Jen Scotts
| File:Jen unmorphed.jpg Jennifer "Jen" Scotts | |
| First Appearance: | Force from the Future Part 1 (Power Rangers: Time Force) |
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| Last Appearance: | Reinforcements from the Future Part 2 (Power Rangers: Wild Force) |
| Status: | Time Force officer, leader of the Time Force Rangers |
| Affiliation: | Time Force |
| Homeworld: | Earth circa 3000 AD |
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Jennifer "Jen" Scotts is a fictional character in the Power Rangers: Time Force TV series, played by Erin Cahill. In the series, she is the Pink Time Force Ranger.
Character history
In the distant future of the year 3000, Jennifer was an officer for the Time Force Police, which has nearly eradicated crime. The only remaining villain was a mutant named Ransik. Jen was present - as were many other Time Force operatives - when the Red Time Force Ranger, Alex, managed to arrest Ransik and take him for trial.
Jen similarly attended the trial with Alex, whom she had been dating for some time and who, it is later revealed, was also the one that had helped her pass the Time Force entrance exam. With Ransik captured, Alex proposed to Jen and she accepted his offer. Whether anything could have come from this relationship is unknown, because Jen and her team were waylaid while transporting Ransik to the cryo-prison. Though they attempted to chase him down, they arrived just in time to see Ransik strike down Alex before escaping into the past. With his final breath, Alex charged her and her team (Lucas, Trip and Katie) with travelling into the past and apprehending Ransik again. He gave her his Red Chronomorpher, and informed her of four similar Chronomorphers that they could use to become Time Force Rangers. Distraught by the apparent death of her lover, she did as he had asked and travelled to the year 2001, where she and the others were stranded in the fictional town of Silver Hills.
Unfortunately, as the four Time Force operatives discovered, the four Chronomorphers would not work without the Red Chronomorpher. They were forced to recruit Wesley Collins, a local man with a genetic resemblance to Alex, despite Jen's objections. Jen became the Pink Time Force Ranger and leader of the team.
Seeing only the differences between Wes and Alex, she refused to let Wes join the team until he saved them at Trip's urging. It took some time, but she was finally able to accept him for who he was. In return, Wes helped them adjust to 21st century life - by providing an abandoned clock tower as a place to stay, and present-day clothes. Discovering that the clock tower had once been home to a business ("Nick of Time Odd Jobs"), Jen decided to open the store for their keep. When Wes' father, Mr Collins, discovered the identities of the Rangers, he attempted to hire them behind Wes' back, but Jen (and the others) refused him.
Over time, Jen developed true affection for Wes. However, when Alex mysteriously returned, seemingly from the dead, and stripped Wes of the Red Time Force Ranger powers, Jen found herself asking which of them she loved more. Alex had become bitter and stern, "following the book" to the degree that he would accept no suggestions beyond his own, unlike Wes who was team-oriented and friendly. Ironically, it was the differences between Wes and Alex that made her choose Wes. Alex returned to the future, finally convinced that Wes was right for the job.
The romance between Jen and Wes would not last long after that, as a rift in time started to form over Silver Hills as Ransik prepared his final assault. In response, Wes traps Jen and the other Rangers in their own time ship, set to travel back to 3000. Upon arrival, Jen learns from Alex that Wes was killed in the eventual fight. Furthermore, Jen and the other Rangers had to, by Time Force policy, have their memories of the past wiped clean. Not wanting to lose Wes, either from his death or from having her memory wiped clean, Jen convinces her fellow Power Rangers to return back in time to help him in battle, while at the same time, formally ending her engagement with Alex.
Their intervention saved Wes, and Ransik voluntarily turned himself in. Unfortunately, with the mission over, Jen and Wes were forced to part ways. Though she knew that she had loved Wes - and told him so - she could not stay in 2001 with him.
A year later, during the Reinforcements from the Future episodes of Power Rangers: Wild Force, Jen made her final appearance in the series. As a member of Time Force, she was assigned to track down the three mysterious Mut-Orgs (Rofang, Kired, and Takach), but had apparently gone missing. Her travels took her back in time to the year 2002, where she saves the Wild Force Rangers and the Silver Guardians from being destroyed by the Mut-Orgs. Joining forces with them and the other Time Force Rangers from the future, they managed to destroy the Mut-Orgs. For a short while at least, she was reunited with Wes. Presumably she had to return to the future after this, however nothing is said for sure. Whether Jen returned to the future or stayed in 2002 is for individual viewers to decide for themselves.
Trivia
- Jen was the second female Ranger to serve as a team leader (the first being Delphine), and the first (and so far, the only) Pink Ranger to serve as a team leader.
- Jen was also the only Pink Ranger to not have an immediate successor. Her Successor, Sydney Drew of S.P.D, came 4 seasons later, since Wild Force had no Pink Ranger (they had a White Ranger instead).
- It should be noted that Jen's surname of "Scotts", whilst generally accepted by the Power Rangers fanbase, did not appear on the show, though it did appear in an official Power Rangers related media release.