By Any Other Name

[scotpens]

They could have had female security personnel in TOS IF they had done two things. Firstly, the women would have needed an alternate uniform such as that seen in "The Cage" and WNMHGB, and secondly they only needed to take their example from Emma Peel in The Avengers.

Security Chief Emma Peel!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

^ Way to go!

 

[Pauln6]

Cool! Yeoman Ross was pretty handy in a fight too.

 

[ClayinCA]

A female crew woman was stabbed to death by the Jack the Ripper entity, commandeering the body of Scotty, in "Wolf in the Fold."

Actually, Scotty (or his body) isn't the killer - it's Hengist who does the killing. It's made clear that Scotty was in no way (not even physically) the murderer.

 

[Timo]

Not so clear at all. Scotty could have been the physical culprit in all the cases. And, for all we know, was.

Although in the seance, he was probably so closely monitored by everybody that Redjac would have needed to operate some other body to commit the stabbing. McCoy's would have been the most convenient one in that case...

And in the fog, Redjac would have needed one body (Hengist's?) to deliver the knife to the attack site, which makes it logistically somewhat superfluous to use another body (Scotty's) to deliver the actual stab, considering that Redjac can make Scotty look guilty merely by giving him suspicious amnesia at a suspicious time and place.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I agree; I'd like to know more about this point that has always confused me. ClayinCA, can you make the case why "it's made clear"?

 

[Timo]

...It's fairly clear that the writers had Scotty's innocence in mind, or if they didn't, were nevertheless forced to write so that Scotty would at least plausibly appear innocent. The standards of TV writing wouldn't have allowed for anything else. But the end result is all that really counts, and in that end result, it's quite possible that Scotty was indeed the physical agent of destruction.

And, for all we know, partially "guilty" of it, too, being more susceptible to Redjac's influence than anybody else because he already had a trauma-induced urge to do harm to the women around him.

Timo Saloniemi