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Golden Disk (Voyager)

2024-09-18T23:34:34Z

Will Keaton:

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[[File:Megatron GoldenDisk.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|DJ Meggy spins the hits.]]
The '''Golden Disk''' from the [[Voyager spacecraft|''Voyager'' probe]] is a recurring object throughout the Beast Wars. It plays a major role in the escalation of the conflict between the [[Maximal]]s and the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and leads to the death of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]. It is eventually destroyed, but the Predacon leader, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], recovers one of the shards and shows a [[Ravage (G1)|Cybertronian government agent]] a piece of a message that was enscripted into it by his [[Megatron (G1)|former boss]].

{{bigquote|A seemingly insignificant scrap of metal made by [[human|a small, fragile species hardly worth mentioning]]... and yet this object holds the key to the conquest of the whole of Cybertron. For over three hundred cycles, the Golden Disk has carried the mystery of incredible power under its shimmering surface. I can tell you the tales of a thousand Maximals and Predacons who have hunted this dark relic. Every story had the same ending... ''destruction''.|[[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]|"[[Theft of the Golden Disk]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
Sometime within roughly a decade of when the Transformers aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] awoke in the eruption of [[Mount St. Hilary]], the humans of planet Earth launched a primitive robotic spacecraft to study the outer planets in their solar system. Attached to this spacecraft was a gold disk which contained information about Earth. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the [[Decepticon leader|leader]] of the [[Decepticon]]s, acquired it at some point and encoded an additional message on the disk.

Megatron's message ordered any Decepticons who might, in the future, come across it to use [[unspace|transwarp]] technology to travel to the past {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} and use the [[Teletraan I]] codes encoded on the disk to access the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' while its occupants were inert and kill [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. This, in turn, would change history so that the Decepticons could win the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

At some point between Decepticon Megatron adding his message to the disk and the beginning of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], the spacecraft holding the disk—or perhaps only the disk—fell into the hands of the [[Transformer]]s. It was seemingly considered a precious artifact, even though the general population of Maximals had no idea what it really was (and even some Predacons—like the reformatted Decepticon Ravage—didn't have a clue). The [[Maximal Elder]]s were presumably aware of the Disk's origin.

The group of Predacons led by Megatron stole the Golden Disk; Megatron claimed that the disk held the location of a vast store of energon, with which the Predacon commander believed he could reignite the Great War against the Maximals. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

[[File:Dinobot GoldenDisk.jpg|left|thumb|"Well look at that. I've ''actually'' talked till I'm blue in the face."]]
[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] broke into the [[Darksyde (BW)|Predacon base]] and stole the Golden Disk. He then climbed to a high peak where he pontificated to himself about the potential power the wielder of the Golden Disk could hold, and the potential danger that came with it. On a personal level, he felt that it could either confirm or destroy his own reason for being. He needed to believe himself the master of his own fate, and if history could not be changed, then he could only believe himself a deterministic pawn. He eventually decided that the most prudent thing to do with an item of infinite power was to shove it under a large rock. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}}

Later, he noticed that the Predacons had been setting up installations around their base in a pattern that matched the shape of one of the symbols on the disk. Realizing that Megatron still meant to alter history, Dinobot rejoined him to discover the truth of his own destiny. He led Megatron to the location of the Golden Disk and presented it to him. Shortly afterwards, Dinobot defected to the Maximals once again, but Megatron escaped with the Golden Disk. {{storylink|Maximal, No More}}

Not long afterwards, Megatron began testing history's mutability, discovering through the images contained in the disk that he had the power to alter the timeline. The Predacons attacked the valley from which humanity's ancestors would emerge, but Dinobot launched a one-man berserker attack on the Predacons, single-handedly defeating them and shattering the Golden Disk with his last bit of energy. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

Megatron was captured by Covert Agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for violations of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], but revealed that he still possessed a lone fragment of the Golden Disk, which contained a message encoded by the original Megatron. He played it for Ravage, convincing the former Decepticon to release the Predacon and join forces with him. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
[[File:Dw theft.jpg|thumb|"With this little bauble I will write a new chapter in the history of... Wait, this isn't... DAMN YOU, JOE NG!"]]
As a Predacon and Dinobot were building up their band of rebels, they infiltrated the Vector Sigma chamber. This irked Dinobot, who didn't understand why they were wasting time "raiding an old library". But his leader was enraptured by his find: A Golden Disk filled with information on individual [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s, the history of Cybertron, details about other planets, and cutting-edge technology in the early 21st century. He said it was the key to his future, and after viewing it, he declared himself "Megatron". {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye #8}}
{{note|Due to an artistic error, the ''Voyager'' Golden Disk in this story is mistakenly drawn as the [[Golden Disk (Vok)|Vok Golden Disk]].}}

====''Theft of the Golden Disk''====
[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] was tasked by his mentor [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] to retrieve a [[Data-Con]] that would reveal the location of the Golden Disk. Megatron pulled a double-cross on Cryotek, leaving him to the [[Maximal Command Security Force]] while he uncovered the Disk's location, and went to claim it for himself. {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}}

====''Dawn of Future's Past''====
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{{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Hall of Fame'' bios====
The [[Hall of Records]] was the site of the Golden Disk's theft. {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame|Waspinator's 2011 bio}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:WFC-Earthrise-Megatron-sees-Voyager-Golden-Disk.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
Though no one knew of its origin, the Golden Disk was eventually used by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] to record his memoirs throughout the war for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Comprising of all his strategies, secrets, and the battles he fought, the record only responded to his unique [[energy signature|energon signature]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} Megatron also chronicled his hunt for the [[AllSpark]] on [[Earth]], {{storylink|Kingdom episode 3}} including when he failed during an encounter with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], thereby losing the war. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}} After killing Optimus Prime, Megatron lamented on the Golden Disk that they should have worked together, though shortly after he was found by [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] and painfully reformatted into servitude as [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}}

Using the [[Dead Universe]] to [[time travel|move through time]] and prevent his enslavement under Unicron, {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}} Galvatron traveled back to when Megatron entered the Dead Universe. After being found by Unicron, Galvatron attempted to turn over the Golden Disk in another desperate chance to change the past, but it disappeared as he did. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}} In his proper time, Galvatron, with the Golden Disk in tow, passed by the [[Voyager spacecraft|''Voyager'' spacecraft]] and swore to Unicron that he would find a way to break free from the Chaos Bringer's servitude. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}}

[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Ep1-Predacon-Megatron-shows-Golden-Disk.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2]]
The Golden Disk eventually wound up in the possession of the [[Maximal]]s. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 2}} Galvatron manipulated [[Megatron (BW)|Predacon Megatron]] and his band of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] thieves to steal the disk and take it to Megatron in the past, in the hopes that they could change time and avert his servitude to Unicron. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}} Predacon Megatron later decrypted a few minutes of the Golden Disk and retraced the original Megatron's steps back to Earth {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} but was chased by the Maximals aboard the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', seeking to prevent. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}}

Following the Predacon's success, the original Megatron used the Disk to prepare his troops against an Autobot/Maximal assault but the foreknowledge proved for naught as his forces' unruliness allowed their foes to escape. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 2}}

[[File:KingdomEp5-GoldenDisk.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]

Using the Golden Disk, Megatron began closing on the resting place of the Allspark {{storylink|Kingdom episode 3}} and to later get the drop on Starscream's latest bout of treachery. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}} Nonetheless, Starscream had managed to draw energon from Megatron allowing Blackarachnia to build a device that would read the Golden Disk via the spilled sample. Realizing Blackarachnia had duped him, Starscream stole the Disk reader and accessed its contents. As he laughed at seeing the record of Megatron being turned into Galvatron and enslaved by Unicron, the Chaos Bringer began speaking to Starscream through the Disk. Traumatized by what he'd heard, Starscream flew off to the ''Ark'' and gave the Golden Disk to [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], trusting the Autobot to make better use of its contents to save Cybertron. To Starscream's horror, Bumblebee proceeded to boldly shatter the Disk, preferring to confront the uncertainty of the future with courage. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}}
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material===
[[File:Kingdom-Golden-Disk-cardback.jpg|thumb]]
{{main|Source:Golden Disk destinies}}
The ''Voyager'' Golden Disk held the power to change the universe forever. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref> It carried three destinies each for the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], and only one for the otherworldly [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Source:Golden Disk destinies|''Kingdom'' Golden Disk destinies}}

===2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic===
The Golden Disk was originally attached to an alien space probe. After making enough trips through time for the Disk to be saturated in unspace energy, the probe crashed on an asteroid in the [[Upsilonus Belt]] where it was found by [[Landquake (BW)|Landquake]] who brought it to the [[Wheeljack Ministry of Science]]. The scientists quickly decoded the surface files of the Disk's planet of origin only to discover more heavily encrypted ones. After decrypting a single file, that revealed the location of a planet rich with [[energon]], the scientists chose to downplay the significance of what they'd found. Disagreeing, [[Reptilion]] leaked word of the Disk to the Predacon separatist [[Megatron (BW)|Galavar]], hoping that the rogue could steal the Disk, decode it and deliver its contents to the whole of Cybertron. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1}}

Once the theft was complete, Galavar chose to rename himself "Megatron", showing off the relic to [[Tripredacus Council]] as he declared his defection. The separatists fled aboard [[Darksyde (BW)|a stolen warship]] which was engaged by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', both crafts crash landing on another world in another time. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 1}}

Confirming the large bounty of energon to be had, Megatron devoted himself to decrypting the remainder of the Golden Disk's files to no avail. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 2}} After a battle with the Maximals who caused the crash, Megatron managed to decode another of the Disk's files, which turned out to be a message from his future self. Before he could hear anything of value, the file deleted itself as it was irreversibly corrupted. {{storylink|Pod Part 1}}

After welcoming [[Razorbeast]] into their ranks, the Maximals attacked the ''Darksyde'' to claim the Golden Disk, {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1}} interrupting Megatron's latest attempt to decode it. Leaving his chambers unguarded, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] eventually snuck in and found the Disk. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 2}}

Removing the Disk though caused Megatron's quarters to lockdown. As Rattrap waited for rescue, he copied the Disk's files before Optimus and [[Nyx]] saved him. As the three fled, Megatron trapped them in a [[force field]]. Unfazed, Optimus threatened to destroy the Golden Disk, highlighting the ''Darksyde''{{'}}s destroyed [[Transwarp Drive]] and bluffing that the ''Axalon'' was wired to self-destruct, making the Predacons unable to steal another version of it. Unwilling to lose the Disk, Megatron agreed to Primal's terms and released the Maximals. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 3}}

When Megatron rematerialized following the death of the Vok, he reminded himself to record the warning on the Golden Disk so that his past self would see it. {{storylink|The End (BW)|The End}}
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==Toys & Merchandise==
===''Timelines'' (2006)===
[[File:Timelinestoy-RattrapDoFP.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Golden Cyber Disk Key Power!]]
*'''Dawn of Future's Past'''
:Most of the exclusive toys from [[BotCon 2006]] come with a Golden Disk key. It is a [[redeco]]ed [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] [[Cyber Key]]. It is meant to represent the Golden Disk as it appears in "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]".
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===''Robot Heroes'' (2008)===
[[File:Robotheroessilverboltmegatron.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|"Little bauble," indeed, yesss.]]
*'''Silverbolt vs Megatron'''

:[[Transmetal]] Megatron comes with the disk in his tail-claw projector device.
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===''Masterpiece''===
*'''Dinobot (Beast Wars)''' (2018)

:''Masterpiece'' Dinobot comes with the disk as an accessory.
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===''War for Cybertron: Kingdom''===
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Titan-Ark-Golden-Disks.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Ark''' (Titan Class, [[2021]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-K30'''

:''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' [[Ark (G1)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Autobot Ark]] comes with both the Vok and ''Voyager'' Golden Disks. Deviating from its cartoon appearance, the Vok disc features the ''Voyager'' disk's "Sounds of Earth" design on its rear, instead of more alien symbols. The accessories can only be wielded by several figures with poseable hands/open-palms.

{{anchor|Terrorsaur}}
*'''Terrorsaur''' (Golden Disk Collection, [[2022]])
**''Chapter 4: The Terrorfying {{sic}} Conclusion''
**''Accessories'': Golden Disk (Vok), blaster, arm blades

:''Kingdom'' [[Terrorsaur (BW)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Terrorsaur]] includes a Golden Disk, identical to the Vok disk from the ''Kingdom'' Autobot Ark (complete with the erroneous "Sounds of Earth" reverse design from the Voyager disc) but with darker paint. The product description refers to it as the ''Voyager'' Golden Disk,<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TQSZQCX Amazon] product description: "Includes a Golden Disk (Voyager) accessory and his blaster accessory."</ref> so maybe this time it's the Vok side which is in error?
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===''ReAction''===
*'''Hyper Steel Megatron''' (2023)
**''Accessories'': Golden Disk

: This redeco of ''[[ReAction]]'' BW Megatron features translucent purple plastic and a new Voyager disk accessory. This piece was [[exclusive]] to [[Target]].

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===Diamond Select===
*'''Beast Wars Megatron''' (2023)

:Produced by [[Diamond Select Toys]], this "Milestone" statue depicts [[Megatron_(BW)/toys#Milestone|Beast Wars Megatron]] in his season 1 body, holding the Golden Disk. Designed by [[Mark Wong]], only 1,000 pieces were produced, with an MSRP of $500. However, the statue never saw release.
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===''Beast Wars Again''===
*'''Gyakushin no Taiketsu''' (Multi-pack, 2024)

: Released as part of the ''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers Again|Beast Wars Again]]'' line, the "Treacherous Showdown" (逆心の対決) set contains [[Tarantulas (BW)/toys#Beast Wars Again|Tarans]], [[Dinobot (BW)/toys#Beast Wars Again|Dinobot]] and an unpainted Voyager Golden Disk reused from Masterpiece [[Dinobot (BW)/toys#Masterpiece|Dinobot]].
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==Notes==
[[File:Statue rockandrollhalloffame.jpg|thumb|A giant statue outside the [[Cybertron Archives|archives]] where it was stored includes <s>a copy</s> copies.]]

*"[[Fires of the Past]]" shows a statue of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] holding two golden disks outside the [[Cybertron Archives]]. Neither the Optimus Prime statue nor the golden disks in its hands are mentioned in the script. However, writer [[Bob Skir]] suggested that they were either the disks from the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, or that Optimus won them in the 2,395,989th Annual Cybertronian spelling bee.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080614012630/http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Tue_12_Oct_1999.html Q&A from Bigbot's "bobskir.com"] (archive copy)</ref>

===The real Golden Disk===
[[File:Eg2-goldendisk.jpg|upright=0.99|thumb|left|Ow -8 *..]]
The Golden Disk that appears in ''Beast Wars'' is based on a real object: In [[1977]], [[NASA]] launched two spacecraft called ''Voyager 1'' and ''Voyager 2'', which flew by our planetary system's four gas giants. (Jupiter and Saturn were visited by both craft, Uranus and Neptune only by ''Voyager 2''.) The ''Pioneer 10'' and ''11'' spacecraft which preceded them had carried copies of a plaque depicting human beings and showing the location of Earth with respect to several highly-visible pulsars. For the ''Voyager'' mission, a more sophisticated message was composed.

The "disk" consists of a cover or canister—on which a set of pictograms are found—and a phonograph record inside the canister. The record, titled "The Sounds of Earth", has a "data" portion and a sound portion. In the data portion are over a hundred encoded images including photographs of the Earth and its lifeforms, as well as drawings of human biology and reproduction. The audio portion includes sounds of natural environments on Earth, wildlife, human voices, and music. The pictograms on the record's cover explain how to play the disc and decode the images.

As portrayed in ''Beast Wars'', the Golden Disk seems to be an amalgam of the cover and the record itself. It appears to be at least a few centimeters thick and has the cover's pictograms on one side, but the record grooves and title "The Sounds of Earth" on the other. The indication is that the cover is one-sided, and we are seeing the record through the empty rear, as later episodes would present the disc in its real-life, thin, record form.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Golden Disk''' (ゴールデンディスク ''Gōruden Disuku'')

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA's web site on the continuing ''Voyager'' mission]
*[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html The message on the actual disks]

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June Darby

2023-07-18T01:07:02Z

Will Keaton:

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:''June Darby is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:MetalAttraction-JuneDarby.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|She wants to know how you got the beans above the franks.]]

Ever since her husband left her, '''June Darby''' has been raising her [[Jack Darby|sixteen-year-old son]] alone. When she's not spending time as a nurse at the [[Jasper Hospital|local hospital]], June's spending time being overprotective towards her son, who hangs out with warring robots from outer space. Who can blame her?

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Markie Post]] (English), [[Hitomi Nabatame]] (Japanese)|[[Yan Lizhen]] (Chinese), [[Carolina Tak]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Katrin Zimmermann]] (German), [[So-yeong Lee]] (Korean), [[Dulce Guerrero]] (Latin-American Spanish, season 1), [[Sarah Souza]] (Latin-American Spanish, seasons 2 & 3), [[Carolina Tak]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Cecília Lemes]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Tarja Alexander]] (Finnish), [[Élisabeth Guinand]] (French), [[Lorella De Luca]] (Italian)}}

At some point, June's husband left her and their son. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

June called her son, [[Jack Darby|Jack]], after his shift at work finished. She asked if he was going to the dance, but he said no. She told him to be careful, but Jack had to go, as he had [[Arcee (WFC)|something on his mind]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} June returned home from work late in the evening to find Jack standing with a [[Arcee (WFC)|motorcycle]] in their garage. She wondered how he had paid for the motorcycle and expressed her concern for his safety, but Jack was able to convince her that he was old enough and responsible enough to operate the vehicle. She made it very clear that he always had to wear his helmet.

Early the next morning, the motorcycle told Jack to leave a note for his mom when he left the house, to keep her from worrying. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[File:JunemeetstheAutobots.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|[[Metal Attraction|Love at first sight?]]]]
Hearing rumors that Jack had been racing his motorcycle and complaints that he'd been neglecting his work and school, June confronted him after curfew and grounded him from using the motorcycle. The next day, she took a break from the [[Jasper Hospital|hospital]] to go home and make Jack some dinner, but found the garage empty. She blew up at Jack, even though the motorcycle had somehow reappeared in the garage, and he spun some wild story about robots from space. Refusing to believe him, June returned to the hospital. Later that night, as she was leaving work, she was grabbed and bundled into a vehicle by some [[MECH|masked goons]]. She recovered consciousness to find herself in a cocoon dangling from a building, while Jack tried to rescue her from a [[Airachnid (Prime)|menacing robot]]. Then Jack's motorcycle turned up in robot form and fought the other robot. After [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] came to their rescue, he tried to explain that Jack was interning for him, but June didn't buy it. Jack introduced her to Arcee, and they all went to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|base]] to meet the rest of the Autobots. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

June began regularly dropping by the Autobot base to check up on the kids, much to their regret. When Jack and Arcee were preparing for a routine maintenance check, June's overprotective questioning drove Arcee batty, and the Autobot instead opted to go out on a mission with Bulkhead. June stayed at the base, and when Arcee told an errant Miko to return there, Miko's loud comment that Arcee was as bad as Jack's mom could be clearly heard over the comm link. Taken aback, June asked if she was really that bad, and Jack declined to comment. On Arcee's return, June felt compelled to apologize for her earlier behavior. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}} While exploring a [[stripped energon mine]], Arcee suggested Jack not inform his mother about being allowed to go into a potentially-dangerous area. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}

After Raf was injured in a Decepticon attack, Jack called in his mom to try and help. June did her best to stabilize the boy, but said that they'd need to get him to the hospital. [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] pointed out that the doctors there wouldn't know how to treat Dark Energon contamination, but he quickly came up with a treatment of his own. After Ratchet infused Raf with energon, June checked his pulse and confirmed that it was stabilizing. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

[[File:OneShallRise1-Bumblebeestorm.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]

Following the rescue of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]], June informed him that she was taking Raf to the hospital, and also taking Jack and Miko with her, as the Autobots' war was no place for children. To her disappointment, both Jack and Miko refused to leave with her, so she departed in her car with Raf. They hadn't gone far when the car was almost struck by lightning and then almost pulled into a tornado, but [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] managed a last-minute save and took them back to base. June was glad to see Jack again, but told him he was grounded. She stuck around while the Autobots realized that the chaos god [[Unicron]] was at the center of the Earth, but realized that no one had any idea what Unicron would do next. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

The humans listened as the Autobots battled giant stone Unicrons, and as Megatron arrived to offer to help the Autobots defeat the Chaos Bringer himself. June was horrified that Optimus was even considering letting Megatron near the children, but Prime assured her they would keep everyone as safe as possible from him. The humans hid as Megatron arrived, but after Raf ran out to try to confront the Decepticon leader, June had to lead him back to safety. The humans all watched the Autobots and Megatron step through the GroundBridge into [[Earth's core]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

[[File:OneShallRise3-hug.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|"Ok, you can let go now." "You smell like strawberries." "No, really. You can let go now."]]
After the TV went dead, June tried to distract the kids from the impending end of the world by suggesting they play a game. She took cover underneath Ratchet as the ground shook, and when it turned out that Prime's team were all OK, she found herself being hugged by Fowler. She and Fowler stood by with the kids as the Autobots returned through the GroundBridge with the news that Optimus had become amnesiac. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Ratchet determined that they needed to use the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] which Optimus had entrusted Jack with to restore Optimus's memory. June was resistant to the idea of Jack going to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but was told that Jack was the only one who would be able to use the key. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} She turned out to see him off as he left for Cybertron. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} While they monitored Jack's progress, she was able to give him encouragement. She later welcomed him back when he returned with the Autobots and the restored Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:DarkestHour-June.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|There goes the neighborhood...]]

Unable to find Jack, she contacted Ratchet to see if her son was at the Autobot base, and got an abrupt response from the Autobot. After a huge wave of energy hit near Jasper, she headed out in her car, only to come under attack from a [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]. Fowler rescued her and they watched in horror as the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' opened fire on the Autobot base, destroying it. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

June joined the medical personnel at the base Fowler retreated to, but had no knowledge of the safety of those in the base until she got a text message from Jack. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} She was present when Fowler was contacted by Ratchet, though the Autobot had no news of Jack. She accompanied Fowler in his jet to the ''[[Harbinger]]'' where she was finally reunited with her son. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} June and the kids stayed behind as the Autobots assaulted [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]] and later joined them at new new base in [[Hangar E]]. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

[[File:PlusOne-notdating.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|I can't believe I get shipped with you, I'm like half your age!]]
June paid a visit to Fowler to ask about medical supplies, and ended up being talked into helping him retrieve a [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] relic from a museum. The pickup went without a hitch, but then the pair ran into [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]], who promptly grabbed them and the Predacon bone. As the Decepticon proved unable to contact his ship to arrange pickup, June and Fowler were able to escape into a rail yard, in which June hid the Predacon bone on a departing train. The furious Knock Out took them both with him when he pursued the train, only releasing them when Arcee and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] joined the chase. Luckily Wheeljack caught the two humans, and returned them to base safe and sound, where Jack was alarmed to see that they'd taken a shine to each other. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

Following the defeat of the Decepticons, June turned out to farewell the Autobots from Earth. She had to put her foot down when Fowler announced he was making the three kids Unit:E agents. {{storylink|Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock}}
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===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
Much to Mrs. Darby's annoyance, her son elected to stay up late playing video games with Raf rather than get some sleep before school. She figured a power outage would send her son to bed, but when the lights came back on, he just kept right on playing. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.18|Power Outage}}

===''Legends'' comic===
June was one of the many women brought to the [[Legends World]] by [[Tigatron]] using the [[10.2 ultra-drill|ultra-drill]] in an attempt to get women who liked him better than [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. It did not work out, as all of the women brought over eventually swooned over Springer. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 19|Bonus Edition Vol. 19}}

==Notes==
* June is named after [[Jeff Kline]]'s mother June and daughter Darby.<ref>"Darkness Rising, Part 2" commentary</ref>
* She was included in a brief scene inserted into "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]", for the script reading at [[BotCon 2011]].
* June Darby's [[license plate]] is "RPI-437".
* Her car resembles a [[w:Ford Crown Victoria|Ford Crown Victoria]].
* It seems that her idea of a good, wholesome meal includes organic tofu.
* According to her son, June is lactose intolerant.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''June Darby''' (ジューン・ダービー ''Jūn Dābī'')

==References==
<references />

{{DEFAULTSORT:Darby, June}}
[[Category:Fiction-only characters]]
[[Category:Legends humans]]
[[Category:Prime humans]]

Golden Disk (Voyager)

2021-12-04T23:50:40Z

Will Keaton:

{{disambig3|Golden Disk}}
{{featured}}
[[File:Megatron GoldenDisk.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|DJ Meggy spins the hits.]]
The '''Golden Disk''' from the [[Voyager spacecraft|''Voyager'' probe]] is a recurring object throughout the Beast Wars. It plays a major role in the escalation of the conflict between the [[Maximal]]s and the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and leads to the death of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]. It is eventually destroyed, but the Predacon leader, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], recovers one of the shards and shows a [[Ravage (G1)|Cybertronian government agent]] a piece of a message that was enscripted into it by his [[Megatron (G1)|former boss]].

{{bigquote|A seemingly insignificant scrap of metal made by [[human|a small, fragile species hardly worth mentioning]]... and yet this object holds the key to the conquest of the whole of Cybertron. For over three hundred cycles, the Golden Disk has carried the mystery of incredible power under its shimmering surface. I can tell you the tales of a thousand Maximals and Predacons who have hunted this dark relic. Every story had the same ending... ''destruction''.|[[Cryotek_(Universe)|Cryotek]]|"[[Theft of the Golden Disk]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
Sometime within roughly a decade of when the Transformers aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] awoke in the eruption of [[Mount St. Hilary]], the humans of planet Earth launched a primitive robotic spacecraft to study the outer planets in their solar system. Attached to this spacecraft was a gold disk which contained information about Earth. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the [[Decepticon leader|leader]] of the [[Decepticon]]s, acquired it at some point and encoded an additional message on the disk.

Megatron's message ordered any Decepticons who might, in the future, come across it to use [[unspace|transwarp]] technology to travel to the past {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} and use the [[Teletraan I]] codes encoded on the disk to access the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' while its occupants were inert and kill [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. This, in turn, would change history so that the Decepticons could win the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

At some point between Decepticon Megatron adding his message to the disk and the beginning of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], the spacecraft holding the disk—or perhaps only the disk—fell into the hands of the [[Transformer]]s. It was seemingly considered a precious artifact, even though the general population of Maximals had no idea what it really was (and even some Predacons—like the reformatted Decepticon Ravage—didn't have a clue). The [[Maximal Elder]]s were presumably aware of the Disk's origin.

The Predacons stole the Golden Disk; Megatron claimed that the disk held the location of a vast store of energon, with which the Predacon commander believed he could reignite the Great War against the Maximals. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

[[File:Dinobot GoldenDisk.jpg|left|thumb|"Well look at that. I've ''actually'' talked till I'm blue in the face."]]
[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] broke into the [[Darksyde (BW)|Predacon base]] and stole the Golden Disk. He then climbed to a high peak where he pontificated to himself about the potential power the wielder of the Golden Disk could hold, and the potential danger that came with it. On a personal level, he felt that it could either confirm or destroy his own reason for being. He needed to believe himself the master of his own fate, and if history could not be changed, then he could only believe himself a deterministic pawn. He eventually decided that the most prudent thing to do with an item of infinite power was to shove it under a large rock. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}}

Later, he noticed that the Predacons had been setting up installations around their base in a pattern that matched the shape of one of the symbols on the disk. Realizing that Megatron still meant to alter history, Dinobot rejoined him to discover the truth of his own destiny. He led Megatron to the location of the Golden Disk and presented it to him. Shortly afterwards, Dinobot defected to the Maximals once again, but Megatron escaped with the Golden Disk. {{storylink|Maximal, No More}}

Not long afterwards, Megatron began testing history's mutability, discovering through the images contained in the disk that he had the power to alter the timeline. The Predacons attacked the valley from which humanity's ancestors would emerge, but Dinobot launched a one-man berserker attack on the Predacons, single-handedly defeating them and shattering the Golden Disk with his last bit of energy. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

Megatron was captured by Covert Agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for violations of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], but revealed that he still possessed a lone fragment of the Golden Disk, which contained a message encoded by the original Megatron. He played it for Ravage, convincing the former Decepticon to release the Predacon and join forces with him. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
[[File:Dw theft.jpg|thumb|"With this little bauble I will write a new chapter in the history of.. Wait, this isn't.. DAMN YOU, JOE NG!"]]
As a Predacon and Dinobot were building up their band of rebels, they infiltrated the Vector Sigma chamber. This irked Dinobot, who didn't understand why they were wasting time "raiding an old library". But his leader was enraptured by his find: A Golden Disk filled with information on individual [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s, the history of Cybertron, details about other planets, and cutting-edge technology in the early 21st century. He said it was the key to his future, and after viewing it, he declared himself "Megatron". {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye #8}}
{{note|Due to an artistic error, the ''Voyager'' Golden Disk in this story is mistakenly drawn as the [[Golden Disk (Vok)|Vok Golden Disk]].}}

====''Theft of the Golden Disk''====
[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] was tasked by his mentor [[Cryotek (Universe)|Cryotek]] to retrieve a [[Data-Con]] that would reveal the location of the Golden Disk. Megatron pulled a double-cross on Cryotek, leaving him to the [[Maximal Command Security Force]] while he uncovered the Disk's location, and went to claim it for himself. {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}}

====''Dawn of Future's Past''====
{{stub}}
{{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Hall of Fame'' bios====
The [[Hall of Records]] was the site of the Golden Disk's theft. {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame|Waspinator's 2011 bio}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:WFC-Earthrise-Megatron-sees-Voyager-Golden-Disk.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
Though no one knows of its origin, the Golden Disk was eventually used by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] to record his memoirs throughout the war for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Comprising of all his strategies, secrets, and the battles he fought, the record only responded to his unique [[energy signature|energon signature]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} Megatron also chronicled his hunt for the [[AllSpark]] on [[Earth]] {{storylink|Kingdom episode 3}}, including when he failed during an encounter with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], thereby losing the war. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}} After killing Optimus Prime, Megatron lamented on the Golden Disk that they should have worked together, though shortly after he was found by [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] and painfully reformatted into servitude as [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}}

Using the [[Dead Universe]] to [[time travel|move through time]] and prevent his enslavement under Unicron, {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}} Galvatron traveled back to when Megatron entered the Dead Universe. After being found by Unicron, Galvatron attempted to turn over the Golden Disk in another desperate chance to change the past, but it disappeared as he did. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}} In his proper time, Galvatron, with the Golden Disk in tow, passed by the [[Voyager spacecraft|''Voyager'' spacecraft]] and swore to Unicron that he will find a way to break free from his servitude. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}}

[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Ep1-Predacon-Megatron-shows-Golden-Disk.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2]]
The Golden Disk was eventually in the hands of the [[Maximal]]s {{storylink|Kingdom episode 2}}, and Galvatron allowed [[Megatron (BW)|Predacon Megatron]] and his band of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] thieves to steal the disk and take it to Megatron in the past, out of hopes he will listen to it and avoid his altercation with Unicron. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}} Predacon Megatron later decrypted a few minutes of the Golden Disk and retraced the original Megatron's steps back to Earth {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} but was chased by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]''-bound Maximals, knowing the disk will help him change the past. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}}


[[File:KingdomEp5-GoldenDisk.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
{{stub|''Kingdom''}}
{{-}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material===
[[File:Kingdom-Golden-Disk-cardback.jpg|thumb]]
{{main|Source:Golden Disk destinies}}
The ''Voyager'' Golden Disk held the power to change the universe forever. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref> It carried three destinies each for the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prme]], and only one for the otherworldly [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Source:Golden Disk destinies|''Kingdom'' Golden Disk destinies}}

===2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic===
{{spoiler|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1|December 22 2021}}

The Golden Disk was originally attached to an alien space probe. After making enough trips through time for the Disk to be saturated in unspace energy, the probe crash on an asteroid in the [[Upsilonus Belt]] where it was found by [[Landquake (BW)|Landquake]] who brought it to the [[Wheeljack Ministry of Science]]. The scientists quickly decoded the surface files of the Disk's planet of origin only to discover more heavily encrypted ones. After decrypting a single file, that revealed the location of a planet rich with [[energon]], the scientists chose to downplay the significance of what they'd found. Disagreeing, [[Reptilion]] leaked word of the Disk to the Predacon separatist [[Megatron (BW)|Galavar]], hoping that the rogue could steal the Disk, decode it and deliver its contents to the whole of Cybertron. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1}}

Once the theft was complete, Galavar chose to rename himself "Megatron", showing off the relic to [[Tripredacus Council]] as he declared his defection. The separatists fled aboard [[Darksyde (BW)|a stolen warship]] which was engaged by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', both crafts crash landing on another world in another time. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 1}}

Confirming the large bounty of energon to be had, Megatron devoted himself to decrypting the remainder of the Golden Disk's files to no avail. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 2}} After a battle with the Maximals who caused the crash, Megatron managed to decode another of the Disk's files, which turned out to be a message from his future self. Before he could hear anything of value, the file deleted itself as it was irreversibly corrupted. {{storylink|Pod Part 1}}
{{-}}

==Toys & Merchandise==
===''Timelines'' (2006)===
[[File:Timelinestoy-RattrapDoFP.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Golden Cyber Disk Key Power!]]
*'''Dawn of Future's Past'''
:Most of the exclusive toys from [[BotCon 2006]] come with a Golden Disk key. It is a [[redeco]]ed [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] [[Cyber Key]]. It is meant to represent the Golden Disk as it appears in "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]".
{{--}}

===''Robot Heroes'' (2008)===
[[File:Robotheroessilverboltmegatron.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|"Little bauble," indeed, yesss.]]
*'''Silverbolt vs Megatron'''

:[[Transmetal]] Megatron comes with the disk in his tail-claw projector device.
{{--}}

===''Masterpiece''===
*'''Dinobot (Beast Wars)''' (2018)

:''Masterpiece'' Dinobot comes with the disk as an accessory.
{{--}}

===''Generations''===
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Titan-Ark-Golden-Disks.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Ark''' (Titan Class, [[2021]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-K30'''
:''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' Autobot Ark comes with both the Vok and ''Voyager'' Golden Disks. The accessories can only be wielded by several figures with poseable hands/open-palms.
{{--}}

==Notes==
[[File:Statue rockandrollhalloffame.jpg|thumb|A giant statue outside the [[Cybertron Archives|archives]] where it was stored includes <s>a copy</s> copies.]]

*"[[Fires of the Past]]" shows a statue of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] holding two golden disks outside the [[Cybertron Archives]]. Neither the Optimus Prime statue nor the golden disks in its hands are mentioned in the script. However, writer [[Bob Skir]] suggested that they were either the disks from the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, or that Optimus won them in the 2,395,989th Annual Cybertronian spelling bee.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080614012630/http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Tue_12_Oct_1999.html Q&A from Bigbot's "bobskir.com"] (archive copy)</ref>

===The real Golden Disk===
[[File:Eg2-goldendisk.jpg|upright=0.99|thumb|left|Ow -8 *..]]
The Golden Disk that appears in ''Beast Wars'' is based on a real object: In [[1977]], [[NASA]] launched two spacecraft called ''Voyager 1'' and ''Voyager 2'', which flew by our planetary system's four gas giants. (Jupiter and Saturn were visited by both craft, Uranus and Neptune only by ''Voyager 2''.) The ''Pioneer 10'' and ''11'' spacecraft which preceded them had carried copies of a plaque depicting human beings and showing the location of Earth with respect to several highly-visible pulsars. For the ''Voyager'' mission, a more sophisticated message was composed.

The "disk" consists of a cover or canister—on which a set of pictograms are found—and a phonograph record inside the canister. The record, titled "The Sounds of Earth", has a "data" portion and a sound portion. In the data portion are over a hundred encoded images including photographs of the Earth and its lifeforms, as well as drawings of human biology and reproduction. The audio portion includes sounds of natural environments on Earth, wildlife, human voices, and music. The pictograms on the record's cover explain how to play the disc and decode the images.

As portrayed in ''Beast Wars'', the Golden Disk seems to be an amalgam of the cover and the record itself. It appears to be at least a few centimeters thick and has the cover's pictograms on one side, but the record grooves and title "The Sounds of Earth" on the other. The indication is that the cover is one-sided, and we are seeing the record through the empty rear, as later episodes would present the disc in its real-life, thin, record form.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Golden Disk''' (ゴールデンディスク ''Gōruden Disuku'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA's web site on the continuing ''Voyager'' mission]
*[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html The message on the actual disks]

[[Category:Beast Wars objects]]
[[Category:Generation 1 objects]]
[[Category:Golden Disks]]

Golden Disk (Voyager)

2021-12-04T23:49:46Z

Will Keaton:

{{disambig3|Golden Disk}}
{{featured}}
[[File:Megatron GoldenDisk.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|DJ Meggy spins the hits.]]
The '''Golden Disk''' from the [[Voyager spacecraft|''Voyager'' probe]] is a recurring object throughout the Beast Wars. It plays a major role in the escalation of the conflict between the [[Maximal]]s and the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and leads to the death of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]. It is eventually destroyed, but the Predacon leader, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], recovers one of the shards and shows a [[Ravage (G1)|Cybertronian government agent]] a piece of a message that was enscripted into it by his [[Megatron (G1)|former boss]].

{{bigquote|A seemingly insignificant scrap of metal made by [[human|a small, fragile species hardly worth mentioning]]... and yet this object holds the key to the conquest of the whole of Cybertron. For over three hundred cycles, the Golden Disk has carried the mystery of incredible power under its shimmering surface. I can tell you the tales of a thousand Maximals and Predacons who have hunted this dark relic. Every story had the same ending... ''destruction''.|[[Cryotek]]|"[[Theft of the Golden Disk]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
Sometime within roughly a decade of when the Transformers aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] awoke in the eruption of [[Mount St. Hilary]], the humans of planet Earth launched a primitive robotic spacecraft to study the outer planets in their solar system. Attached to this spacecraft was a gold disk which contained information about Earth. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the [[Decepticon leader|leader]] of the [[Decepticon]]s, acquired it at some point and encoded an additional message on the disk.

Megatron's message ordered any Decepticons who might, in the future, come across it to use [[unspace|transwarp]] technology to travel to the past {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} and use the [[Teletraan I]] codes encoded on the disk to access the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' while its occupants were inert and kill [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. This, in turn, would change history so that the Decepticons could win the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

At some point between Decepticon Megatron adding his message to the disk and the beginning of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], the spacecraft holding the disk—or perhaps only the disk—fell into the hands of the [[Transformer]]s. It was seemingly considered a precious artifact, even though the general population of Maximals had no idea what it really was (and even some Predacons—like the reformatted Decepticon Ravage—didn't have a clue). The [[Maximal Elder]]s were presumably aware of the Disk's origin.

The Predacons stole the Golden Disk; Megatron claimed that the disk held the location of a vast store of energon, with which the Predacon commander believed he could reignite the Great War against the Maximals. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

[[File:Dinobot GoldenDisk.jpg|left|thumb|"Well look at that. I've ''actually'' talked till I'm blue in the face."]]
[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] broke into the [[Darksyde (BW)|Predacon base]] and stole the Golden Disk. He then climbed to a high peak where he pontificated to himself about the potential power the wielder of the Golden Disk could hold, and the potential danger that came with it. On a personal level, he felt that it could either confirm or destroy his own reason for being. He needed to believe himself the master of his own fate, and if history could not be changed, then he could only believe himself a deterministic pawn. He eventually decided that the most prudent thing to do with an item of infinite power was to shove it under a large rock. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}}

Later, he noticed that the Predacons had been setting up installations around their base in a pattern that matched the shape of one of the symbols on the disk. Realizing that Megatron still meant to alter history, Dinobot rejoined him to discover the truth of his own destiny. He led Megatron to the location of the Golden Disk and presented it to him. Shortly afterwards, Dinobot defected to the Maximals once again, but Megatron escaped with the Golden Disk. {{storylink|Maximal, No More}}

Not long afterwards, Megatron began testing history's mutability, discovering through the images contained in the disk that he had the power to alter the timeline. The Predacons attacked the valley from which humanity's ancestors would emerge, but Dinobot launched a one-man berserker attack on the Predacons, single-handedly defeating them and shattering the Golden Disk with his last bit of energy. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

Megatron was captured by Covert Agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for violations of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], but revealed that he still possessed a lone fragment of the Golden Disk, which contained a message encoded by the original Megatron. He played it for Ravage, convincing the former Decepticon to release the Predacon and join forces with him. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
[[File:Dw theft.jpg|thumb|"With this little bauble I will write a new chapter in the history of.. Wait, this isn't.. DAMN YOU, JOE NG!"]]
As a Predacon and Dinobot were building up their band of rebels, they infiltrated the Vector Sigma chamber. This irked Dinobot, who didn't understand why they were wasting time "raiding an old library". But his leader was enraptured by his find: A Golden Disk filled with information on individual [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s, the history of Cybertron, details about other planets, and cutting-edge technology in the early 21st century. He said it was the key to his future, and after viewing it, he declared himself "Megatron". {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye #8}}
{{note|Due to an artistic error, the ''Voyager'' Golden Disk in this story is mistakenly drawn as the [[Golden Disk (Vok)|Vok Golden Disk]].}}

====''Theft of the Golden Disk''====
[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] was tasked by his mentor [[Cryotek (Universe)|Cryotek]] to retrieve a [[Data-Con]] that would reveal the location of the Golden Disk. Megatron pulled a double-cross on Cryotek, leaving him to the [[Maximal Command Security Force]] while he uncovered the Disk's location, and went to claim it for himself. {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}}

====''Dawn of Future's Past''====
{{stub}}
{{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Hall of Fame'' bios====
The [[Hall of Records]] was the site of the Golden Disk's theft. {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame|Waspinator's 2011 bio}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:WFC-Earthrise-Megatron-sees-Voyager-Golden-Disk.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
Though no one knows of its origin, the Golden Disk was eventually used by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] to record his memoirs throughout the war for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Comprising of all his strategies, secrets, and the battles he fought, the record only responded to his unique [[energy signature|energon signature]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} Megatron also chronicled his hunt for the [[AllSpark]] on [[Earth]] {{storylink|Kingdom episode 3}}, including when he failed during an encounter with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], thereby losing the war. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}} After killing Optimus Prime, Megatron lamented on the Golden Disk that they should have worked together, though shortly after he was found by [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] and painfully reformatted into servitude as [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}}

Using the [[Dead Universe]] to [[time travel|move through time]] and prevent his enslavement under Unicron, {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}} Galvatron traveled back to when Megatron entered the Dead Universe. After being found by Unicron, Galvatron attempted to turn over the Golden Disk in another desperate chance to change the past, but it disappeared as he did. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}} In his proper time, Galvatron, with the Golden Disk in tow, passed by the [[Voyager spacecraft|''Voyager'' spacecraft]] and swore to Unicron that he will find a way to break free from his servitude. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}}

[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Ep1-Predacon-Megatron-shows-Golden-Disk.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2]]
The Golden Disk was eventually in the hands of the [[Maximal]]s {{storylink|Kingdom episode 2}}, and Galvatron allowed [[Megatron (BW)|Predacon Megatron]] and his band of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] thieves to steal the disk and take it to Megatron in the past, out of hopes he will listen to it and avoid his altercation with Unicron. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}} Predacon Megatron later decrypted a few minutes of the Golden Disk and retraced the original Megatron's steps back to Earth {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} but was chased by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]''-bound Maximals, knowing the disk will help him change the past. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}}


[[File:KingdomEp5-GoldenDisk.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
{{stub|''Kingdom''}}
{{-}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material===
[[File:Kingdom-Golden-Disk-cardback.jpg|thumb]]
{{main|Source:Golden Disk destinies}}
The ''Voyager'' Golden Disk held the power to change the universe forever. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref> It carried three destinies each for the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prme]], and only one for the otherworldly [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Source:Golden Disk destinies|''Kingdom'' Golden Disk destinies}}

===2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic===
{{spoiler|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1|December 22 2021}}

The Golden Disk was originally attached to an alien space probe. After making enough trips through time for the Disk to be saturated in unspace energy, the probe crash on an asteroid in the [[Upsilonus Belt]] where it was found by [[Landquake (BW)|Landquake]] who brought it to the [[Wheeljack Ministry of Science]]. The scientists quickly decoded the surface files of the Disk's planet of origin only to discover more heavily encrypted ones. After decrypting a single file, that revealed the location of a planet rich with [[energon]], the scientists chose to downplay the significance of what they'd found. Disagreeing, [[Reptilion]] leaked word of the Disk to the Predacon separatist [[Megatron (BW)|Galavar]], hoping that the rogue could steal the Disk, decode it and deliver its contents to the whole of Cybertron. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1}}

Once the theft was complete, Galavar chose to rename himself "Megatron", showing off the relic to [[Tripredacus Council]] as he declared his defection. The separatists fled aboard [[Darksyde (BW)|a stolen warship]] which was engaged by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', both crafts crash landing on another world in another time. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 1}}

Confirming the large bounty of energon to be had, Megatron devoted himself to decrypting the remainder of the Golden Disk's files to no avail. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 2}} After a battle with the Maximals who caused the crash, Megatron managed to decode another of the Disk's files, which turned out to be a message from his future self. Before he could hear anything of value, the file deleted itself as it was irreversibly corrupted. {{storylink|Pod Part 1}}
{{-}}

==Toys & Merchandise==
===''Timelines'' (2006)===
[[File:Timelinestoy-RattrapDoFP.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Golden Cyber Disk Key Power!]]
*'''Dawn of Future's Past'''
:Most of the exclusive toys from [[BotCon 2006]] come with a Golden Disk key. It is a [[redeco]]ed [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] [[Cyber Key]]. It is meant to represent the Golden Disk as it appears in "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]".
{{--}}

===''Robot Heroes'' (2008)===
[[File:Robotheroessilverboltmegatron.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|"Little bauble," indeed, yesss.]]
*'''Silverbolt vs Megatron'''

:[[Transmetal]] Megatron comes with the disk in his tail-claw projector device.
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===''Masterpiece''===
*'''Dinobot (Beast Wars)''' (2018)

:''Masterpiece'' Dinobot comes with the disk as an accessory.
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===''Generations''===
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Titan-Ark-Golden-Disks.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Ark''' (Titan Class, [[2021]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-K30'''
:''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' Autobot Ark comes with both the Vok and ''Voyager'' Golden Disks. The accessories can only be wielded by several figures with poseable hands/open-palms.
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==Notes==
[[File:Statue rockandrollhalloffame.jpg|thumb|A giant statue outside the [[Cybertron Archives|archives]] where it was stored includes <s>a copy</s> copies.]]

*"[[Fires of the Past]]" shows a statue of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] holding two golden disks outside the [[Cybertron Archives]]. Neither the Optimus Prime statue nor the golden disks in its hands are mentioned in the script. However, writer [[Bob Skir]] suggested that they were either the disks from the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, or that Optimus won them in the 2,395,989th Annual Cybertronian spelling bee.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080614012630/http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Tue_12_Oct_1999.html Q&A from Bigbot's "bobskir.com"] (archive copy)</ref>

===The real Golden Disk===
[[File:Eg2-goldendisk.jpg|upright=0.99|thumb|left|Ow -8 *..]]
The Golden Disk that appears in ''Beast Wars'' is based on a real object: In [[1977]], [[NASA]] launched two spacecraft called ''Voyager 1'' and ''Voyager 2'', which flew by our planetary system's four gas giants. (Jupiter and Saturn were visited by both craft, Uranus and Neptune only by ''Voyager 2''.) The ''Pioneer 10'' and ''11'' spacecraft which preceded them had carried copies of a plaque depicting human beings and showing the location of Earth with respect to several highly-visible pulsars. For the ''Voyager'' mission, a more sophisticated message was composed.

The "disk" consists of a cover or canister—on which a set of pictograms are found—and a phonograph record inside the canister. The record, titled "The Sounds of Earth", has a "data" portion and a sound portion. In the data portion are over a hundred encoded images including photographs of the Earth and its lifeforms, as well as drawings of human biology and reproduction. The audio portion includes sounds of natural environments on Earth, wildlife, human voices, and music. The pictograms on the record's cover explain how to play the disc and decode the images.

As portrayed in ''Beast Wars'', the Golden Disk seems to be an amalgam of the cover and the record itself. It appears to be at least a few centimeters thick and has the cover's pictograms on one side, but the record grooves and title "The Sounds of Earth" on the other. The indication is that the cover is one-sided, and we are seeing the record through the empty rear, as later episodes would present the disc in its real-life, thin, record form.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Golden Disk''' (ゴールデンディスク ''Gōruden Disuku'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA's web site on the continuing ''Voyager'' mission]
*[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html The message on the actual disks]

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Sprocket (G1)

2021-04-03T02:18:08Z

Will Keaton:

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Action Master|the mirror universe camerabot who may or may not be an Action Master|Sprocket (SG)}}
:''Sprocket is an [[Autobot]] [[Action Master]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Sprocket.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|"Touch my monkey or I'll shoot my Jeep."]]
When he enters a battlefield, the only difference between the ferocious '''Sprocket''' and a [[Decepticon]] is the [[Autobot]] [[Insignia|symbol]] barely visible beneath the thick, steaming spray of his enemies' vital fluids. Sprocket specializes in quick and decisive violence. He enters combat with a fervor few robots in any army could match, and he's never taken a prisoner. This would all make him a spectacular front-line fighter if an oversight by the harried Autobot command hadn't assigned him to do surveillance instead. Still, he does surprisingly well, always being sure to report back exactly what those he eviscerated were working on before he reached them.

His [[Attack Cruiser]] helps in his thirst for slagging some Decepticons.

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|''[[Spotlight: Arcee]]''}}

[[File:SpotlightArcee Autobotsfighting.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|"Now I am as happy as a little girl!"]]
Sprocket was an Autobot soldier stationed at the penal facility [[Garrus-9]] under [[Fortress Maximus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Fortress Maximus]]'s command. He was injured in the assault by [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] and the [[Decepticon Secret Service]], and was seen being supported by [[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Arcee}}

[[File:Second storytelling an intimate beheading.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
He later joined the ''[[Lost Light]]'' and would attend [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind's]] second storytelling session over a bottle of "[[Old Corroder]]" in [[Swerve's]]. (It seems he once had an adventure with [[Xaaron]], [[Dipstick]], [[Atomizer]], and [[Slapdash (G1)|Slapdash]].) {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

Sprocket was later arrested and thrown in the brig for repeatedly touching something of his that [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] would rather he didn't. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}}

Shortly before the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s second launch, Sprocket was seen drinking with [[Blades (G1)|Blades]] in Swerve's. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

When [[Getaway]] began his mutiny against Rodimus and Megatron, Sprocket was among the Autobots seen on the bridge supporting the change in command. {{storylink|The Plotters' Club (Part 2): Filling in the Blanks|Filling in the Blanks}}
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===''Wings Universe''===
[[File:Sprocket-OverdriveObserver.jpg|thumb|left|Whoa.]]
Sprocket used to be a super awesome Autobot commando, but on one of his first missions for the [[Elite Guard]], a mishap while hacking into the computers at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]] resulted in the entire Cybertron info core being dumped into Sprocket's mind. Since then, Sprocket's been spotty at best. Depending on what time of day it is, he can't remember his motto, his function, or even his own life. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41|Sprocket's profile in Club magazine #41}} Sprocket has since claimed once that he wanted to be an artist when he was younger, while also claiming to have been taught by [[Yoketron (G1)|Yoketron]]. According to his twin brother [[Rumbler (G1)|Rumbler]], at least the latter isn't true.

Now an overactive, overexcitable, and all-around childish and erratic fellow, Sprocket joins Rumbler as part of [[Powerflash]]'s Elite Guard [[Stealth Team (G1)|Stealth Team]]. {{storylink|A Team Effort}} Despite acting like a huge glitch, Sprocket remains in the Elite Guard, largely due to [[Powerflash]]'s vouching for him, and he has yet to be a liability on the battlefield. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41|Sprocket's profile in Club magazine #41}}

While at the base in [[Detrona]], Sprocket had the habit of hallucinating (or just imagining) that he was talking to [[Autobot High Council]]lor [[Halogen (G1)|Halogen]], much to Rumbler's annoyance. The team had a meeting, during which they were given the assignment to stop the [[Decepticon Warlord]] [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] from seizing a mysterious asteroid, and Sprocket finally realized the significance of the name "Decepticon". As part of the plan Powerflash came up with, Sprocket gave his leader a repaint. When they inspected the ''[[Darklon (G1)|Darklon]]'', the ship which was to be part of the plan, Sprocket made instant friends with the ship's computer, though none of his teammates believed him when he told them so. He and Rumbler were concealed in a chest in the cargo bay while Powerflash and [[Tap-Out (Universe)|Tap-Out]] tricked Gutcruncher's men into hiring them and their ship.

[[File:BattleLines4-Sprocket.jpg|thumb|"His agony was gorgeous. I need to be slapped."]]
The pair were awoken by Powerflash when Gutcruncher discovered the deception, though Rumbler did most of the fighting and Sprocket mostly just annoyed Rumbler. It didn't stop him innocently claiming half the credit for the capture of Gutcruncher's three men. After their arrival at the asteroid, Sprocket emerged from the ship carrying the scientific equipment, only to find that the Decepticons had escaped and had Powerflash and Rumbler at gunpoint. He subsequently admitted to his teammates that he'd neglected to recharge the [[F-249 Quantum Pulse Regulator]]s after their last mission, so the Decepticons were toting useless weapons.

The Decepticons and Autobots found a [[Nucleon (substance)|huge crystal monolith]] in a nearby crater and were zapped unconscious by it. When they recovered, they found they were unable to [[Transformation|transform]] and were forced to hike back to the ''Darklon''. The Autobots, with their powers enhanced by the crystal's power, were able to overcome the Decepticons. During the later debriefing in the Elite Guard infirmary, Sprocket explained that Gutcruncher hadn't been able to activate the ''Darklon''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> defense systems because the ship didn't like him. {{storylink|A Team Effort}}

[[File:BattleLines6-Paradron.jpg|thumb|left|"Why is it that the truly brilliant are doomed to a life of obscurity, surrounded by a sea of mediocrity, only to end up covered in sores in a pool of their own filth? Oh well, the beat goes on."]]
Sprocket and the Stealth Team were on hand to defend Elite Guard headquarters with Sentinel Major when the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s returned leading [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]'s troops. {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 5}} [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] killed just about everyone {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 6}} luckily Sprocket and Rumbler were among the survivors.{{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 4}} An errant shot from Sprocket had trapped himself and the other survivors under some wreckage, inadvertently keeping them from harm. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41|Sprocket's profile in Club magazine #41}} They were eventually discovered and repaired, and along with [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] and [[Big Bang]], went to aid [[Magnum]]'s team in fighting Deathsaurus and his men. No sooner had they done so, than they were dogpiled by Decepticons, though Sprocket at least seemed to be enjoying himself. As Deathsaurus was about to finish off Magnum and [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]], Spocket jumped on the Warlord's back for a "[[zap-pony]] ride". When Deathsaurus sounded less than enthusiastic about this, Sprocket jumped over him and blasted him in the chest, announcing he was "it". That pretty much resulted in the Decepticons retreating. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 4}}

A week later, when the Decepticons assaulted [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Sprocket and Rumbler were sent flying via [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s attacks. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 5}} Sprocket survived, but Rumbler didn't. However, Sprocket didn't pick up on his brother's death and spoke to him as if he were there. With other pacifistic-minded Autobots, Sprocket left Cybertron for [[Paradron]] some time later. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:Sprocketoverruncommercial.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"Your presence intimidates me to the point of humiliation. Would you care to strike me?"]]
*Sprocket stood alongside his fellow Autobot robots when the leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] decided it would be a brilliant idea to dispense with the transforming. This idea was so brilliant that it destroyed Sprocket's soul. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Action Masters|Action Master commercial}}
*Sprocket and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] were driving on Cybertron, aboard the [[Attack Cruiser]] and the [[Turbo Racer]] respectively, when they came under fire from [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]]'s [[Stratotronic Jet]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Gutcruncher|Action Master vehicles commercial}}
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==Toys==
===The Transformers===
[[File:Sprocket toy.jpg|thumb|"ENOUGH! YOUR STORY GROWS TIRESOME!"]]
*'''Attack Cruiser with Action Master Sprocket''' (Action Master Autobot Vehicle, [[1990]])
**''Accessories:'' "Attack Cruiser" vehicle, 2 missiles/rifles

: Available only with the larger [[Attack Cruiser#Toys|Attack Cruiser]] vehicle, [[Action Master]] Sprocket is a non-transforming 3 3/4-inch action figure, with swivel neck, shoulders and knees, and steel-ball-jointed hips. His body shows hints of some form of fighter jet alternate mode, with tiny wings on the backs of his biceps and exhaust thrusters in his heels.

: He is compatible with any other Action Master accessory or vehicle, with 3 mm holes in his fists and feet for weapons and stands, and a [[5 mm post|5 mm hole]] in his back for backpacks. He has no dedicated weapon accessories of his own, instead using his vehicle's missiles held backwards as ''very'' long rifles (though it's quite possible he flies backwards every time he fires them).

:This mold was also used to make fellow Action Master [[Rumbler (G1)#Toys|Rumbler]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1990/Autobot/Sprocket/sprocket.htm More information on Sprocket at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*Sprocket is the first ''Action Masters''-original character to have a [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] designed for his ''Action Masters'' [[robot mode]]. Previously shown transforming Action Masters, like Over-Run and Banzaitron, were redesigned with new robot modes to accommodate a transformation process.

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Transformers: Titans Return (cartoon)

2017-12-20T19:09:03Z

Will Keaton:

{{Nav-TitansReturn}}
[[File:TitansReturnPoster.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[John DiMaggio|Big Bender, starts right now]].]]

'''''Transformers: Titans Return''''' is an animated web series produced by [[Hasbro Studios]] and [[Machinima]] with animation done by [[Tatsunoko Production]]. Tying in with the ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' imprint, it is the second entry in the [[Prime Wars Trilogy]] and the sequel to the ''[[Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)|Combiner Wars]]'' web series. [[Eric S. Calderon]] and [[F.J. DeSanto]] return as the series showrunners, joined by [[Adam Beechen]] as a writer. ''Titans Return'' premiered on [[November 14]], [[2017]] on the [[go90]] platform in the US and Sohu.com in China, and on Tumblr for international markets. <ref>https://transformersprimewars.tumblr.com/</ref> It ran for ten episodes, each roughly 11 minutes in length.<ref>[http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/transformers-titans-return-wil-wheaton-peter-cullen-judd-nelson-1202498541/ ‘Transformers: Titans Return’ Series Casts Peter Cullen, Judd Nelson, Wil Wheaton - Variety]</ref><ref>[http://www.comicon.com/2017/07/18/peter-cullen-returns-as-optimus-prime-in-titans-return/ Peter Cullen Returns As Optimus Prime In Titans Return - COMICON]</ref> A sequel series, ''[[Transformers: Power of the Primes (cartoon)|Power of the Primes]]'', will follow later, completing the trilogy.

==Overview==
Following the events of ''Combiner Wars'', the people of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] work to rebuild and recover, but are interrupted by the reawakening of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] as the [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]] begins to wreak havoc. To stop Trypticon's rampage, some such as [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] try to fight him directly, while others attempt to resurrect an ancient ally, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Things get even more complicated when [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] returns, looking for a fight. And while some may be forever changed by the events, others may not emerge with their sparks intact.

==Cast==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime/Hot Rod]] ([[Judd Nelson]])
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] ([[Wil Wheaton]])

'''Combiners'''
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]] ([[Matthew Patrick]])

'''Titans'''
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] ([[Nolan North]])
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] ([[Michael Dorn]])
**[[Emissary (Generations)|Emissary]] ([[Jason David Frank]])

|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] ([[Jason Marnocha]])
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] ([[Frank Todaro]])
*[[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] ([[Patrick Seitz]])

'''Combiners'''
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] ([[Charlie Guzman]])
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] ([[Rob Dyke]])
**[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (Frank Todaro)
**[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
**[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]

'''Titans'''
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (Frank Todaro)

'''Elite Air Squadron'''
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
*[[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]
* [[Hotlink (G1)|Hotlink]]

|h4=[[Caminus|Camien]]s|c4=
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] ([[Abby Trott]])
*[[Mistress of Flame]] ([[Lana McKissack]])

'''Combiners'''
*[[Victorion]] ([[Kari Wahlgren]])
**[[Stormclash]]

|c5=
*[[Chorus of the Primes]] ([[Tay Zonday]])
*[[Narrator]] ([[Victor Caroli]])
}}

==Episodes==
{{collist|2|
# [[Aftermath and Rebirth]]
# [[Our Heroes Respond]]
# [[The Fight Begins]]
# [[Overlord and Emissary]]
# [[At the Last Second]]
# [[Desperate Actions]]
# [[Run For Our Lives]]
# TBD
# TBD
# TBD
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

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[[Category:Titans Return| Cartoon]]
[[Category:Media]]

==External links==
*[https://www.go90.com/shows/3OhDENwXXKe Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy on Go90] (US only)
*[https://transformersprimewars.tumblr.com/ Transformers Prime Wars Tumblr] (worldwide)

Cliffhanger

2017-09-28T22:27:56Z

Will Keaton:

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|''"Cliffhanger" should not be confused with [[Cliffjumper (disambiguation)|Cliffjumper]].''
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[[File:Other Voices 2 Megatron Optimus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Want to know what will happen next? '''WAIT''' for the ''next season''! Yessss.]]

In fiction, the term "'''cliffhanger'''" or "'''cliffhanger ending'''" refers a plot device featuring a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction. A cliffhanger is usually used to ensure the audience will return to see how the dilemma gets resolved, <s>thus raising the [[Wikipedia:Audience measurement|audience]] [[Wikipedia:Ratings (broadcast)|rating]]s</s>. It is like a TV show's version of "[[to sell toys]]" in a certain way.

The cliffhanger could be used at the end of an episode from a series of continuous episodes, or the end of the season finale. It has been used in many ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' shows since "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]", the first episode of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]]. Later, the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' started to use the cliffhanger in the season finale.

==Notable examples==
===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
Because the [[United Kingdom]] published Transformers comics once a week, UK printings of the [[United States of America|US]] stories were split into two parts. As a result, said printings would often be edited to provide a better cliffhanger. This was often accomplished by re-ordering pages, changing dialogue or, in one [[The Flames of Boltax!|particularly egregious instance]], using the ''cover'' of an issue as an interior page, to questionable effect.

===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
The episode "[[Other Voices, Part 2]]" ended the first season with the death of [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] while "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]" closed the second season with [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s attempt to kill [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].

===''Beast Machines'' cartoon===
The episode "[[End of the Line]]" ended the season with the alluded demise of Optimus Primal.

===''Animated'' cartoon===
The first season finale "[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]" ended with the revelation that [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] was still alive and had [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] as his captive. The following episode, "[[The Elite Guard]]," ended with [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] learning that there are no records of either her birth or even her existence. The second season finale "[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]" ended with Sari being exposed as being more than just human, along with a scene of Megatron and [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] drifting alone in space with their fates left unknown.

===''Prime'' cartoon===
The first season finale "[[One Shall Rise, Part 3]]" ended with [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]'s declaration that [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]] is one of the Decepticon comrades.

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Cliffhanger|Cliffhanger at Wikipedia]]

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