[1][2][3] The comic was issued as a five part mini-series and has met with favorable reviews for mixing the two science fiction universes.
[4] The comics are written by John Barber and Mike Johnson with art by Philip Murphy and Leonardo Ito as the colorist.
[5] Answering a distress call, members of the USS Enterprise, including Captain Kirk and Spock, arrive at a dilithium mine on the planet Cygnus Seven, near the Klingon border.
Following some misunderstandings and a mind-meld between Optimus Prime and Spock, Kirk learnes of the Autobots' situation and forms an alliance with them.
TheEnterprise comes to rescue in the transformed Fortress Tiberius, the Autobots, and several replicated battle suits of Cybertronian armor piloted by Spock, Scotty, Sulu, and M'ress.
[4] WhatCulture did not expect a good result from combining animated Star Trek and Transformers, yet they credited the IDW as making it work.