Will We Ever Find E.T.? NASA Talks First Contact 'Star Trek'-Style

A panel called "First Contact: Looking for Life in the Universe" at "Star Trek": Mission New York Sept. 4 gave the audience a look at the current state of humanity's search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The "Star Trek" mythos came up surprisingly few times for a panel calling itself a "Trek Talk," but the subject matter was still appropriate, given the abundance of alien life on "Star Trek," both familiar and bizarre. Dan Werthimer, the SETI chief scientist at the Universit