Thinking About Life (or Lyfe) Through The Prism of “Star Trek”

This column was written for Many Worlds by Michael L. Wong and Stuart Bartlett.  Wong is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington's Astronomy and Astrobiology program and is a member of  NASA's Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) initiative as part of the university's Virtual Planetary Laboratory team.  Bartlett is a postdoctoral …