Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

Mr. Tate was a cousin of Wes who used the Time Force Powers after Wes retired.

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

they weren't Time Force powers. Sky's Dad was using S.P.D. Ranger powers and not Time Force powers in S.P.D. regardless of the suit that he was using.

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

a big fat resounding NO. Wes was not Sky's Dad this was even said by Kalish himself that Wes was not Sky's Dad.

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

SPD took possession of the Time Force Powers. When I said Wes retired its more of an official thing..Since he was forced to retire when he refused to work with Hexagon or SPD. Which is why Wes's cousin was brought in. He had the proper dna to use the morpher.

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

The whole reason Wes and Eric were allowed to keep the morphers was because they were part of Hexagon and SPD's origins. Which made it part of Time Force's own origins.

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

It was always destiny that the Red and Quantum Morphers would be a big part of the origin of Time Force. Some version of the Rangers and Mutants always went back in time. It was always just a matter of how much history changed each time. It was Alexs.job to make sure it didn't change too much so that Time Force didn't happen. Alex was from an earlier version of the future and operated in secret. The Alex killed in the premiere was the Alex of the version of the future we saw st the start. Its why Alex was different than what Jen remembered. Alex Prime fell in love with his own timelines version of Jen. So he had to watch the latest Jen fall in love with another version of himself. And later, the very source of the genetic materal his counterparts and himself always were cloned from. All Alex's were cloned from Wes..

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

Thats pretty similar to my own statement on the matter..

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

nope on the clone thing. Jackie herself even stated that they were NOT clones.

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

Not saying Jackie is wrong. But I always thought it was odd that they were supposed to be related. They never mentioned it on the show and the clone thing seemed more natural. They had a ready made excuse with the genetic engineering thing. Since that opens the door for cloning..

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

yea I think they were supposed to say something but they probably forgot to mention it due to all of the behind-the-scenes headaches since they were supposed to have a movie and they were supposed to have a bunch more episodes but because of an impending SAG strike that nixed those plans plus you also had to worry about all of those 9/11 edits as well.

They were pretty much translating Timeranger script-for-script for most episodes. Alex became a jerk like Captain Ryuuga was the only difference is that he didn't stay one whereas Ryuuga did and Ryuuga was more evil at that on top of which he was more forthcoming about info although I think he was just revealing the info to be kind of cruel whereas Alex refused to reveal any info about how the future was changing.

Re: why couldn't Wes go to the future?
 

Alex was actually a nice guy who had his fiancee taking away from him after almost dying. Yet he did his duty and did what he thought was right to maintain the future. He was cold because of the weight his job put on him. As soon as he realizes the team is better off with Wes he backs off. He is actually a very sympathetic character.