Star Trek vs Transformers #1

Title: Prime's Directive Part One

Written by: John Barber & Mike Johnson

Art by: Philip Murphy

Colours by: Priscilla Tramontano

Letters by: Christa Miesner

Edits by: Chase Marotz & David Mariotte

Publisher: Greg Goldstein

Plot

The Federation ship, the Enterprise, is called to a remote Dilithium mine on Cygnus Seven, which is under attack. Kirk, Sulu, Spock and M'Ress beam down to the surface and are shocked to see, not Klingons as expected, but last 20th Century aircraft!

The Federation crew are confused by what they are seeing, and discover that their communications are being blocked by something. Suddenly a tunnel is blasted open and another time-displaced vehicle, a truck, appears. Spock soon realizes that none of these vehicles have pilots or drivers. Kirk determines that the Klingons must be controlling them somehow, so he shoots the truck with a phaser, which shockingly starts screaming and transforms into a large red robot, Optimus Prime. Kirk tries to figure out if there is someone in there piloting the robot, when he starts worrying about dragging more humans into his war, before passing out from the pain.

Kirk demands for the aircraft to identify themselves, resulting in the Decepticons transforming and revealing themselves too. Soundwave soon launches a sonic attack on them, to incapacitate them, however in the process this lifts the communications block, allowing the crew to contact the Enterprise to get them to fire on the Decepticons.

Soundwave is injured in the blast from space, forcing the Decepticons to escape and plan what to do about their unknown enemies. Whilst escaping, Soundwave picks up another Decepticons signal, so they head towards it.

The Enterprise crew start examining Optimus, whilst the medical team go to fix up the injured miners and staff of the Federation facility, when they determine that Optimus is more than just a robot, as he seems to have energy coursing through him, like a human would with blood. Soon they discover more, similar signals from inside the mine tunnel he came out of originally, so they decide to investigate.

The Decepticons locate the Decepticon signal, and are shocked to see Trypticon in his city mode, with a downed Klingon Bird of Prey nearby. The Decepticons and the Klingons soon realise they have a common enemy in the Enterprise crew, so they ally together to take them and the Autobots down...

Kirk and his team find a wall with a large Autobot insignia on it, made of an unknown alloy, which seemly explodes, revealing more robots within, demanding to know where Optimus Prime is!

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Injured by Phaser Fire

Ratchet - Ambulance

Bumblebee - VW Beetle

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Arcee - Sports Car

Jazz - Porsche

Decepticon

Megatron - Pistol

Soundwave - Cassette Player

Airachnid - Helicopter

Starscream - F15 Fighter Jet

Thundercracker - F15 Fighter Jet

Skywarp - F15 Fighter Jet

Acid Storm - F15 Fighter Jet

Ramjet - F15 Fighter Jet

Thrust - F15 Fighter Jet

Dirge - F15 Fighter Jet

Trypticon - Battle Station

Federation

Captain Kirk

Mr Spock

Sulu

M'Ress

Lt Arex

Uhura

Scotty

Doctor McCoy

Cignus Seven Mine Staff and Miners

Enterprise Medical Team (Mentioned)

Klingon

Commander Kuri

Klingon Warriors

Notes

• This mini-series is set in a universe based on the Star Trek animated TV series. The Transformers characters seem to be based on the 80's animated series as well, but it's unclear how this works yet (my guess would be time travel)
• Assuming time travel is involved, we can guess from the Transformers characters present that this story is set during the time skip between Season Two and the Movie
• The Star Trek setting is apparently set between Season One and Two of their series
• So...from the artwork it looks like the Decepticon laser fire doesn't really harm Optimus, but Kirk's phaser can cause him immense pain and damage
• Airachnid's resign is mostly just a simplification of her Prime counterpart, but with an added head-crest that features some extra eyes.
• Trypticon's role here is confusing to me, in the US media he was created in 2006 by the Constructicons, so he shouldn't be here really. However if we also take the Japanese Scramble City specials into account then he was created earlier, but just lost somewhen and rebuilt later. So maybe this will show us what happened to him between Scramble City and Season Three?