"Wolf in the Fold" | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series episode | |
Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 14 |
Directed by | Joseph Pevney |
Written by | Robert Bloch |
Featured music | Gerald Fried |
Cinematography by | Jerry Finnerman |
Production code | 036 |
Original air date | December 22, 1967 |
Guest appearance(s) | |
John Winston - Lt. Kyle |
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John Winston - Lt. Kyle
John Fiedler - Administrator Hengist
Charles Macaulay - Prefect Jaris
Pilar Seurat - Sybo
Joseph Bernard - Tark
Charles Dierkop - Morla
Tania Lemani - Kara
Judy McConnell - Yeoman Tankris
Virginia Aldridge - Lt. Karen Tracy
Judi Sherven - Nurse
Eddie Paskey - Lt. Leslie
William Blackburn - Lt. Hadley
"Wolf in the Fold" is a second season episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. It is episode #43, production #36, and was broadcast on December 22, 1967. It was written by Robert Bloch, and directed by Joseph Pevney.
In the episode, a series of horrific murders of women, on a world where such things never happen, points to Mr. Scott as the prime suspect.
On stardate 3614.9, Captain James T. Kirk, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy, and Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott of the Federation starship USS Enterprise are enjoying therapeutic shore leave at a night club on planet Argelius II. Scotty is introduced to Kara, a dancer at the club, and leaves with her. As Kirk and McCoy make their way through an evening fog to another club, they hear a scream, and find the dancer dead on the ground and Scotty standing against a nearby wall, clutching a bloody knife.
Scott is detained and interrogated by Mr. Hengist, an administrator from Rigel IV and head of Argelius's police operations. Jaris, the Prefect of the planet, appears and bids his wife, Sybo, employ the Argelian empathic contact to determine the truth. While she prepares for the ritual, Lieutenant Karen Tracy, an Enterprise medical specialist, beams down with a psycho-tricorder, interviews Scott, and is murdered. The evidence again points to Scott.