Okay, it looks like it's actually
Kyuuranger, and it's using the katakana for
kyu-u rather than the symbol for 9, although that doesn't necessarily mean anything, since they usually use katakana for the team names. But according to my Japanese dictionary,
kyuu can mean "globe." So maybe it's
Space Task Force Planet Rangers, essentially.
Or maybe it's supposed to be
Q Ranger, rendered phonetically. Maybe something to do with "quantum" technology.
But there aren't NINE planets anymore...
Maybe there are, since there's increasing evidence of an undiscovered outer planet. Of course, the number of known planets has changed often over the centuries since the telescope was invented, so it's unwise to get attached to any number. (First we thought the planets only went out to Saturn, then we discovered Uranus, then for decades we listed Ceres, Vesta, and other asteroids as planets before we discovered how small they were, then we found Neptune, etc.) Even if we prove that "Planet Nine" exists, it doesn't mean there aren't more undiscovered planets still farther out.
We could do with a hard sci-fi sentai show, it's been a while. I loved Gobusters but the iterations since then have been on the more juvenile / fantasy / magical slant, so we're due.
Yeah, I quite liked
Gobusters. More in that vein would be good.
I wonder if they'll balance it out with magical space monsters as their mecha.
How about the
Four Symbols of Chinese astronomy -- Azure Dragon of the East, Vermilion Bird of the South (often mistaken for the Firebird), White Tiger of the West, and Black Turtle of the North -- plus the
Yellow Dragon of the Center? Then you've got Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, and White Rangers, a pretty standard combination. Except then you've got two dragon mecha. As for auxiliary mecha, they could draw on the Chinese zodiac. (This scheme would basically be emulating
Digimon Tamers, which featured twelve Digimon "Devas" based on the zodiac and four "Sovereigns" based on the Four Symbols.)
