solon
Voiced By: Josephine Davidson
Played By: Dahnu Graham
Season: Power Rangers Dino Fury & Power Rangers Cosmic Fury
Solon is a Solonasaurus that is given Rafkonian cybernetic implants after being injured in the Great Sporix War. After the Great Sporix War ends, Solon guards the stasis pod containing Zayto, the Red Dino Fury Ranger and the captured Sporix in the lair underneath Dinohenge for millions of years. Solon is technically skilled, being able to develop and fix weapons for the Dino Fury Rangers. She is also wise and compassionate, giving the Dino Fury Rangers advice relating to problems in their personal life. Solon continues to aid her team with her technological intelligence after they becomes the Cosmic Fury Rangers, creating a robotic arm for Javi Garcia when he loses it when he inserts Master Red’s Staff into the pillar to summon the Cosmic Fury Zord. She is also responsible for contributing her essence into a Cosmic Orb for Fern so that she may become the Orange Cosmic Fury Ranger. She also converts the Cosmic Cruiser into a spaceship, piloting it with the female Cosmic Fury Rangers.


Alpha 8
Voiced By: Richard Steven Horvitz
Special: Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Once And Always
Alpha 8 is a robotic assistant created by King Lexian of Edenoi for Billy Cranston, aiding him in the Command Center located under Cranston Tech. He also assist him in using Z Wave energy to bring back Zordon but ends up having his body taken over by the evil essence of Rita Repulsa.


Alpha 9
Voiced By: Richard Steven Horvitz
Special: Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Once And Always
Alpha 9 is a robotic assistant created by King Lexian of Edenoi for Billy Cranston after his predecessor, Alpha 8 is taken over by the evil essence of Rita Repulsa. Alpha 9 is tasked with aiding Billy Cranston in the Command Center located underneath Cranston Tech and developing Proxy Power Coins for Rocky DeSantos & Katherine Hillard to transform into the Red Ranger & Pink Ranger.