The project was formed in 1996 by Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie and writer-producer Nat Segaloff. Having just come off of the collaborative effort that was the LA Theatreworks re-creation of the Mercury Theatre's War of the Worlds (for which Nimoy and other Trek stars performed, de Lancie directed and Segaloff wrote a modern-day extention entitled When Welles Collide), the three men decided to form Alien Voices to re-create other great works of science fiction literature for audio. These have included adaptations of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The First Men in the Moon (the last of which featured William Shatner as the Moon Emperor); Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. They also re-created several of these p