Kirk: "I hear you, Bones... But, the power..." Spock: "Captain, you've got the touch. You've got the power."

"Megatron, who is inside of Starscream for some reason..." Mr. Sulu, will you do the honors? "Oh, my..."

"Space...The final frontier... These are the voyages of the starship Fortress Maximus... To seek out new life and new civilizations... To Boldly Roll, Where no Autobot has Rolled out before!"🖖🖖🖖

"if leaders really wanted to die with honour, they'd be on a battlefield" never thought I'd agree with starscream on something, but here we are.

"I want a Toy of it.....Now! If they can make Ecto-1 into a Transformer, then they can do it for Fortress Tiberious" ~Linkara March 24th, 2020. These words are possible some of the most funny and yet true words of any fan of crossover media,

Kirk: Sternly asks the Decepticons who are *actively firing on him* to cease and desist Also Kirk: Opens fire on Optimus Prime without provocation the literal moment he sees him

Huh. I just realised that the Prime Directive is basically "They live 'Over There' and 'Over There' has to sort out its own problems."

The "awkward bladed weapon" crack was pretty perfect. I'm not a Transformers fan, but I like the way this Starscream thinks.

Optimus Prime: "Oh, uh... I think there was this probe from Earth that came to Cybertron at some point a long time ago... V-something... We gave it a lot of upgrades and it will probably show up in a few years. Might want to look into that."

I love how Linkara points out the fact that Replicators don't exist yet in the timeline. So many people seem to forget that. Also Soundwave is always awesome.

I agree with Linkara: There absolutely needs to be a toy of the Autoprise-to-Fortress-Tiberius transformer!

Star Trek TAS was weird, stilted, oddly paced, perhaps even bad, but incredibly entertaining and I love it.

I appreciate that this comic took newer Transformers to round out the cast; this marked the first time Windblade was drawn in a G1 art-style (she was introduced in the comics just a few years ago, and has become a mainstay of the animated series since then), and Airachnid had only appeared in the CG Transformers Prime cartoon (fun fact: that cartoon is in continuity with the War for Cybertron games... and the extremely aimed-at-a-preschool-audience Transformers: Rescue Bots). Also, Airachnid planning on keeping Kirk as a pet is a good continuity-wink; she had the same designs for Jack Darby in Transformers Prime.

The scarier thing would be if Unicron and the Borg were together.

'-it's still a weird, sortuv' goofy idea.' ...You mean like the idea of metallic aliens who can shape-shift into cars teaming up with a diverse team of space scientists who traveled through time just to save humpback whales? Dude, goofy is what keeps this planet spinning! The goofier the better, I say!

TNG sequel to this would be amazing with all the possibilities. Megatron coming back as Galvatron, the Decepticons allying with the Borg, Unicron and the Borg fighting one another for who can devour/assimilate the universe.

I know how Linkara feels about crossovers that should have happened sooner, I'm still waiting for Boom Studios to do The Dark Crystal meets Labyrinth.

The crossover we didn’t know we wanted...But still so glorious just by knowing it exists

I don't care if I have little to no familiarity with Star Trek, any comic with Windblade in it is a must grab in my eyes.

I do admit the idea of unicorn and the Borg teaming up would be awesome.

"It appears to resemble an overly-large metal version of the extinct Earth creature Tyrannosaurus Rex." "We should be more concerned about this planet if it is accompanied by robotic versions of a wooly mammoth, a pterodactyl, a sabretooth tiger and a triceratops."

Linkara, you realize that if they used the live-action appearances of Star Trek characters they would have had to use the Michael Bay Transformers. I think this sacrifice was worth it.

If only they had that inflatable starship decoy they had in The Animated Series. Yes, that is a thing that existed. Same episode as the Proto-Holodeck, too.

“A more logical form would be a flying saucer” Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure Cosmos is PEEVED that he wasn’t in this crossover!

I loved it when Arex and M'Ress were ported in to the New Frontier novels. Anyone who shipped those two would certainly get a kick out of it. ;)

21:11 ...actually in the IDW comics, believe it or not, MEGATRON was the one who defected to the Autobots while Soundwave only became a neutral party later on after mind-melding with humans and some casual damning blackmail threats by Optimus :)

It's even more chessy and insane and glorious than I could possibly imagine.

I actually think using the Animated Series designs works rather well, since they're using the more simplistic G1 designs rather than the more modern evergreen designs. Also, is everyone excited for the certainly-going-to-be-awesome-no-way-it-could-fail New Warriors series launching soon? Everyone is focusing on Snowflake and Safespace, but I'm curious to see what "experimental Internet gas" looks like.

Last week, when you announced you were covering this, I thought, "If the Enterprise doesn't turn into a Transformer, I will be very disappointed." I am not disappointed.

Gotta say, I love the art on this one because it FEELS like animation from the 70's and 80's, complete with a little shadow on the cells. Even if you don't like Star Trek: The Animated Series, you got to admit they got all the details right.

Huh, they included Acid Storm in this crossover. Neat.

It's not like Spock hasn't mind melded with intelligent machines before! Nomad and V-ger come to mind!

I actually was marathoning all your Trek reviews in leadup to this, so your jokes in The Motion Picture comic about Vger coming from a planet populated by machines and the Decepticons getting ahold of Vger is even funnier now. What’s sad though is that Enterprise toy may not even happen. Hasbro created the COLLABORATIVE toyline for crossover character toys and stories...and so far all we got out of it is Ghostbusters.

Yes, Star Trek: the Animated Series is pretty stupid. But it also somehow got the franchise its first Emmy win, so wrap your head around that one.

In the Revolution crossover Soundwave didn't become an Autobot Soundwave was actually the Decepticon leader and was working with the Autobots since the war was over

You know, ever since they made a Ghostbusters crossover vehicle, I've been interested in seeing more crossover Transformers made, like say, the obscure Decepticon Octus from the UK Marvel Transformers comics whose alternate form is a Dalek. A Titan Class Fortress Tiberius would probably be unlikely, but it would be so very worth it. Then again, after Season 3 of the Transformers: Cyberverse series, I desperately want Titan Class figures of Iaconus, Croaton, and the Dweller.

"The only honor is victory by any means". Well damn. Megatron should head a few thousand lightyears north and hook up with the Dominion. Actually I wonder if they might trust him more cause he's technically a shape shifter and non organic

Thank you for posting this hope you and your loved ones are alright in these unusual times. From a fan in the Philippines like most people in the world we are pretty much self quarantined as well. Thanks for this entertaining video.

Great episode, now Linkara only has the Star Trek crossovers with The Legion of Super Heroes, Planet of the Apes, and the sequel to Star Trek/Green Lantern left to review. :)

I LOVE TAS!!!! I liked it kind of followed up some episodes. It is a fun series. I hope we see Arex and M'Ress in live action some day. Star Trek related question: what do you think of Discovery and Picard?

Things we need in the Sequel (feel free too add your own ideas:) Spock meets Shockwave/interacts more with Soundwave. A new config for Fortress Maximus that splices Cybertronian and Federation Designs. A bird or prey config for Trypticon, possibly with his dino head as opposed to a more avian look. Chess with autobots in a more relaxed moment. Autobots sharing some off panel TOS style weirdness and Kirk brushing it off. Bigger cast of Cybertronians and more characterization for the autobots.

I once read a fanfic were a character's telepathy evolved into technopathy. The basis of this was that both powers revolved around manipulating electric signals in a way.

The animated series may not be perfect, but it did introduce the holodeck, revealed Kirk's middle name as Tiberius, and was the first Trek show to win an emmy.

I am sad Starscream never said “Megatron is dead now I lead the decepticons”

10:04 I mean, as seen with Kirk and Fort Max in this crossover, Headmaster technology was literally designed to interface Transformer CPUs with the minds of organic life forms and Cityspeakers like Windblade are psychics who specialize in communicating with dormant titans like Croaton in Cyberverse (she also tried this with [spoilers] in spite of Maccadam saying it was a bad idea but it didn't work). It's actually a huge missed opportunity that Windblade and Spock don't have any interactions regarding this.

15:07 - *Cyberman:* "There is... logic... in what he says."

Honestly, I can see Jazz lashing out. After everything they went through with humans, and all the time that has passed, they're still getting shot at like they're the same as the Decepticons. Also, Optimus getting shoot by panicked humans an then taking the brunt of the suffering for them, also totally on brand for him. Dude is robot Jesus, complete with suffering for all others. Also was that smirk about how he only had one life to lay down over how he keeps dying and coming back in several continuities, or am I missing something? Like I said, robot Jesus.

Man, Optimus gets shot to pieces more times in his franchise than a Red Shirt in Star Trek.

Man, Star Trek crosses over with EVERYTHING.

Now we need a Star Trek comic crossover with Gilligan's Planet.

Honestly, not too big on Star Trek but I do like this. Honestly, they could have made a whole anthology of these like Picard and Prime facing off against the board or a more emotional story with Voyager where Janeway and Prime work together to get injured crew and autobots out of a hostile area... although there has to be a moment where Janeway cuts down Starscream with her words... before her ship blasts him out of the sky.

My one hope for a sequel to this is megatron becoming galvatron and interacting with spock

Man, just imagine all the precautions Starfleet would have to take to prevent any Transformer from disguising as one of their ships to sneak in and attack.

I will defend your right to state your opinion that Star Trek TAS overall is not a very good series; what I will not accept is the fact that you didn’t acquiesce to these three things about it 1) Filmation (the animation studio behind the series) was originally just going to cast William Shatner, DeForest Kelly, and Leonard Nimoy to play their respective characters while everyone else would be voiced on the cheap by Majel Barrett and James Doohan. However, Nimoy refused to come on board unless George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, and Walter Koenig were also hired to play their respective characters. 2) The writing (at least on the handful of good episodes) tended to be on par with the original series, that is to say it was a slightly more serious show compared to other animated properties at the time 3) Yesteryear is, without a doubt, the best episode the animated series has to offer

Y'know, I'm not a Star Trek fan, but I must admit to having a newfound bile fascination in the animated series after your description. I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more of it.

That sounds like a fun series to read. I'm going to show my age here, but I was exposed to Star Trek on Saturday morning thanks to Filmation's animated series. So I do have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for the series. Having said that I'll be looking for this comic series. Thank you and the Patreon viewer who requested this awesome review. Live long and ROLL OUT!

I'm noticing the comic's artwork is even emulating the shadows cast sometimes by cells on the background.

Even in the likely event that TOS torpedoes were weaker, that's probably still too way much for danger close since they seemed to be the real heavy hitters of a warship's compliment.

Megatron: "Imagine if you joined the Autobots, Soundwave! That'd be ridiculous." Soundwave: "...uh, you sure about that, Megatron?" Megatron: "Wait, what do you mean?"

I didn’t know transformers and Star Trek ever did a crossover because that sounds fun

I remember when this series was coming out. I also remember the later issues were ABSURDLY late, to the point that I didn't pick up the last issue because I lost interest. Not a bad story though, imo. Good content as always!

Always nice to see crossover comics where it feels like the people who made it had fun doing so.

You know, there are times when I have lost all hope... and then I see the Enterprise turn into a freaking Transformer and then my hope is restored.

Ha, child's play, My Torture has five stages: The Motion Picture on slow, Spock's Brain, The Final Frontier, Threshold and Insurrection.

I'm just waiting for the day Lewis review the Transformers and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover comic. No, I am not kidding. That's actually happening.

TNG, DS9 and Voyager sequels would have been wonderful for this crossover: TNG and Voyager for obvious reasons (the Transformers interacting with Data and Seven, the Borg teaming up with Unicron and a possible team-up between Starscream and Lore or Romulans), and DS9 cause the Dax symbiont was obviously alive at that time, so you can have a scene where Jadzia (or Ezri) approaches the Autobots like old friends but they have no idea who she is, cause they only remember Dax's previous host(s).

Yes, TAS may be bad, but consider: G1 Transformers cartoon was also bad. It fits!

I personally love the characters in the animated series, mostly M'ress and Arex

So, they turned Kirk into a godmaster?

I love bringing this up whenever i can: did you guys know there's a Transformer named after Captain Picard? tfwiki.net/wiki/Ikard

I actually read this one after hearing what the comic would be this week. It was quite the blast XD

Can I just say, Linkara your starscream impression is so good.

Space, the final frontier. This is voyages of the starship Ark. EDIT: Not the first time Starscream would rule over a planet.

I'm very thankful that they weren't so faithful to the animated series as to keep M'ress's occasional wall-eyed expressions. I know the show had a shoestring budget, but the least they could do is make it so her pupils were facing the same goddamn direction the whole time.

"I want a toy of it!"

Id like to see swindle try to like scam quark from deep space nine now thanks to this crossover

With all the comic crossovers that have been made lately, I'm still waiting for a third Star Trek/X-Men book.

Filmation’s animation style could be cringe worthy at times. They used a LOT of stock footage. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was very guilty of that. However, it did save on animation costs, so there’s that. The Transformers has a lot of crossovers recently. Ghosts of Cybertron was a lot of fun. Seeing Venkman give Starscream crap was worth the cover price alone.

Now I want to see how Voyager 6 lands on Cybertron and is Transformed into V'ger.

Is nobody else going to bring up the fact that M'Res is one of the earliest and best examples of furry fanservice to grace the world and the internet needs MUCH more fan-art of her? XD Also it'd be really cool if the TNG crew met the Maximals and Predacons, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!~

Huh, pretty hot take on Star Trek TAS. I've heard it's actually good

Really Good Reveiw! And yes watch Optimus Prime Join the Star Trek Fleet and get beat the crap out of him again and again and again, so the Star Trek Crew may get some spotlight!

A Borg Unicron! Why hasn't there been at least official art of that?!

And the day after you post this, we get Transformers vs Terminator. This really is the year of the weird crossovers.

I see linkara also acknowledges that Picard while a good show has it's flaws.

I like that the characters all have drop shadows like they're actual animation cels.

Marissa Picard... wow that was a reference I never expected you to make.

Well, to be fair Soundwave didn't defect to the Autobots in that continuity but just allied the Decepticons with them. Megatron on the other end...

The effort on making the artwork look like each of the originals is amazing.

"Like a vast predatory Warbird"

Now I want Skybound to do a crossover between Invincible and Transformers Animated.

4:52 Seeing a Cat Girl in Star Trek makes me happy and want to give her creator a hug

Now we need a beat poetry version of Shatner "singing" You got the Touch by Stan Bush.

17:47 looks more like Spock is resisting the urge to dance "Spock what are you doing?" "I can't help it, the vibrations...make...me...want...to...BOOGIE!"

Fortress Tiberius is cool. I had never even considered a Transformer Enterprise, but now it needs to be reality. Also, agreed, a sequel to this would be really cool, too.

Since you've been on a roll with Transformers content in the past half year (roll, ha), might I suggest Dinobots: Maximum or Last Stand of the Wreckers?

17:20 that line will forever be engraved from every toy collector out there

17:18 Hasbro please make a toy out of this.

"I want a toy of it... Now" Fucking all of us want it!

Can we get a Transformers G1 cartoon abridged where Louis voices ALL the characters?