From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: The Jihad (TAS): my review   
      
   On Oct 9, 7:15apm, "jph...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
   > The Vedala, the oldest-known race in the galaxy,   
   Or, at least the oldest one that will associate with us at all, rather   
   than just say "Call on us in 10,000 years or so, when you're   
   civilized".   
   >call on Kirk and Spock to join an expedition of highly skilled members of   
   disparate alien races on a perilous mission. They will be transported   
   >to a world known as "the mad planet," to recover a stolen artifact belonging   
   to the Skorr.   
   And if any of them are caught or killed, the magistrate will disavow   
   any knowledge of their actions.   
   > The child-friendly animated series has afforded Kirk very little chance to   
   flirt with "Space Babes." This episode remedies that, as Kirk enjoys some   
   nicely suggestive banter >with Lara (Jane Webb), a scout who flatly tells him   
   that she finds him attractive. During the mission, Kirk only allows things to   
   go so far.   
   Sounds like Maxwell Smart's comment in Nude Bomb.  "I never fool about   
   during a mission.  Before the mission, maybe.  After the mission,   
   definitely, but during the mission, never."   
   >an unusual exchange to find in a Saturday morning cartoon!   
   This is Horndog Kirk we're talking about.  We're lucky he didn't say   
   "Right here, right now, during the commercial."   
   >The animated series' first season finale is also one of the series' better   
   episodes, if short of the series' very best. It's an episode that would   
   probably play quite well to gamers, >as you have Kirk and Spock teamed with a   
   set of characters who owe more than a little to the heroic fantasy tradition.   
   With their comrades including a thief, a scout, and a >warrior, all on a quest   
   to retrieve a precious item, it's practically a Star Trek/Dungeons & Dragons   
   crossover!   
   Except that Trek came first.  D&D wasn't around for another year or   
   so.  Trek got the idea from the same kind of places that D&D did.   
   > On the whole, an energetic, fast-paced 25 minutes, which passes in an   
   eyeblink. Deduct at least one point from my score if you're particularly   
   bothered when TAS episodes >just don't feel much like Trek.   
   I wouldn't deduct the point, as there are similar TOS episodes.  It's   
   a bit like Savage Curtain, only better.   
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