Season Guide
Beast Wars: Transformers Season 3
Season 3 Review
⚠ Spoiler alert Season notes below reveal how the story develops.
Season 3 of Beast Wars: Transformers premiered 1998-10-25 and ran 13 episodes through 1999-05-07.
Episodes
1
Summary As the Maximals begin to fade from the time stream, Blackarachnia switches sides and saves Optimus Prime with a life support machine. The time storm fades, but Prime is…
2
Summary Depth Charge, a Maximal from Colony Omicron, arrives on planet Earth looking for Protoform X, wanting revenge on Rampage for killing his comrades long ago. Depth Charge’s frustration alienates…
3
Summary After failing to set up base defenses, the Maximals attempt to salvage Sentinel from the wreckage of the Axalon. Rattrap pilots a submarine into the submerged ship, where he…
4
Summary Megatron sends several prototype Transmetal II cyber raptors to attack the early humans and the Maximals. Depending on who perfects it first, the new technology has great potential in…
5
Summary Megatron creates a Transmetal II clone of Dinobot, and Cheetor and Depth Charge attempt to interrupt the process; instead, Cheetor is presumed dead after he is exposed to the…
6
SummaryAfter returning to base, Cheetor has nightmares and soon transforms into the beast from the previous episode. The other Maximals begin to hunt the creature, unaware that it is Cheetor.…
7
Summary When Blackarachnia overhears Optimus and Rhinox discussing her Predacon reprogramming by Tarantulus, she comes to believe that Optimus has decided to surgically remove Blackarachnia’s Predacon core without regard for…
8
Summary Megatron kidnaps a young protohuman, Una, to finish a giant disruptor ray that targets Cybertronians. Una follows her directions from Megatron but Rattrap and Depth Charge arrive and save…
9
SummaryBlackarachnia attempts to become a Transmetal II with the help of the alien device she had stolen. However, thanks to the intervention of Silverbolt, the experiment takes a terrible turn…
10
Summary During an attack on the Maximal base, Optimus is hit with a burrowing cyberbug that allows Quickstrike to take control of his body. Tarantulas and Quickstrike form an alliance…
11
Summary Quickstrike is put to trial for his betrayal of Megatron, but it is interrupted when the Vok send Tigerhawk, a supernatural fusion of Tigatron and Airazor, to stop Megatron’s…
12
Summary With the destruction of the Predacon base, Megatron is forced into a corner once again as the Maximals hunt for him. Megatron sends Inferno, Waspinator, and Quickstrike to find…
13
Summary The Nemesis has proven to be powerful and dangerous under the now insane Megatron, killing both Maximals and Predacons alike. Tigerhawk is destroyed with a large energy cannon, and…