Fires of the Past

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Stymied time and again by his Maximal foes, Megatron brings three new Generals online.

Summary

While the Maximals search the Cybertronian Archives for answers to what has happened to the population, they are attacked by Vehicon drones. Rattrap, who went inside to look, returns and explains all the history of the planet has been erased. Overwhelmed by drones, and Blackarachnia having odd visions, the Maximals retreat. Optimus is not incredibly happy about the failures of the team. Blackarachnia sneaks off on her own to the Central Space Port, Rattrap sneaking after her. Megatron, annoyed by the incompetence of his drones, summons three sparks and places them in three Vehicon Generals:

• Jetstorm - Aerodrone General.
• Thrust - Cycle Drone General.
• Tankor - Tank Drone General.

Blackarachnia and Rattrap flee to another chamber where Blackarachnia locates their Autobot shuttle used to reach Cybertron. Blackarachnia plans to download the backup memory files of the shuttle to find out what happened, but Megatron also plans to downloads her memories to locate the Maximal base. Rattrap learns of this and has to cut the power of the shuttle. Thankfully, Blackarachnia remembered the missing members of the team - Rhinox and Silverbolt. The Generals attack, but Optimus and Cheetor leap in to save their comrades.

Stats

Writers: Marv Wolfman
Original Air Date: October 2, 1999

Major Characters (in order of appearance): Blackarachnia, Cheetor, Optimus Primal, Megatron, Jetstorm, Thrust, Tankor
Minor Characters (in order of appearance): Tank Drones

Notes

Technical/Animation Glitches

• Glitch

Continuity Errors

• Optimus Primal seems very insistent on Blackarachnia reverting back to beast mode despite not knowing the reason why she should until much later in the episode.

• Why would a Diagnostic Drone be so grossly inaccurate when he told Megatron that his organic purging was complete?

Transformers References

He won the spelling bee by correctly spelling "Hun-Gurrr" and "Deathsaurus".

• A giant statue of Optimus Prime holding two Golden Disks stands in front of the Hall of Archives.

Writer Bob Skir claims that neither the statue nor the golden disks in its hands were mentioned the script. However, he 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. We're betting on the latter.

Real-World References

• Reference

External Links

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.