Dear Trekkies, as I haven't seen this come up before, please allow me to offer you this excerpt from a feature interview with As If, a British (and excellent) Christian rock band: (and my apologies to those of you who know the story)

"The new album, being recorded now, sees As If using other unusual themes.

"One song is about Aberfoyle in Scotland, where a minister is said to have disappeared with the fairies in the 1700s... in fact, the villagers did away with him because he had translated the Bible into Celtic!

"There is an unmarked grave, but they will never put his name on it, because they like to leave the legend intact. The old minister is supposed to appear in the church once a year, and if the villagers want him brought back to life, they have to throw a knife through his apparition.

"In the 1960s, a film-maker from the States heard the story and decided to make a film about it. In the end, he decided to turn it into a space adventure... but he kept the minister's name, which was Kirk. The story became Star Trek!"

(There is rather more to it than that - Kirk the minister was in fact the Walker Between Worlds, one of many Christian ministers of the time who was deeply investigating the paranormal, although he didn't intend to 'boldly go' into it quite as far as he did... and legend says he did re-appear in church, arriving for the christening of his nephew. The congregation was so staggered, they completely forgot to throw the knife at him!)" Cheers -Ian B