# Ancient Web: No Kill I Played Star Trek Punk in Sacramento The surviving No Kill I band website documents Sacramento's 1990s Star Trek-themed punk act with show stories, costume lineups, free recordings, and a 2007 update. 2026-10-08 :: Switchboard Tech Services ![Ancient Web: No Kill I Played Star Trek Punk in Sacramento](https://switchboardtechservices.com/static/images/defaults/articles.webp) Part of the [Ancient Web Collection](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/). No Kill I did not merely write songs about *Star Trek*. The Sacramento punk band's members performed as Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Yeoman Rand, a red-shirted expendable crewman, and a creature called Mugatu. Their website suggests that remaining in costume was sometimes the least of their problems. [Visit No Kill I's surviving band homepage](https://www.nokilli.com/). The band dates itself to around 1993, though its own [history page](https://www.nokilli.com/nokilli/history.html) admits uncertainty about the year. It remembers early Cattle Club appearances, punk-house concerts, broken instruments, encounters with venue staff, and a 1998 reunion at Sacramento's Old Ironsides. The stories are deliberately unruly, full of exaggeration, self-mockery, and the rough language of the local punk circuit. By 2003 the band had enough of a reputation to appear in the documentary *Trekkies 2*, according to its homepage. The site says a tenth-anniversary show on July 26 that year was filmed for the movie. Its archived news also links reviews of Sacramento and Hollywood premieres in 2004. ## The recording studio was sometimes a third-generation tape The [recording log](https://www.nokilli.com/nokilli/records.htm) lists a self-titled cassette tentatively dated 1995, appearances on compilation releases in 1996 and 1997, and a session whose master tape was reportedly lost before a copy surfaced again. It advertises MP3s copied from an old tape and cheerfully apologizes for their poor fidelity. The [songs page](https://www.nokilli.com/nokilli/songs_mp3.htm) and navigation also promise lyrics, photographs, concert reports, reviews, and a list of other Star Trek bands. On the homepage, the musicians offer their recordings for noncommercial sharing under a Creative Commons license. That willingness to circulate the songs sits beside the personal stories in a familiar early-Web arrangement: an independent band maintains the archive itself. One dated detail matters. The homepage says it was **updated April 17, 2007**, and its visitor counter was added December 13, 2000. Neither is evidence that the band still performs today. The site's line about not seeking shows anymore should be read as a statement from that older version of the website. The charm is not that these are polished memoirs. It is that a group of musicians kept their little universe of fake starship personnel, local clubs, broken gear, and recordings connected through ordinary hyperlinks. [Read the band's self-described history and recording log](https://www.nokilli.com/nokilli/history.html). Part of the [Ancient Web Collection](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/). - Categories: [Ancient Web](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/categories/ancient-web/) - Tags: [#ancientweb](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/ancientweb/), [#music-history](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/music-history/), [#punk-rock](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/punk-rock/), [#star-trek](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/star-trek/) [Articles RSS](https://switchboardtechservices.com/feeds/articles.xml "Subscribe using an RSS reader") --- Canonical URL: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-no-kill-i-played-star-trek-punk-in-sacramento/ Language: en-us Content type: article Author: Switchboard Tech Services Published: 2026-10-08T19:32:02+00:00 Modified: 2026-10-18T21:04:05.079170+00:00