Judgment Day, Part 1

	; "What if you could change your mind, Judge?" ; "...I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Mo."
	"Judgement Day, Part 1"
Season	3
No. in season	7
Production company	Hasbro Entertainment; Nickelodeon
Airdate	October 25, 2024 (Paramount+); TBA, 2024 (Nickelodeon)
Writer	Dale Malinowski
Director	Vinton T. Heuck
Animation studio	88 Pictures
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An ancient evil arrives to lay claim to Quintus Prime's power.

Synopsis

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Terrans	Others
Optimus Prime Prowl Elita-1 Arcee Bumblebee Grimlock Wheeljack Cosmos	Megatron	Robby Malto Mo Malto Dot Malto Alex Malto	Twitch Thrash Jawbreaker Hashtag Nightshade Terratronus	Quintesson Judge Quintesson Executioner

This is the first time Wheeljack has had any spoken dialogue since his apparent death back in "The Imposters", after making a silent cameo in "Witwicky, Part 2".
Cosmos returns for the first time since "The Butterfly Effect". Dialog in several previous episodes has established that he's been tracking ships coming and going from Earth.
The lead Quintesson Executioner is the same one Mo fought with in "In Ruins" — though this goes unspecified in dialogue, it has a damaged left arm following the final fight in that episode.

Various aspects of the Quintessons and their technology originate from their original appearance in The Transformers: The Movie.
- The Quintesson Judge is a redesign of the original Quintesson Judge.
- The Quintesson ship shares design aspects with the Quintesson Cruiser such as the oddly-angled disc sections.
- The original Quintessons also dropped their prisoners into a pit filled with liquid and Sharkticons, which at one point became a whirlpool.

Just as Robby, Mo, Twitch, and Thrash fly towards the Quintesson Judge’s ship, Hashtag is briefly seen in her previous design where she turned into a G.H.O.S.T. van, which was changed after getting a new alt-mode in “Control Alt Delete”.

This is the first episode to feature every Autobot in the present day in EarthSpark altogether.