Power Rangers Discovery

Power Rangers Discovery are the thirtieth and thirty-first seasons of the American children's television series Power Rangers. The first season will premiere on Nickelodeon on 2023 - commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Power Rangers franchise, while the second season will premiere on 2024.

Discovery is the second series to be produced by Hasbro's Entertainment One, and the first Power Rangers series to be overseen by Jonathan Entwistle, who was appointed to develop Power Rangers projects across film, television and animation in October 2020. The season is produced using footage, costumes, and props from the fortieth entry in the Japanese long-running Tokusatsu Super Sentai series, Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger.

Synopsis
A non-governmental agency sends a group of explorers to a microscopic kingdom home to thousands of benevolent, anthropomorphic animals. When an ancient mutant warlord who has the potential to plunge society into chaos is unleashed upon the Earth, the explorers must join up with a novice zoologist with great knowledge of the realm's species to form a brand new team of Power Rangers, empowered by the ancient animal spirits, and the courage and will to discover, to defend the planet and fight the mutants with animal-powered weapons, Zords and Megazords.

Season 1
The Discovery Corps is a non-governmental organisation based in the city of Sovereign City, dedicated to exploration, research and defence of the Sub-Atomic Realm, an parallel, microscopic dimension, founded by commanding officer Solomon Burnham, an extra-terrestrial scientist and warrior from the fallen planet of Chimeria. He selects billionaire and Discovery chairman Anton Baxter, experienced Discovery operatives Daniel Elahi and Laura Jacobs, and rookies Jimmy Sophocles and Erin Tucker, to participate in Isis III, the third of a long line of missions to Instinctia, a kingdom ruled by a race of anthropomorphic animals known as Instinctians, and shrunk into the sub-atomic plane to isolate itself from those who threaten it.

During the crew's first mission, an accident leads to Xenu - an evil, ancient warrior who planned to shrink Earth into sub-atomic mass - being unleashed from Instinctia's core, which contains his essence. In his rampage, the freed Xenu lays waste to Instinctia and takes over Baxter's body, while the spirits of four fallen Instinctian masters are fused with the DNAs of the four remaining members. Michael Burnham, the commander's half-human son and a Discovery zoologist who met one of the Instinctian masters - Master Bird - as a child, finds out about the incident and decides to help the four surviving members. After their DNAs are studied and analysed, Commander Burnham grants the four Isis III crew members with the powers and abilities of the Discovery Rangers, making them Earth's only hope to stop Xenu - along with his lieutenants Narnette, Cubois and Malvor, and his army of mutant warriors attempting to take over the world and shrink it to sub-atomic mass. Against his father's wishes, Michael also joins the group as their fifth ranger, the Red Discovery Ranger.

Lester Crest, a disabled hacker who served as the Isis III's mission director, initially acts only as a guardian and technical advisor to the rangers, but as the series progresses, he acquires the Continental Tricon - an ancient weapon previously belonging to The World, a genocidal, artificial ranger-like warrior harnessing the power of three Instinctian Masters at once - to join the Rangers' ranks as the Continental Ranger. During this time, Molticon, one of the three ancient System Lords who is the master of the power of Zyncado, is resurrected and overthrows Xenu when he refuses to take orders from any human. After two of the three system lords are destroyed and Xenu reclaims his throne, Scermazu, a galactic bounty hunter dubbed "The Instinctian Ripper", briefly forms an alliance with Xenu with the hopes of leading him to the legendary Whale Nexus, and is eventually offered the position of general - on one condition: that he gives the coordinates to the Whale Nexus to Xenu in exchange for his allegience.

As the mere presence of Scermazu makes the Rangers tremble, Michael loses control of a Gorilla-based power-up form he obtained on mission to rescue his father by consuming a "Golden Banana", due to its protection against Zyncado wearing off. After three rampages against his teammates, and being controlled by Scermazu to fight against them, he is forced to discard it to prevent the Zyncado from devouring his humanity.

More to come...

Rangers
Core Rangers


 * TBA as Michael Burnham, the Red Discovery Ranger and second Whale Warrior, who is Commander Burnham's son.
 * TBA as Daniel Elahi, the Yellow Discovery Ranger.
 * TBA as Laura Jacobs, the Blue Discovery Ranger.
 * TBA as James "Jimmy" Sophocles, the Green Discovery Ranger.
 * TBA as Erin Tucker, the White Discovery Ranger.
 * TBA as Lester Crest, the Continental Ranger.

Additional


 * TBA as Solomon Burnham, the commanding officer of Discovery, Michael's father, the Rangers' mentor, and later the Avalon Ranger.

Allies

 * TBA as Amy Baxter, a Discovery intern, vlogger and Anton Baxter's estranged daughter.
 * Kelson Henderson as the voice of Digit, a robotic bird and ally of the Discovery Rangers who serves as a surveillance drone.
 * TBA as Corporal Sergei Kerimov, a high-ranking officer in Discovery's Defence and Law Enforcement unit.
 * TBA as the voice of Master Bird
 * TBA as the voice of Master Bigg Bear

Villains

 * Andrew Laing as the voice of Xenu
 * TBA as Anton Baxter, a billionaire who served as the Discovery III mission commander, whose body serves as Xenu's host.
 * Josephine Davison as the voice of Narnette
 * Estevez Gillepsie as the voice of Cubois
 * Campbell Cooley as the voice of Malvor
 * Jamie Linehan as the voice of Scermazu, the Instinctian Ripper