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Star Trek - Wolf in the Fold
episode 2.14
Raumschiff Enterprise - Der Wolf im Schafspelz
USA 1967
produced by Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Desilu, Norway Corporation/NBC
directed by Joseph Pevney
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, John Fiedler, Charles Macaulay, Pilar Seurat, James Doohan, George Takei, Charles Dierkop, Joseph Bernard, Tanya Lemani, John Winston, Virginia Aldridge, Judith McConnell, Judi Sherven
written by Robert Bloch, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Gerald Fried
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew), Jack the Ripper
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Scotty (James Doohan) is accused to have killed a dancing girl (Tanya
Lemani) whom he escorted home from the place she danced at on a pleasure
planet - and sure enough, the evidence is damning, he is found over the
victim holding the knife, and he claims to have no memory of the incident.
The authorities are somewhat baffled as murder is virtually unheard of on
this purely hedonistic planet. So Captain Kirk has Lt. Tracy (Virginia
Aldridge) beamed down with a device that will help find the truth - but
once she's left alone with Scotty, she turns up dead as well. Sybo (Pilar
Seurat), wife of the planet's ruler Jaris (Chales Macaulay), suggests a
seance - which culminates in her screaming out a few unrelated names, then
the lights go off, and when they go on again, she's dead, with Scotty
holding her body. Kirk suggests to take the whole investigation to the
Enterprise, and soon enough it's found out what the names Sybo screamed
mean, those of serialkillers across the galaxy, one of them being a lesser
known alias for Jack the Ripper - and it turns out Jack the Ripper's
actually on board the Enterprise ... the pleasure planet's Federation
administrator Hengist (John Fiedler), who has used his position to kill
across the galaxy. Of course, he's apprehended in the end and beamed into
outer space. This episode really falls into two parts, with the
first, the planet-bound part being properly creepy, with Scotty as a
possible serialkiller and a séance, with the set design really lending
itself to the dark goings-on. Once the story is moved to the Enterprise
though it gets silly - it really seems that the need to exonerate Scotty
was overriding everything else, thus a space-travelling evil entity that
once was Jack the Ripper, which is not only far fetched, the concept is
also too close to the very previous episode Obsession.
Now would the story have stayed closer to its horror roots, it might have
worked fine, but the forced sci-fi finale doesn't do it any benefit -
which is a pity.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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