Leonard Nimoy… folk troubadour?

Star Trek was a revelation to me when I first watched it as a kid. I was too young to have seen the culture around the show during its initial run in the 1960s, though, which probably explains how I missed the five records put out by Leonard "Spock" Nimoy between 1967 and 1970.

Cast members from every iteration of the show have exhibited an odd penchant for recording musical albums-everyone from Brent "Data" Spiner to Nichelle "Uhura" Nichols has cut a record. And William "Kirk" Shatner is of course legendary for his bizarro musical performances (if you haven't heard his cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", set three minutes aside to give it a listen). In 1991, Entertainment Weekly noted that "the show has inspired more misguided crooning careers than any other TV series."

But Nimoy's efforts were a bit different. Though he did plenty of covers, including Johnny Cash's iconic "I Walk the Line," Nimoy wrote his own songs, too, like the creditable folk effort "Maiden Wine" from 1969's The Touch of Leonard Nimoy.

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