[Sh Ranger]

Wow, a lot of Showa Gears here. Stacaesar's Dark Gears and presumably the Zenkaigers' Gears seem to exclude the power of any additional Rangers. Instead, Twokaizer's Gears grant him those powers, hence how he was able to use Big One's White Leader power (or maybe it's just Miyauchi's charisma) to control JAKQ similar to how Oma Zi-O controlled Drive.

Battle Fever Gear was pretty humorous for how it turned Kaito's and Zox's duel in to a dance-off. I can't imagine when that's ever going to be practical in a real fight though, but this show usually finds a way to defy expectations. I actually expected that samba stuff from the last episode to be an effect of the Kyoryuger Gear activated offscreen, but maybe two dancing Gears would be redundant.

I don't understand how Maskman Gear saved Kaito's life, but maybe it'll make more sense when I watch that show. Does their Aura Power create illusions or something like that? I would have liked a better explanation from Secchan.

Kyuranger now ties with Hurricanger as the most popular Gear. If you're a Kyuranger fan, Talk About Lucky!

On to the plot, the Zenkaigers and Zox finally co-operate to set up this pretend duel in this episode which BTW was totally not written by Yonemura at all and they even get the conventional roll call. Stacey really takes it hard here though, since he was too arrogant to consider that maybe Zox wouldn't just take his word for handing over the SDtopia Toziru Gear. Zox comes from a world where everybody is a pirate, so I doubt there's much incentive for trust in a world like that! Stacey should probably work on understanding his enemy first if he wants to have a better chance at beating them.