"The Secret of Cybertron" was a proposed script by writer Flint Dille and creative director Jay Bacal, hastily produced after they read Ron Friedman's original script for The Transformers: The Movie and deemed it "incoherent." Although hugely proud and excited about the script they had created, Dille and Bacal were disappointed to discover that executive producers Joe Bacal and Tom Griffin did not share their enthusiasm, and "The Secret of Cybertron" was promptly "filed away."