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Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner in Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973)

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The Jihad

Star Trek: The Animated Series

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Continuity

Just before the party starts climbing the walls toward the end, Kirk is shown wearing a big white belt for a few frames. It's gone when he's shown again.
Tchar flies ahead after scouting ahead, then Kirk announces he's going to scout ahead. Seems redundant.

Factual errors

The group is briefed that the temperatures on the mad planet range from 20 Kelvin to 204 Kelvin. They equates to -423.7°F to -92.5°F, which is decidedly not what is seen on the planet.
The title is incorrect. There is no jihad. Just the threat of one about to occur.

Revealing mistakes

In the wide-shot as the Vedala female first speaks (1:57), her mouth doesn't move. Later at the end of the mission, she speaks again in the same wide-shot, but this time her mouth moves when she does.

Plot holes

Kirk surmises that the three previous expeditions (gone without a trace) didn't get as far as they've gotten. There is no evidence to support such a statement. No evidence that anyone came before them at all.
On a mineral planet with no plant life, Sord declares he thought he saw something moving in the brush. What brush?
Kirk says there's no way to tell what's happened to their team member (carried away by the flying sentinel) as "the mechanical exploded." Was that the one he blew up or the one Spock blew up? There was no explosion from the one that carried away their team member, so what is Kirk talking about?

Character error

The Vedala states that the temperature on the mad planet "varies from 20 Kelvin to 204 above." All Kelvin temperatures are "above," as the scale begins at zero.
Once the door of the temple is opened, Kirk talks of taking a rest for a while. The others talk of pressing on, particularly Spock. It's a lot of needless talk at the easiest part of the adventure, walking through a door.
The "mad planet" is geologically unstable, with tidal waves, constant earthquakes, gravitic shifts and wildly changing temperatures, where (says Spock) the surface shifts constantly; but, instead of an ever-changing landscape from visibly shifting tectonic plates (as indicated), there's rain, snow, sunshine and erupting volcanoes with lava flows.

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