Alien Voices was a project set up by John de Lancie and Leonard Nimoy which specialized in audiobooks of science fiction novels in the style of radio plays.
[1] The productions were distributed by Simon & Schuster Audio, but the project was shut down following pressure from the distributor for greater sales and the dissatisfaction of de Lancie and Nimoy at this direction.
John de Lancie approached fellow Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy with a proposal to record radio plays productions of classic science fiction novels.
[9] The Alien Voices project ran for four years until there was increased pressure from Simon & Schuster to sell more units.
[4] Nimoy said in an interview in 2003 that he and de Lancie had "done what we've set out to do" and that he did not expect there to be any further installments of the Spock vs. Q productions,[1] saying that they "did that quite successfully, [and] had a wonderful time doing it".