Star Trek: Wolf in the Fold (1967)
Season 2, Episode 14
7/10
At least the green dancer wasn't the one killed.
23 December 2006
Warning: Spoilers
This is an interesting space detective episode but with gaps in the plot. Seems Scotty is now a woman-hater after an accident on the Enterprise so what does the ship's doctor and captain do? Why, take him to a belly-dancing show, of course! Scott then leaves with another man's fiancée (the dancer) and is later found unconscious and the woman dead. Later, more women are found killed with only Scotty in the room. We later learn from a séance that this is the work of an entity named Redjac who came to Earth and became Jack the Ripper. Red=blood, Jac= Jack the Ripper, get it? Anyway, Redjac is soon dealt with by being dispersed into space. My question is, did Redjac possess Scotty and kill the girls all those times thus explaining his memory loss or did that administrator knock Scotty unconscious TWICE in 3 different places and killed the women? That's a heck of a co-incidence for the killer to know where Scotty was in order to frame him. Still, the entity's howling when it takes over the Enterprise computer is chilling but seeing a serial killer on tranquilizers saying "you're all going to die" and giggling was quite funny. Not one of best episodes but very good nonetheless. See it for the dancer.
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