Commander Joseph Meraina

Commander Joseph Meraina is the 49 year old Mentor of the Astro Defense Rangers.

Bio
War changed Joseph in a different way, a month after Power Rangers Space Travel, Meraina and his faction was sent to handle post battle hunt, where his squad was killed. He returned beliving that he has to protect Earth, but after the Gem Searchers defeated the biggest wave of aliens, everyone thought the alien threat was over. Meraina was watching however as a a new team of rangers defeated another threat. Meraina was a the scene when the Triple Element Rangers defeated the lightning clan.

Astro Defenders
Meraina gathered Drake Hawk, Josh Dexter, Samuel Danyo, Leslie Sprite, and Carmen Grayson to become the Power Rangers Astro Defenders. At first the team didn't look like one, so he told Drake to rain them in. He watched as the rangersbeat their first monster and combine their Megazord, this was followed by win after win of the Rangers and their teamwork becoming more consistant.

New Aliens
During a fight with a difficult monster, the Rangers and Meraina were shocked at the apperance of a megazord. After this new Megazord defeated the monster, the Rangers hopped out of their Megazord to find an Orange and Silver Ranger on the ground who then ran away from the other Rangers.

Personality
Commander Meraina is strict and calculating, but realizes that if he squeezes the Rangers to hard, they will go out of line.

Apperance
Meraina is a Hawaiian American male with blue eyes and graying hair and mustache. He wears a blue suit with multiple badges on the left pectoral and 5 stars on the right and black dress shoes and dog tags.