While acting as Captain Kirk in Star Trek William Shatner got the idea that he wanted to make an album with him reading lyrics or classical narratives over various types of musical scores as an acting performance from the perspective of an LSD user. Shatner realized that idea in the form of an album, The Transformed Man, which remains controversial to this day and has somehow become a bit of a cult phenomenon mainly because of a question hanging over it as to why Shatner would want to do something like this at all.