Golden Disk (disambiguation)

Don't leave them alone together. They multiply.

You can't swing adead catinTransformerswithout hitting aGolden Disk.

Beast Warsintroduced a sensible two:

• TheSounds of Earthrecord from the 1977Voyagerspace probe.
• AVok artifactthat bears an uncanny(but probably coincidental)resemblance to theVoyagerdisk.

Beast Machineshad two in a throwaway scene withOptimus Primeholding some in amemorialoutside theCybertron Archives.WriterBob Skirclaims that neither the statue nor the golden disks in its hands were mentioned in the script. However, hesuggestedthat they were either thedisksfrom the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, or that Optimus won them in the 2,395,989th Annual Cybertronian spelling bee. We're betting on the latter.

More followed like roaches in theDreamwaveGeneration Onecontinuity:

• A compilation of thewisdom of past Primes.
• Anancient artifactfrom Cybertron's distant past.
• Itssister-diskonParadronthat holds the secrets of Transformer evolution.

Takarawas not to be left out, writing of yet anotherGolden Diskthat was the mysterious power source of a mysterious vessel under mysterious circumstances.

Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II,being a trove of references, would have been remiss to not have aGolden Disk.

YetanotherGolden Disk shows up in theRegeneration Oneportion of theMarvel Comics continuity.This one, however,turns out to bea version of theCovenant of Primus.

Beast Wars: UprisinghasBiskstumble on a golden disk stashed beneath the ruins ofIacon.In the writings of theBook of Logos,the book'swritersees a vision ofsevenof the damn things.

Also,Transformers Animated Kellogg's Eggo waffles:Moist, delicious repositories of wisdom.