S1E16 The Jihad

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Original Airdate 1/12/74

Kirk leads a party to retrieve a religious relic that was stolen. However, he is faced with sabotage from within the group by someone who doesn't want the relic to be found, which will trigger an intergalactic jihad.

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With a title like Jihad and knowing the insensitivity of the early 70's and early Star Trek in general, I was worried about what might happen.

I think the only thing that was really shocking though was when the amazon like girl tries repeatedly to get Kirk to forget stopping the galactic war to just have a little sex in the bushes. Kirk's response (surprisingly) is basically, yeah I like to get down with aliens (although she calls herself a human at least once) but now is not the time.

That doesn't sound that crazy.. except this was a children's show! Some of the 60's swung right into the 70's I guess.