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#87: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 16 "The Jihad"
Written by Chuck Menville & Len Janson, directed by Hal Sutherland
Stardate 5683.1 (early 2269)
"We're tired, sore, hurt, and angry. But we're also just about there." - Captain Kirk
Captain Kirk and Commander Spock are invited to take part in a multi-species expedition to find a religious artifact that was stolen so that it can be returned before word of the theft gets out. The publicizing of the theft could ignite a jihad across the entire galaxy, so an elite team has been assembled to recover it quickly. To make matters worse, the planet the artifact has been hidden on is geologically unstable, resulting in unexpected lava flows and other extreme dangers. The group must leverage their individual strengths to keep everyone else safe from the myriad of natural dangers as well as each other.
Originally released: 12 January 1974
"The Jihad" on Memory Alpha (mirror)
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