IDW - Star Trek vs Transformers #4

Title: Prime's Directive Part 4

Written by: John Barber & Mike Johnson

Art by: Philip Murphy

Colours by: Josh Burcham

Letters by: Christa Miesner

Edits by: Chase Marotz & David Mariotte

Plot

Fortress Tiberius and Trypticon start their brawl, and the smaller Cybertronians fight amongst themselves too. Amidst the chaos, Starscream sneaks away using a portable cloaking device and steals some Dilithium for his own goals and flies off planet, much to Megatron's fury.

Megatron terminates his alliance with the Klingons and attempts to kill them with his fusion cannon, but they are defended by Optimus, who engages with the Decepticon leader. Inside Fortress Tiberius, Kirk is having trouble controlling Fort Max's rage at Trypticon, but soon reaffirms himself and manages to defeat Trypticon.

Megatron, knowing they have lost, calls for a retreat, with him and his Decepticons boarding Trypticon they fly off. The Klingons are taken prisoner and the Autobots/Federation forces board Fotress Tiberius and they head off to find the real Enterprise.

The real Enterprise, which was crippled by the Decepticons earlier is still adrift, and the crew are shocked to see it's duplicate appear alongside them, as most of the Autobots and Federation personnel transport over to repair the vessel, before they chase after the Decepticons, since they know they are going after Starscream, and they also know where he is likely to head to...the Klingon's homeworld to conquer it.

As predicted, Starscream uses the Dilithium to travel to Kronos, the Klingon homeworld and prepares to conquer it for himself.... 

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Bumblebee - VW Beetle

Jazz - Porsche 

Arcee - Sports Car

Ratchet - Ambulance

Fortress Maximus/Fortress Tiberius - Copy of USS Enterprise 

Decepticon

Megatron - Pistol

Soundwave - Cassette Player

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Thundercracker - Fighter Jet

Dirge - Fighter Jet

Trypticon - Klingon D7 Class Battle Cruiser

Other Seekers - Fighter Jets

Federation

Captain Kirk

Commander Spock

Doctor McCoy

M'Ress

Sulu

Uhura

Lt Arex

Federation Personnel 

Klingon

Commander Kuri Captured by Enterprise crew

Kor Captured by Enterprise crew

Kaz Captured by Enterprise crew

Kali Captured by Enterprise crew

Notes

• Originally this series was supposed to be 4 issues long, but due to popularity it was extended an issue. This would imply that Starscream's sub-plot was added in last minute to give a mini-plot for the next issue to follow.
• Windblade forms a grid-image version of her face when in vehicle mode to communicate with Sulu, similar to the ones used in RID2001 and Rescue Bots, just without colour.