Whales Alive is a 1987 album of improvisational duets and sometimes trios betweenPaul Winter,Paul Halley, and recordings ofhumpback whales. Winter and Halley also collaborate withLeonard Nimoy, who reads poems and prose from various writers, includingD. H. Lawrence andRoger Payne. The audio recordings made of the whales for this recording were used in theStar Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Nov. 1986) movie (for which Nimoy directed and reprised his character Spock), featuring the whales nicknamed "George and Gracie".