But several weeks into shooting her scenes, evidently the studio wasn’t happy with how things were going with Mariska in the Dulcea role, so once Fitzpatrick had recovered, she was brought back in to resume her Dulcea duties.
According to an interview that Blue Ranger actor David Yost gave nearly a decade ago, he and his fellow Ranger performers filmed a bunch of scenes with Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, but after she got sick and needed to go to the hospital to undergo surgery, Mariska Hargitay was brought in as her replacement.