Dragon Ball Z - Season Four (Garlic Jr.,
Trunks, and Android Sagas)
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Goku is still missing in action after the destruction of the
planet Namek, as the fourth season of Dragon Ball Z opens.
With Goku unavailable, Gohan and the other Z-fighters must defeat
Garlic Jr., who has reemerged from the Dead Zone with his
accomplices, the Spice Boys. Gohan saves the Earth by ramping up his
powers and destroying the planet Makyo, the source of Garlic's
strength. Before the dust can settle a new menace arrives: A largely
robotic version of Frieza and his more powerful father, King Cold.
These villains are easily dispatched by a new Super Saiyan: Trunks,
the illegitimate son of Vegeta and Bulma. Trunks has come from the
future to save Goku from what would have been a fatal heart virus.
Goku must live to prevent the Artificial Humans created by Dr. Gero
from ravaging the Earth. (Gero was one of the leaders of the Red
Ribbon Army, which Goku destroyed in Dragon Ball.) But
Trunks' mission may have altered the future in ways he didn't
intend: Instead of two Androids, there are three, all programmed to
kill Goku. The season ends on a cliffhanger, with the fate of the
Z-Fighters--and the Earth--hanging in the balance. Trunks' visit
creates a number of paradoxes, including the problem of his existing
as an adult and an infant in the same space-time. However, these
questions are unlikely to trouble Dragon Ball fans, who will
be too busy watching Vegeta training at 450 gravities, Gohan
mastering his latent powers, Goku's new combat move, and any number
of battles, not to mention the comic relief of Krillin's courtship
of Maron and Master Roshi's continued lechery. Some of these
epsiodes were recut into the feature The History of Trunks.
(Rated TV PG. suitable for ages 8 and older: violence, alcohol and
tobacco use, ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon
