Isso é abordado no episódio 1 "Reformatando" , Beast Machines, Season 1:
Cheetor: Did I miss something? This is Cybertron, right? Our home planet? I mean, why would our own kind shoot at us?
Rattrap: Heheheh, have ya looked in the mirror lately? Our 'own kind' don't recognize us in these lousy fur coats!
Cheetor: Not a problem. We just need to get to a Regeneration Chamber and debug this transforming glitch!
Rattrap: Hellooo? We're in da MIDDLE OF NOWHERE HERE!
Cheetor: (Feels pain in his servos; glitching continues) AAAGGGHHH!!
Optimus Primal: It's worse than I thought... If we don't Transform out of these Beast Modes soon, our operating systems will shut down... permanently.
-- Optimus Primal, Cheetor & Rattrap discuss about the transformation lock and Cybertron's major changes...
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Episódio 6 "Home Soil", Beast Machines, Season 2:
Botanica: Megatron's attack shorted out my ship, along with my higher reasoning protocols. My self-preservation circuits must have kicked in.
Optimus Primal: Which is why you were lashing out at us.
Botanica: Fortunately, your reformatting automatically rebooted my primary operating system.
-- Botanica is exhibiting symptoms of Megatron's virus. Optimus Primal reformats her. She recovers consciousness.