Episode List

Season One

More Than Meets the Eye
Transport to Oblivion
Roll For It
Divide and Conquer
Fire in the Sky
S.O.S. Dinobots
Fire on the Mountain
War of the Dinobots
The Ultimate Doom
Countdown to Extinction
A Plague of Insecticons
Heavy Metal War

Season Two

Autobot Spike
Changing Gears
City of Steel
Attack of the Autobots
Traitor
The Immobilizer
The Autobot Run
Atlantis, Arise!
Day of the Machines
Enter the Nightbird
A Prime Problem
The Core
The Insecticon Syndrome
Dinobot Island
The Master Builders
Auto Berserk
Microbots
Megatron's Master Plan
Desertion of the Dinobots
Blaster Blues
A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
The Golden Lagoon
The God Gambit
Make Tracks
Child's Play
Quest for Survival
The Secret of Omega Supreme
The Gambler
Kremzeek!
Sea Change
Triple Takeover
Prime Target
Auto-Bop
The Search for Alpha Trion
The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
Hoist Goes Hollywood
The Key to Vector Sigma
Aerial Assault
War Dawn
Trans-Europe Express
Cosmic Rust
Starscream's Brigade
The Revenge of Bruticus
Masquerade
B.O.T

Season Three

Five Faces of Darkness
The Killing Jar
Chaos
Dark Awakening
Forever is a Long Time Coming
Starscream's Ghost
Thief in the Night
Surprise Party
Madman's Paradise
Nightmare Planet
Ghost in the Machine
Webworld
Carnage in C-Minor
The Big Broadcast of 2006
The Quintesson Journal
The Ultimate Weapon
Fight or Flee
The Dweller in the Depths
Only Human
Grimlock's New Brain
Call of the Primitives
Face of the Nijika
The Burden Hardest to Bear
The Return of Optimus Prime

Season Four

The Rebirth

The God Gambit in a Nutshell...
Astrotrain thinks he's God. Some silly and scantily-clad humanoids on one of Saturn's moons agree with him...

More Than...You Want to Know!

Warning! Warning! Major spoilers ahead! Proceed at your own risk!

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Asteroid field...Check...Large, ringed, and striped planet in shades of yellow...Check...Smaller moon orbiting large, ringed, striped planet...Check... Well, apparently, we have the Saturnian system here, folks, or at least a highly fanciful interpretation of it...

Fanciful, indeed, for as we pan down onto said moon orbiting said large striped, ringed planet, we find people (Gossamer, the monster with tennis shoes from the Looney Tunes cartoons: "People! AAAAAARRRRRGGH!" Sorry, couldn't help myself.) They're carrying stuff up to a building on the peak of a very high mountain. Up in that building, watching the approaching column of people, a guy with a long beard, long hair, a feathery headdress, and bluish skin yells at another guy in black robes to hurry up. The other guy acknowledges the command with a jaunty wave and he and some other guys get to work preparing what is apparently a suspiciously TF-looking statue. Glowing rocks are placed into the statue's eyes and some people yank on ropes to lift the statue's arms, all while the guy with the headdress proclaims, "If the god isn't ready, you'll scrub the temple floor with your tongues!" (Yummy.) So, OK...The building is a temple, the statue is a representation of these peoples' god, the guy with the headdress is the high priest, and those folks are coming to offer tribute. Gotcha.

Meanwhile, a scantily-clad babe is scuttling about in the dark, watching the guys who are animating the statue of the god as if it were a giant marionette.

As the people arrive in the temple, the priest commands them to make with the "harvest offerings" to the "Sky Gods." One guy's offering is rather pitiful, in the estimation of the priest, and while he's distracted by berating the poor guy whose family is starving, the scantily-clad babe yells for her unknown compatriots to follow her. They launch an attack on the guys working the statue. The ropes snap and the statue of the god crumbles to dust. From above, the babe impugns the priest's (His name is Jarro, apparently) Sky Gods as an excuse for "high taxes and harsh laws." Jarro responds by saying that the babe (Talaria is her name, apparently) will be punished for her blasphemy, a threat that Talaria laughs off. She believes in reason and common sense (And ridiculous, feathery headwear... But not, apparently, in tops that cover her midriff or skirts that aren't slit up to her hipbone...Can you say "eye candy for the fanboys?" I thought you could...) and insists that there ain't no such thing as Sky Gods.

Meanwhile, out in space, Cosmos is being pursued through the asteroid belt we'd seen earlier by someone shooting lasers at him (I'll give ya ten guesses as to who it is...). He yells in to Autobot Headquarters for help (Like they can do anything sitting on their hinies back on Earth...) Optimus Prime, Jazz, and Perceptor gather around Teletran One's viewscreen as he reports that he's got "energy data on [his] tapes and Astrotrain on [his] tail." As Perceptor notes that the Decepticons will do anything to get the data that Cosmos has, Optimus orders Cosmos to beam the data to Earth. Red Alert, appearing out of nowhere, claims that to beam the data is too dangerous since the Decepticons could intercept it. Cosmos acknowledges and says that he'll deliver the data in person...

...Or maybe not, since Astrotrain finally succeeds in nailing Cosmos with an "ionic blast" after pulverizing the asteroid that he was hiding behind... He plummets helplessly through space while Optimus Prime back on Earth tries fruitlessly to reestablish communications with him.

Meanwhile, down on the moon, Talaria's orating to her fellow scantily-clad compatriots around a cheery bonfire set in a small clearing in the woods surrounding the mountain that houses the temple. She asserts that Jarro is using the Sky Gods as an excuse to rip them all off. One of the natives--the one that Jarro was impugning for his pitiful offering to the Sky Gods--protests that the Sky Gods are real and that they reward their subjects for their sacrifices. Talaria scoffs that their "reward" is to remain trapped in an area where food is scarce, so that people starve. Jarro, tied up with his fellow priests, insists that the Sky Gods forbid them to move, which is why the chasms between the areas of habitable land were formed in the first place. Talaria scoffs some more and challenges Jarro to show her a Sky God, so that she can ask him about that...

And her wish is Cosmos' command. At that very moment, he plummets through the moon's atmosphere and crashes in flames to the moon's surface. (Ouch!). Jarro notes that the Sky Gods have answered Talaria's challenge. She is speechless. (Which is amazing, for her...)

Meanwhile, Astrotrain, with Starscream and Thrust aboard, comes in to a landing at the temple. Surveying the area, Starscream recites the old "Here's the church, here's the steeple, open the doors, where are the people?" rhyme. (Mmmm-hmmmm...So this is what Screamer's learned from Earth so far? Greeeeeeeat.) Astrotrain tells him to shut up and Thrust notices the smoke from the bonfire... The people, meanwhile, have gathered around the fallen Cosmos. They fall to their knees after Jarro names him a Sky God. Astrotrain, watching from the temple high above, deduces that "these fools worship Transformers." (Though how he can deduce that from so far away is beyond me, but there it is, nevertheless..) And then Astrotrain decides that if he claims to be the supreme god, then the people will worship the Decepticons. (And this benefits the Decepticon cause how? Or is it just that poor Astrotrain needs a little ego-stroking? You decide. :) ) Down below, meanwhile, Jarro confronts Talaria, telling her to bow down and worship the true gods. Talaria maintains that Jarro will need more than one unconscious Cosmos to convince her.

Y'know...Talaria should really shut up while she's ahead, because no sooner are the words out of her mouth than Astrotrain comes plowing through the trees in train engine mode. The people scuttle out of the way as Astrotrain transforms to shuttle mode and, flanked by Starscream and Thrust, comes in for a landing in the little clearing. Astrotrain proclaims himself the Big Cheese of the gods and demands worship. And he gets it, too, especially because his next proclamation is that anyone who defies him will die. (Yeah...like anyone ever dies on this show... :) )

Later, Starscream and Thrust are hauling the still-unconscious Cosmos into the temple, setting him up as an idol where the stone god statue had stood at the beginning of the episode. Astrotrain removes the module that contains the energy data that Cosmos had and notes that there's this one little wire in his chest that, if reconnected, will make him all better...or at least conscious, at any rate. (OK...WHAT IS IT WITH THESE STUPID LITTLE WIRES?!!!! AAAAARRRRRGGGGH! [Deep breath] All right, I'm OK now. Sorry about that... ) Of course, unbeknownst to Astrotrain, Talaria is watching from an alcove above... Speaking of help, Thrust points out that Astrotrain used up most of his energy chasing Cosmos, so Thrust suggest that he call in Megatron. But Astrotrain doesn't like that idea very much. (After all, then it would be Megatron who would get to play god...) He insists that he's in control and that they'll only be there until he breaks Cosmos' code. Tossing Cosmos' data tapes into a compartment in his chest, he stalks off.

Later that night, Talaria pays Cosmos a visit. She reattaches the wire that Astrotrain had so helpfully pointed out to her and a panel on Cosmos chest pops out. On that panel is a little screen with Optimus Prime's mug on it. He demands to know what's going on. Talaria stutters that Cosmos is hurt. Optimus asks her what planet she's on. Talaria doesn't recognize that word (Of course not! For one thing, she's on a moon, not a planet. For another...Well, it's amazing that she recognizes any of the words, isn't it? :) ). On to Plan B, then. On Cosmos' little panel is a blinky button that when pressed will send a beacon to Earth. Optimus tells Talaria to push it. (MST's Dr. Forrester: "Push the button, Talaria." ) Talaria obeys.

Astrotrain, across the room, hears the beacon going off (Though amazingly he didn't hear any of the Optimus/Talaria conversation, nor did he see Talaria fiddling with Cosmos' innards. Not a very observant guy, that Astrotrain, eh?), and gets ticked. "She has led the Autobots here," he says, "but they will not find her alive." Starscream takes a shot at her and, predictably, misses. She climbs down her rope from the altar and tries to escape the temple, but Thrust blocks her way. Cosmos, meanwhile, revives and takes a shot at Starscream who falls from the altar, causing enough of a distraction to allow Talaria to escape. Astrotrain, in a fit of pique, shoots Cosmos, rendering him inactive. Again.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Omega Supreme's arrived on the scene. Which, of course, means that some Autobots are going on a joyride. Omega optimistically notes that it will take 97% of his energy to get to Titan (So that's where the other guys are! Could've fooled me... :) ) and once there he won't be able to transform. That's why some Autobots are going with him, Optimus tells him, to rustle up some energy and rescue Cosmos and his data. Optimus thinks he's going, but Red Alert, fearing for Optimus Prime's safety, puts the kibosh on that, pronto. That leaves Perceptor, who's the only one who can decipher Cosmos' energy data, and Jazz, who just likes "kicking Decepticon can," to go. (Goody! I love both of them and Jazz, in particular, hardly ever gets anything significant to do...) They board Omega Supreme, and they're off!

Back on Titan, Jarro shows the Decepticons a cavern filled with energy crystals (Which actually sort of remind me of the energy crystals shown all the time on Beast Wars. Neat! :) ) Starscream declares them a "perfect power source" while Astrotrain realizes that the crystals are what Cosmos discovered. One of Jarro's younger priests--the one in the black robes from the beginning of the episode--points out to Jarro that the crystals are "taboo," but Jarro points out that the Decepticons are gods themselves, so they of course can have 'em.

Meanwhile, Omega Supreme's arrived on the scene. Or actually, he comes crashing onto the scene... He plows into Titan and comes to rest teetering on the edge of one of the chasms Jarro mentioned. One more meter and he'd have plunged headlong into a sparking electrical sea. Jazz and Perceptor disembark and Jazz asserts that they'll pull Omega back from the edge but Omega notes that Jazz and Perceptor alone don't have the strength to do so. They need Cosmos, too. So Jazz says they'll find Cosmos and come back for Omega. He tells Omega not to move. Omega doesn't appreciate Jazz's wit. And, as the two other Autobots run off to embark on their mission, the face of the cliff upon which Omega is precariously perched begins to crumble. "Situation critical," Omega gloomily notes.

Meanwhile in the cavern with the crystals, the Decepticons have put the Titans to work gathering crystals for them...

Jazz and Perceptor aren't having much luck finding Cosmos...and then they come across a pissed-off Talaria, who shoots arrow at them and proclaims that as long as she lives, Titans will not worship false gods. "Gods?" Jazz echoes, confused. Perceptor notes that the Decepticons must have arrived first. So Jazz tells Talaria to just calm down and explain what's going on. (Ricky Ricardo: "Talaria, you got some 'splainin' to do!")

Apparently, they had a good chat because, next thing we know, Talaria's perched on Jazz's shoulder and they're heading into the temple to rescue Cosmos. "This is terrible!" Jazz proclaims, seeing Cosmos perched up on the altar. Perceptor, literal as usual, tells him that "Cosmos has been in worse predicaments." But that wasn't was Jazz meant. He's ticked because Cosmos is being worshipped as a god. He explains to Talaria that they're not gods, just "fancy machines." (Now there's the understatement of the millennium.)

Meanwhile, the Decepticons are arriving back in the temple after a long, hard day of slave-driving. (And they didn't even bring Soundwave the Master Slave Overseer with them!) They probably just want to grab a beer, stretch out in a recliner, and watch reruns of the The Simpsons, but those simple plans are ruined when they find Jazz, Perceptor, and Talaria up on the altar,gathered around Cosmos. A fight ensues, of course. Jazz takes out Starscream...with a rock? And Thrust runs to Astrotrain for help. Astrotrain orders the Titans to nail the "false gods" with the energy crystals. They attach them to arrows and chuck them at the Autobots with catapults even when Jazz proclaims that they're on the Titans' side. A blast from the catapults sends Jazz and Perceptor plunging off of the mountain and, afterwards,Talaria wanders outside looking for them and gets nabbed by Astrotrain, who decides that, as a "heretic," she will make a fine and fitting sacrifice to the gods.

Starscream and Thrust, meanwhile, are searching for the Autobots, but can't find them. Starscream asserts that the crystals scared them off. (HAH! Yeah, right, Screamer. You go right on believing that, ya big doofus! :) ) Jazz and Perceptor, watching the Decepticons from a hiding place on the ground, make plans to find the crystals.

Back at the crystal mine, the overworked Titans are dropping like flies, pissing off Astrotrain. Jarro asserts that his fellow Titans are "lazy insects" and asks if he should punish them. (Jarro: Huh? Huh? Can I please punish them? Huh, can I?) But 'Train spoils Jarro's sadistic fun by pointing that the impending sacrifice of Talaria will be all the motivation the lazy insects need. Talaria, confined in a birdcage-like affair hanging from a tree, doesn't look very happy with that idea...

Jazz and Perceptor, meanwhile, have found the cavern full of crystals. Perceptor transforms to 'scope mode and notes that the crystals are highly unstable and composed of energy. Jazz notes that it's not a good thing if the Decepticons have the crystals. He decides they have to use some to refuel Omega Supreme (You know, the guy who's been teetering on the edge of death for the last 10 minutes or so of this episode... :) ) He proceeds to bash at them with a rock (He's got a thing for rocks in this episode...), but Perceptor stops him, noting that if one crystal blows, it could set off a chain reaction that will destroy them all. And then three Titans show up out of nowhere, one of them being Jarro's little black-robed underpriest who notes that they've faithfully worshiped the robots but all they bring is death and destruction (Hey, isn't that what all gods do???) Jazz patiently explains (again) to the Titans that the Autobots aren't gods, nor did they ever claim to be. And Perceptor tells them that Astrotrain (gasp!) lied to them. One of the other Titans, a big guy with lots of feathers on his head and very little clothing on his body, notes that if they'd listened to Talaria they wouldn't be having problems and she wouldn't be sacrificed. "Sacrificed!" the Autobots respond, shocked. New mission time! Perceptor gets to go refuel Omega Supreme while Jazz gets to go rescue the Fair Maiden of Titan.

Jazz proceeds to climb up the cavern wall to the underside of the floor of the temple. He slips, falls, but manages to grab onto the edge of the crater containing a pool of electric lava. We leave him dangling there while Perceptor, meanwhile, approaches the also- dangling Omega Supreme, who's still teetering on a crumbling cliff face. Jauntily tossing a bag of crystals over his shoulder. Perceptor leaps from the stable part of the cliff face across to the broken-off part upon which Omega is sitting. He almost doesn't clear the distance and ends up dangling himself for a moment off of the broken piece of the cliff face by one hand, the other hand still clutching his bag o' crystals. Perceptor's impact causes further vibration and as he pulls himself up onto the broken piece of cliff it begins to pull further away from the main cliff...

Back at the temple, all is in readiness for the sacrifice. Talaria's spread-eagled and tied down to a sacrificial altar in the temple by each of her limbs and Astrotrain tells Jarro to begin the sacrifice. Jarro, standing at the head of the altar raises a nasty thing that looks like a giant three-pronged thumbtack with a handle over his head... Jazz emerges out of a hole in the floor of the temple and looks on, aghast...

Meanwhile, Omega's beginning to slide off of the broken cliff and into the ocean of electric lava. "Destruction inevitable" he cheerily notes while Perceptor loads his bag o' crystals into a compartment in the side of Omega's rocket form. Just in the nick of time, as the broken piece of cliff crumbles, Omega's rockets engage and, with poor Perceptor clinging for dear life onto him, Omega Supreme is off and flying!

Back at the sacrifice, Jazz shoots the nasty-looking thumbtack out of Jarro's hands, spoiling the party. "The lady ain't got her heart in it," he notes. (Hee! :) ) A fight ensues, of course, but Jazz frees Talaria from her bonds, gathers her up into his manly arms, and then ducks behind the altar for cover. Jazz fires at the Decepticons when he can, but he's outnumbered. Not for long though, for Omega Supreme arrives outside the temple. He transforms and Perceptor falls to the ground and staggers around dizzily, poor guy. :) Omega, meanwhile, plunges his claw "hand" through the wall of the temple, which sends Starscream and Thrust packing and shoots at Astrotrain with his other hand. Astrotrain dives through the hole in the floor, plummets down so that he's dangling from the same ledge from which Jazz had been dangling a bit ago, over some electric lava in the crystal cavern below the temple.

Meanwhile Perceptor, apparently having recovered from his fit of dizziness, runs onto the scene and asks if Jazz and Talaria are all right. Jazz reports in the positive but notes that they need to do something about Cosmos, who's still hanging out up on yonder altar...

Down in the crystal cavern, meanwhile, Jarro flocks to Astrotrain, asking who the false gods are while Starscream and Thrust join the party as well. Thrust notes that they can't fight Omega Supreme and Astrotrain agrees. So he decides to blow up the crystal cavern, instead. He fires a shot at some of the crystals, starting the chain reaction, and then transforms. Starscream and Thrust scuttle aboard and Jarro asks what he's supposed to do. Astrotrain's answer? "Die. Like the worm you are!" (Gotta love that Astrotrain! :) ) He's outta there!

Meanwhile, the exploding crystals destroy the temple and the entire little island in the sea of electric lava upon which the Titans had been living proceeds to explode. The little black-robed subpriest begs the Autobots to spare them and, in return, the Titans will worship them. "We ain't gods!" Jazz exasperatedly exclaims. But they will save the Titans, of course (It's in their job descriptions, don'tchaknow...) Time to move! The island next door looks nice, so that's where the Autobots shuttle the Titans to, using Omega Supreme's track as a bridge between the exploding island and the stable one. The Titans scurry across, Perceptor tosses Cosmos over his shoulder and goes across, and Jazz and Talaria bring up the rear just as the other island completely explodes.

And all is well on Titan. The natives are rebuilding, having gained a new home thanks to the Autobots, and Perceptor fixes Cosmos, who stands up and...stretches and yawns? Yup! To sum up, the black-robed priest notes they have much to be thankful for... Yup, I'd say that all's well...assuming Omega Supreme has enough energy to get them all home, that is...

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Nightwind's Unsolicited Opinions

When I watch this episode, I think about only one thing...OK, maybe two things...Well, three things, actually...OK, maybe four things. Oh, hell! I'll just take 'em one at a time as I think of 'em...

One: I think about...Star Trek? Yes, indeedy! Why? Well, because Star Trek has done this very same plot at least once (and often more than once!) in every one of its four television series incarnations. It's your standard Star Trekkian "technologically-advanced but otherwise thoroughly mortal Federation people happen upon a less technologically-advanced culture, and the less-advanced culture ends up thinking that the Federation people are gods" kind of plot. Star Trek did it about a billion times. The twist here? Well, it's the villainous Decepticons who are thought of as gods first. And they--rather than protest vehemently like the good Federation people or the upstanding Autobots would do--take advantage of the situation. (I still can't figure out why they do, but they do! :) ) I think Star Trek did this plot often because Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek was notoriously anti-religion, at least when it came to the theistic, Judeo-Christian religions. As to why it was used here in "The God Gambit"...? Dunno! Somehow I doubt that it was done as an homage to Star Trek, however. :) (Though perhaps Buzz Dixon, the writer of "The God Gambit," was a Trekker...? Who knows?) But whatever the reason, I find it amusing that a TF episode closely mirrors something that might have been done on Star Trek, my other main fandom...

Two: I think about Starscream being grossly out of character. He is! I mean, think about it. You have Starscream, who will loudly proclaim his superiority in just about anything if given even a hint of a chance to do so. And you have a population of people who likes to worship technologically-advanced beings that they don't understand. I mean, are those two meant for each other or what? I can easily see Screamer doing a Waspinator here--lounging back on a throne, being fanned by worshipful Titans, beer in hand, sighing, "Ahhhh, happy at last!" And, unlike Waspinator, I can see Screamer, while being worshipped, plotting a way to use those energy crystals to destroy Megatron so that he can have control of everything, not just Titan. :) But what does he do? He just calmly lets Astrotrain play god and he lets Astrotrain order him around as if Starscream was but a green recruit? What?! That is just totally and completely unlike him! He is so uncharacteristically subdued in this episode that I've come to think that Starscream's presence in the episode was just one huge animation and sound error. :) (Or maybe he'd just undergone a lobotomy or something...) In any case, I'm thinking that in this episode Starscream really should have been...Thundercracker, who's quite content to just shut up and follow where someone else leads. That description most certainly does not describe Starscream. The fact that he's acting this weirdly throughout out the episode is just...jarring to me. Perhaps it bothers me only because Screamer's my favorite character of them all so I particularly notice when he's acting cuckoo. Maybe it's just because Starscream, of all the G1 characters, is one of the few who generally has a consistent characterization, so it's bothersome to me when an episode breaks that consistency. Whatever the case, the fact that Starscream's out of character here is distracting to me. It pulls my attention away from the third thing I think about while watching this episode. And that is...

Three: I think, "Oh my god! Jazz has more than three lines in this episode!" It's true! Jazz is an Autobot who's always around and who has a very neat personality (Not to mention a wonderful and unique voice! :) ), but he never really gets anything significant to do. Yeah, he fires off one-liners occasionally. He shows up to play loud music and, once, to boogie down. :) Or he gets to get kicked by Ironhide when he gets momentarily stuck in vehicle mode. In short, he gets to do neat little things that take up usually about one minute of screen time in an episode, if that. He never gets to be the focus of an episode...except here in "The God Gambit." And not only does he get to be the focus, but he gets to be a knight in shining armor for a damsel in distress. That's pretty nifty, from a fangirl point of view. :) In any event, I love Jazz and, as far as I'm concerned, he never gets to do enough in the cartoon. I was enormously gratified that he survived the movie...but then Scatman Crothers died shortly thereafter, so Jazz never got to do anything in Season Three, sadly (Unless you count his appearance as the mysterious "Unka Spenka" in "Five Faces of Darkness." :) ). After all, there ain't no replacin' that voice! :) But here Jazz gets to do all kinds of stuff. So, too, does Perceptor, another favorite Autobot of mine, though he doesn't get as much to do here as he gets in, say, "Microbots" or "Cosmic Rust."

Four: I think, "Ain't no way this is Titan!" :) 'Scuse me while I transform to "Geek Mode..." OK, let's talk about Titan for a bit. The real Titan, I mean. It's not that I have a problem with a fanciful interpretation of a real place, mind you; it's just that I like to set the record straight. If you do not wish to be edified about the wonderful and mysterious little planetoid/moon known as Titan, feel free to skip this bit of blabber. I won't be offended. For those of you who might care, though...Here's the facts, as we know them, about Titan, facts that will make it abundantly clear that it would not harbor a race a people who like to flash some skin while wearing lots of feathers... :) (It's the Planet of the Drag Queens! :) )

In any case, as I said, I have no problem with fancful interpretations of real places...but wouldn't it have been just as easy to make Talaria's home an unknown moon of an unknown planet? That way, I wouldn't have to be bothered by all these contradictions... :) Of course, if I wasn't such an astronomy geek they wouldn't bother me in the first place...Oh, never mind! :)

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Great Moments

This episode contains one of my favorite little exchanges of all of the Transformers TV series. That would be:

Jazz: (To Omega Supreme, who can't transform and is teetering on the edge of a crumbling cliff, in imminent danger of falling into a lethal sea of electric lava): "We'll find Cosmos and come back for you. Just don't move!"
Omega Supreme: "Sarcasm not appreciated."

Who says Omega Supreme doesn't have a sense of humor? :) Even while teetering on the brink of death, he can still crack a one-liner...Of course, Omega Supreme invariably says nothing but one-liners, though usually not of the humorous variety... :)

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Totally Arbitrary Overall Rating, Just For the Heck of It

I have some serious mixed feelings about this episode. On the one hand, It's Star Trek-reminiscent plot should by all rights annoy me, though I can't figure out why it doesn't. In fact, it amuses me for some perverse reason. On the other hand, what annoys me most is actually Starscream, who's just so glaringly and jarringly OOC. It just ruins the episode for me, to tell you the truth... But on still another hand (I have three hands. Didn't you know that? :) ), I love the fact that Astrotrain and Jazz (and Perceptor, though to a much lesser extent) are the stars of this episode and the fact that there is absolutely no Megatron and very little Optimus Prime in the episode. (In case you hadn't noticed, I pretty much hate both of the leaders. :) ) Combine all that love and hate together...and the love comes out marginally ahead, I suppose. So let's give it a...5.5.