Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV Series) The Jihad (1974) User Reviews

The Badger Cat & The Eagle Turkey...

[Xstal · 5/10 · 28 February 2022]

Curious capers unwind and unravel, with arthritic beasts gather aliens for travel, in search of a ribbon that's shiny and glows, for why and what reason just nobody knows.

It's anyone's guess what's going on here and the use of certain terminology doesn't really help matters.

Yikes...

[Samuel-Shovel · 1/10 · 3 January 2019]

I think somebody over at the animation studio mixed up the script of a He-Man episode with a Star Trek one. That's the only explanation I can come up with for why this episode could possibly exist. This is a bunch of nonsense.

I usually write a brief summation of the plot with each review but this one isn't even worth it. The entire concept is extremely flawed and bizarre. Quite the way to end this first season...

As good as it gets for Animated Trek!

[idahobeef · 10/10 · 28 September 2016]

Wow I just love love loved this animated episode of Star Trek! ST snobs wont like it, but it was very well done. In fact, those snobs don't like ANY of the animated Star Treks, which is sad indeed. In this episode there was excitement and danger, a perilous journey, and new aliens galore! Because it was so well done, this episode inspired me to write in the Star Trek universe. One of the best things about animation is you can create aliens that cannot be made on the regular ST shows; the bug alien, or the can alien, or bird alien in this episode. For animated Star Trek, it doesn't get much better than this! I especially like Skorr and his people, and the possibility of a interstellar jihad. Thats a wicked cool concept that really hasn't been done in ST. AAA+++

Say It With Me: "It's Just a Saturday Morning Cartoon"

[Hitchcoc · 4/10 · 21 March 2017]

I'm not a Star Trek snob. I am, however, a fan. I'm just watching these animated things for the first time. Generally, they lack much effort from the writers. Part of it is the time limitations imposed on the episodes. You have to tell a pretty sophisticated story in about twenty minutes (if you throw out the credits). This is unfair and makes the writers jump over all kinds of exposition and foundation. The only Star Trek stuff we had when these were released were the original episodes. I would imagine the true early fans would have had a really limited understanding of the strengths and the foibles of the characters. The Klingons and the Vulcans have almost no development at this point (which is certainly made greater when "The Next Generation" comes about. Spock continues with that percentage thing at every turn. The chance we will be killed is 74.79 percent. Klingons are just humans with sort of a blackness about them. This story, "Jihad," involves a group of diverse aliens who are trying to recover some relic that, if not found, will lead to a galactic war. Never quite figured out why. Anyway, there's my two cents worth. This episode is not very interesting to be quite honest.

What the....?!

[planktonrules · 4/10 · 11 April 2015]

I have no idea what I just saw...it was THAT weird and the characters THAT strange! A stupid catlike creature in an odd pink jumpsuit calls a diverse group of beings to go on a mission to find the stolen Soul of Skorr--some holy relic. It seems that it being missing might cause some jihad. So the group of freaks (including not just Spock and Kirk but a lizard guy, a bird-man, a big green pupae and an amazonish lady who thinks Kirk is hot) goes in search of it. The problem is that there is a traitor among them and their motivations seem pretty lame.

This is an average (for this series) episode. The plot is a bit silly and the characters REALLY silly. And, as usual, the animation is just crap--with low cell-counts and as a result robotic movements from the characters.