FIVE BRAVE,SKILLED, AND ADVENTUROUS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE CHOSEN TO SEARCH FOR SEVERAL MAGICAL JEWELS THAT WERE LONG AGO TAKEN THE CORONA
AUROAR(LITERALLY "CROWN OF THE DAWN"), SO AS TO PREVENT THEM FROM COMING INTO THE POSSESSION OF
MOLTOR AND
FLURIOUS, WHO ARE BROTHERS BANISHED LONG AGO BY THE CORONAS GUARDIAN FOR HAVING ATTEMPTED TO STEAL IT.WHEN THE BILLIONAIRE EXPLORER ANDREW HARTFORD DISCOVERED THE CORONA
AUROAR, THEY ESCAPED THEIR EXILE AND RALLIED THEIR ALLIES. IN RESPONSE, ANDREW HARTFORD SELECTED THE TALENTED YOUTHS AND MODIFIED THEIR DNA SO AS TO GRANT THEM EXCEPTIONAL PHYSICAL POWERS BY WHICH TO COMBAT THE EVIL.ALTHOUGH
MOLTOR AND
FLURIOUS INITIALLY ATTEMPTED TO WORK TOGETHER, THEY SOON BECAME RIVALS.THE CORONA
AUROAR FELL INTO
MOLTOR'S HANDS;YET WITHOUT ITS JEWELS,IT COULD NOT GRANT THE OWNER UNIVERSAL POWER.LATER,THE EVIL WARRIORS
KAMDOR AND
MIRATRIX BEGAN HUNTING FOR THE JEWELS,AS DID THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL '
FEARCATS'.NOW THE RANGERS,JOINED BY A
MERCURIAN NAMED
TYZONN WHO JOINED THEIR RANKS AS THE MERCURY RANGERS,ARE FORCED TO FIGHT MULTIPLE VILLAINS AND TRAVEL WORLDWIDE IN THE EFFORT TO CAPTURE THE JEWELS BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES CAN.
IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THIS PURPOSE,THE MEMBERS OF OPERATION OVERDRIVE ARE EQUIPPED WITH FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY SIMILAR TO THAT FEATURED IN PREVIOUS POWER RANGER CONTINUITIES,WHICH IMPROVES IN SOPHISTICATION AND POWER WITH SUCCESSIVE EPISODES.EACH TIME A NEW RANGER,NEW WEAPON,OR(IN ONE
SUBLOT,IF NOT MORE)NEW REASON FOR BATTLE IS INTRODUCED,THAT RANGER,WEAPON OR REASON PRODUCES THE DECIMATION OF ONE MAJOR ENEMY(SUCH AS
KAMDOR AND
MIRATRIX) OR A HOST OF FOOT SOLDIERS.THEREAFTER THE ODDS RESUME THEIR FORMER STATE.