After Leonard Nimoy spanned the galaxy on the USS Enterprise as Mr. Spock on "Star Trek," he drove the Bangles down to Liverpool in the 1984 video for the band's catchy "Going Down to Liverpool." ...

Around 1966, Tamar Simon Hoffs, the mother of Bangle Susannah Hoffs, was encouraged by Leonard Nimoy to join the crew of his movie project Deathwatch, which was filming around the debut of Star Trek.

Its video, which featured Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek (who was also a friend of Hoff’s and her family) as The Bangles’ chauffeur, received airplay on MTV. The Bangles also performed the song on ...