From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: The Jihad (TAS): my review   
      
   > A mad planet, Geologically unstable. Constant earthquakes, gravitic shifts,   
   tidal waves. The temperature varies from   
   > twenty Kelvin to two hundred and four above. Somewhere on that planet, the   
   Soul of Alar is hidden. Three expeditions   
   > have tried to recover it. Three expeditions have been lost. You are the   
   next, if you agree.   
      
   And speaking of this quote, am I the only one who's not exactly   
   brimming with confidence over this pronouncement?  They've lost three   
   expeditions, so they're going to do the exact same thing that's failed   
   three times before, without making any special effort to correct it.   
   Isn't that the definition of insanity?  I mean Kirk beamed down   
   security guards to Triacus, and then couldn't contact them, but his   
   answer wasn't "Let's keep beaming down more guards s until we   
   do."  (Although that would have been funny).   
      
   Are we supposed to believe that there was a traitor in each of the   
   previous three parties, or that they were killed in other ways?   
      
   That temperature range that the Vedala mentions, is -423 to -92, in   
   Fahrenheit.  In other words, the HOTTEST that it gets is 92 degrees   
   below zero Fahrenheit.  And yet, the whole mission seems to take place   
   in more-or-less shirt sleeve temperatures.  These Mad planets just   
   aren't as Mad as they're Cracked up to be.  (I'm trying to come up   
   with a similar comment about magazines, but it doesn't quite make   
   sense.)   
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