In 1987, the group recorded another novelty song, this time based on catchphrases from the ' TV series set to a catchy, childlike tune with an increasingly frantic arrangement. Group member Tony Thorpe, formerly of the Rubettes, adopted the stage name Ron Spock in homage to Star Trek character Spock. It was rejected by all the record labels which O'Connor approached with it. Believing it to be worth releasing, O'Connor pressed an initial 500 copies on his own label, Bark Music. The record, "Star Trekkin', spent two weeks at number one in the UK and a total of nine weeks in the UK top 40, and reached No. 3 in Australia, with comparable success in Japan and Europe and worldwide sales of over a million copies.