2.36 : Wolf In The Fold.

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The one where Scotty takes a walk in the fog with a wee bonnie lass, and apparently kills her.

Robert Bloch, better known as the author of "Psycho", adapted this episode from his own short story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" which he also made into an episode of the "Thriller" series for Universal TV. In that, the Ripper was also a wandering alien life form with a long life span, and the Scotland Yard investigating Inspector was ultimately revealed as the entity.

First use of the Transporter as a weapon; transporting Redjac into space at maximum dispersion.

Scotty might need some further advice about taking a bonnie lass for a walk. When she was murdered he says that he was "up ahead, trying to lead the way." Isn't the whole idea to to be hand in hand, side by side, enjoying each others company?
 
Lackluster scenes with people talking about the clues lead to a denouement involving defeating a computer (with which the creature has united itself) by demanding that it compute the value of pi.

Clearly all the Klingons need to do to overwhelm the Federation is to demand that all the Fed starships compute the value of pi.

Cheesy and repetitive.

A groaner.
 
And now a cliché too (though Star Trek or Bloch can hardly be blamed for that.) The 2016 TV series (and 1979 film) Time after Time has Jack the Ripper (and HG Wells) in a murderous race through time. Jack the Ripper also features in hundreds of fictional novels, the number of which only seems to increase exponentially with time.
 
I seem to remember that Jack the Ripper turned up on Babylon 5.


EDIT: It was in:
the season 2 episode, Comes the Inquisitor.
 
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And now a cliché too (though Star Trek or Bloch can hardly be blamed for that.) The 2016 TV series (and 1979 film) Time after Time has Jack the Ripper (and HG Wells) in a murderous race through time. Jack the Ripper also features in hundreds of fictional novels, the number of which only seems to increase exponentially with time.
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I seem to remember an explosion of Jack the Ripper novels in '88 cashing in on the centenary.
 
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