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00:00You're watching BBC2. Welcome to the Enterprise Zone.
00:17Hailing frequencies open, sir.
00:23Robson and Jerome did it. Terry Wogan did it.
00:26Anita Dobson did it. Even Richard Harris did it.
00:29And Star Trek's original cast also did their bit.
00:32Unfortunately, it's a time-honored tradition for television stars
00:35to turn their talents to song.
00:37John Peel now unearths some perhaps best-forgotten musical offerings
00:41from Shatner and Crew.
00:59You won't find the best music in the high street.
01:07Aficionados know that the real golden nuggets of our recorded heritage
01:10are to be found in the back of the bargain bins.
01:13Supreme amongst the great lost recordings of the 60s and 70s
01:16are the various records made by the members of the Starship Enterprise.
01:20These records aren't going to exactly blow your mind,
01:22but they're going to breathe on it pretty heavily.
01:24In 1970, Bill Shatner recorded an album for Decca Records called The Transformed Man.
01:30On it, he invented a whole new musical style
01:33that combined orchestral arrangements
01:35with Shatner's dramatic interpretation of singing.
01:38Picture yourself on a train in a station
01:48with plasticine porters, with looking-glass ties.
01:53Suddenly, someone is there at the turnstile.
01:59The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
02:06Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
02:11Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
02:15Obviously, such an original vocal style couldn't be kept under wraps,
02:18and it wasn't too long before Bill shared his talent
02:20with the US viewing public on the 1972 Diner Show.
02:29I've got something inside me
02:32to drive a princess blind.
02:35There's a wild man, wizard, he's hiding in me,
02:39illuminating my mind.
02:42I've got something inside me,
02:45not what my life's about,
02:47cause I've been letting my outside tide me over
02:52till my time's running.
02:56Baby's so high, she's skying.
03:10Yeah, she's flying, afraid to fall.
03:17I'll tell you why Baby's crying.
03:24Cause she's dying.
03:28Aren't we all?
03:31I've been entranced with music for the longest time,
03:34and the bane of my life is I really can't sing.
03:38But I found that to move an audience and move myself
03:43is accomplished so much more easily
03:47and so much more effectively with music.
03:49And I'm kind of feeling my way into an area that I'm discovering.
03:53And here she's acting happy inside her handsome home.
04:00And me?
04:02I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips and getting stoned.
04:08I go flying so high when I'm stoned.
04:18When I'm stoned.
04:29Mighty strong stuff I'm sure you'll agree.
04:31Like his character, Shatner knew a thing or two about women
04:34and couldn't resist putting his rules of love to music.
04:40How to handle a woman?
04:45There's a way, said a wise man.
04:49A way known by every woman since the whole rigmarole began.
04:56But do I flatter her?
05:01I beg to answer.
05:03Do I frighten, cajole, or plead?
05:08Do I brood or play the gay romancer?
05:14Said he smiled.
05:17How big to me.
05:20How to handle a woman?
05:25Mark me well.
05:29I will tell you sir.
05:31The way to handle a woman is to love her.
05:41Simply love her.
05:45Merely love her.
05:49Love her.
05:53Love her.
05:57Love her.
06:05Never one to be outdone by his captain, Leonard Nimoy also embarked on his own musical mission.
06:09His 1966 debut LP, Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space, crashed into the billboard charts at number 83.
06:16Prime amongst his Spock-related work was this little toe-tapper, highly illogical.
06:28From far beyond the galaxies, I've journeyed to this place to study the behavior patterns of the human race.
06:37And I find them highly illogical.
06:41Totally, completely, absolutely irrevocable, highly illogical.
06:55Inspired by the warm audience response, Leonard realized he didn't need Spock to further his musical career and went solo.
07:02He released seven classic albums, mostly on the dot label, from 1966 to 1970.
07:08The way to handle a woman.
07:10Frilled to the sounds of Touch of Leonard Nimoy.
07:12Don't take your love to town.
07:14Two sides of Leonard Nimoy.
07:16Everybody's talking ass.
07:19And Leonard Nimoy's The Way I Feel.
07:21Because you're mine.
07:23I walk the line.
07:25Nimoy had no qualms about kick-starting his vocal Harley Davidson and aiming it down the highway of American folk.
07:31Take it away, Leonard.
07:32Well, if I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land.
07:45I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning, I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land.
07:58Well, I have a hammer, and I have a bell, and I have a song, a song to sing all over this land.
08:16It's the hammer of justice.
08:20It's the bell of freedom, all over this land.
08:30Some critics have said that the logical step was to stop with that triumph.
08:37But luckily for us, Leonard persevered with almost Vulcan-like tenacity, theming his next track around Tolkien's The Hobbit.
08:44This tune, The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, clearly influenced the young Led Zeppelin.
08:48Sit back and enjoy this rare archive gem.
08:51In the middle of the earth, in the land of Shire, lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire.
09:02With his bong with hight, with fuzzy woolly toes, he lives in a hobbit hole and everybody knows him.
09:08Bilbo, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins, he's only speaking tall.
09:14Bilbo, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins, the ravest little hobbit of the whole.
09:25Now, hobbits are these little folks, you know.
09:28They're never in a hurry, and they take them slow.
09:31They don't like to travel away from home.
09:34They just want to eat and be left alone.
09:37But one day, Bilbo was asked to go
09:40On a big adventure to the caves below
09:43To help some dwarves get back their gold
09:46That was stolen by a dragon in the days of Bilbo.
09:49Oh, Bilbo, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins,
09:52Talk to me, sweet people.
09:55Bilbo, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins,
09:58The ravest little hobbit of the whole.
10:01Well, he fought with the goblins.
10:04He paddled a trole.
10:07He riddled with golem.
10:10A magic ring he stole.
10:13He was chased by wolves,
10:15Lost in the forest,
10:16Escaped in a barrel from the elf jigs.
10:19Oh, Bilbo, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins,
10:22The ravest little hobbit of the whole.
10:25Unfortunately, Leonard Nimoy left the music scene in 1970,
10:28Never to record again.
10:29A great loss to music lovers everywhere, of course.
10:31Undaunted by the success of her superior officers,
10:33There was another member of the Enterprise crew
10:35Who left us some stellar recordings.
10:37Played by former nightclub singer Nichelle Nichols,
10:40Lieutenant O'Hura was the sultry songstress of the Federation.
10:45Nichelle went on to record several albums,
10:47Including, barely credibly, a cover of the Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
10:50However, it's something much more exotic than that we're going to show you now.
10:52This is Nichelle's functastic version of Bobby Gentry's Ode to Billy Joe.
10:56Ooh, oh, I need baby!
10:58White girl!
10:59White baby!
11:01He said it's our girl!
11:02And she looked i'm blue!
11:03And he looked i'm blue.
11:04And it was a sign of her,
11:06I want to show them,
11:08And a đo exchange of ____net,
11:09than that we're going to show you now. This is Nichelle's functastic version of Bobby Gentry's
11:13Ode to Billy Joe.
11:39It has been said that in her heyday, Nichelle had more soul per square inch than Gladys Knight and all her pips, and that's a lot of soul.
11:59When Star Trek returned in 1987 with The Next Generation, Star Trek music lovers had hopes for a return to former glories.
12:07The only crew member to continue in the tradition of Star Trek music making has been the android Data, played by Brent Spiner.
12:16Spiner was coming from a different musical angle on his 1991 CD, Old Yellow Eyes Is Back, but he never quite recaptured the old Shatner magic.
12:25Whilst no one else from Star Trek boldly went where no other performer had gone before, several other artists did pay tribute to the Federation's finest and try and steal some of that space dust magic to get themselves a hit.
12:45Not a bad idea. Get Leonard Nimoy in your video and hope he does his thing.
13:05Leonard, however, was reluctant to reprise Bilbo Baggins and eventually did the decent thing.
13:10The firm had the right idea with this fondly remembered 1987 number one.
13:20...to kill, ma'am.
13:21It's worse than that. He's dead, Jim. Dead, Jim. Dead, Jim.
13:24It's worse than that. He's dead, Jim. Dead, Jim. Dead!
13:27Well, it's life, Jim, but not as we know it. Not as we know it. Not as we know it. It's life, Jim, but not as we know it. Not as we know it.
13:32There's sling-ons on the starboard bow. Starboard bow. Starboard bow. There's sling-ons on the starboard bow. Scrape them off, Jim.
13:39Star trekking across the universe.
13:42On the statue of Enterprise under Captain Kerr.
13:45Star trekking across the universe.
13:48Only going forward and things are getting worse.
13:51The true spirit of Star Trek sound did live on, though.
13:56Spears Energy, doubtless inspired by finding himself a copy of William Shatner's classic LP,
14:00went on to record the only Star Trek tribute worthy of the Enterprise's jukebox.
14:05I leave you with, where's Captain Kirk?
14:07Where's Captain Kirk?
14:25Where's Captain Kirk?
14:27Where's Captain Kirk?
14:30Where's Captain Kirk?
14:32When I work from a dangerous face,
14:36I look to the sword of a milly of faith.
14:39I want this fact spent a change in me.
14:41But I was a captain of a captain of a captain of a fleet.
14:44Yet it's so true.
14:45As we wait on that curtain.
14:47For a change in I have been.
14:49As Captain Kirk.
14:52As Captain Kirk.
14:54As Captain Kirk.
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