Talk:The Search for Alpha Trion

Hey, this story summary was awesome, especially back when I wrote it exclusively for the TFArchive. I'll ask Denyer if he minds that material I wrote for his site (well, not *his*, but he's the major contributor) gets reprinted here, but I discourage using the stuff without permission. If I felt like it was okay to use my summaries I'd have posted them myself. --DrSpengler 00:11, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Gah... yeah, the anonymous editor who posted this obviously hasn't read the help files. If Denyer's okay with it, you can vette this since you are the original author, but honestly we could also simply delete the article until/unless somebody wants to write something original. Especially since the pasted text isn't even in our standard format, lacks categories, etc.. We can leave it up to you, since it's your work. --Steve-o 05:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

We don't figure to own submissions (and'll take stuff down if people decide they really don't want it online with us, unless it's already licensed free-for-NC / public domain, etc) so with apologies to Spengs I'm gonna pass the question back.

As far as I'm aware, everything here has to be GNUFDL -- if material was given to a site to post first and then okayed for here, I don't think there'd be a problem as far as that angle went. If anything was used here first, it couldn't be posted to another site without GNUFDL coming along for the ride. (But assuming the original was somewhere else, further work on that would be derivative of the original rather than the virally-licensed document.) Am I right so far? I'm more used to the GNU software licenses, and prefer CC flavours for text because they keep people credited, it's easier to know who did what, and the authors can allow use in future (eg, in a club magazine) without it having to have an FDL release attached.

Whatever he wants to do, it's definitely a good idea to beat wiki newbies with a stick until they grasp the "don't just copy and paste content without asking authors" and "everything here is relicensed" bits... --Denyer 11:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• Ah, cool. Thanks for registering to talk about it. I suppose I'm more irritated the dude didn't ask for permission, but so long as *all* my summaries don't wind up here without me being asked at least once, it doesn't bug me. --DrSpengler 17:44, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

(Hello, I am new here.) I was just watching this episode and I noticed something that I think might count as an error, though I'm not sure what to put it under. It's when Alpha Trion is attempting to repair Elita One. From the dialogue and the context, I get the impression that Alpha Trion was supposed to work for a while, then return to Prime and tell him that there's only one (sexy) solution. But the way it's cut, it seems more like Alpha Trion took two seconds to figure out he had no clue what he was doing before telling Prime that he had to sex her back to health. It's like there's a missing "Autobot to Autobot" transition or something to suggest the passage of time. Legitimate error or just my imagination? --BWII Moon 16:16, 6 July 2010 (EDT)

Caption change

I propose that we change the caption of the picture of Elita kicking Astrotrain to "Boot to the head!" ZeldaTheSwordsman 00:25, 30 September 2010 (EDT)

Optimus flashback

"When the Ark launched back in "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1", there was no indication of a Decepticon attack on the launch site, as this episode's flashback shows."

How do you know this? Are you sure it's the same moment in time? How do we know it's not a previous instance of the Autobots fleeing in the Ark while under Decepticon attack? 199.71.183.2 12:27, 16 June 2011 (EDT)

It's very obviously meant to be the same point in time. Why would Elita and co. not notify their colleagues they're still alive if they had time to do so? Why didn't the "Ark" crew question the lack of bodies if they got time to look for them? Didn't the episode even say that the ship was only recently finished being built? And for what it's worth, The Headmasters seems to go with the notion that the Ark was under attack when it left on its fateful journey. Geewunling 12:31, 16 June 2011 (EDT)

Didn't the flashback from this episode show smoke from the battle as the Ark lifted off? There was no such indication in MTMTE. --Khajidha 12:44, 16 June 2011 (EDT)

It's a simple retcon. There wasn't a Decepticon attack on the Ark launchpad in MTMTE. In SfAT, there was, and Elita One was there, wanting to leave the planet with them, and Prime believed that she died, then immediately left, hence why he never found out she wasn't. - Chris McFeely 13:03, 16 June 2011 (EDT)

"Pursuit robot" character

J-Wikipedia lists a "pursuit robot" (追跡ロボット tsuiseki robotto), voiced by Hirotaka Suzuoki. Do with this as you will —Interrobang 05:21, 3 August 2011 (EDT)

First fembot is wrong?

So someone in the unaffiliated TF discord claims firestar came first instead of Chromia.[1] Is this legitimate? Or is it because Chromia was the first to be named?--Poliwag06 (talk) 18:33, 13 February 2023 (EST)