Making Ryan Steele the Gold Ranger
 

Brad Hawkins was orginally going to reprise his role as Ryan Steele ( from VR Troopers) on Power Rangers Zeo. He was going to be the Gold Ranger. But Austin St. John was brought back instead and Hawkins just did the voice over work for Trey. This has been known in the fandom for years.

Anyway, I was thinking of a way of how Ryan could have been brought into the Show, if they went that route. Perhaps the VR Trooper Universe could have been treated like a parrellel universe. Somehow Ryan traveled from Virtual Reality to the PRU, which would be an alternate universe to him. Virtual Reality would have a link to both universes somehiow.

Persumably he would have found the Gold Ranger power before crossing Universe. Maybe a long lost Sixth Zeo shard somehow made its way into Virtual Reality. Ryan used ot to defeat Grimlord and found himself stranded in a new Universe afterwards. Now I am just coming up with a theory. This isn't anything that was alleged to have been planned. We will never know how they would have handled the crossover.