Venjix and the Morphin Grid: Is the Venjix virus actually a sentient part of the Morphin Grid?

If the base survived into the Turbo and In Space eras, Zordon wouldn’t have been captured. The Rangers would have had a permanent “Pentagon-level” headquarters on Earth, making the war against the Alliance of Evil a formal military conflict. The “Space” era would have been a fleet-based offensive led by Zordon himself from the desert …