The Scientist Who Keeps Science Fiction Real
The Scientist Who Keeps Science Fiction Real

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Scientist Who Keeps 'Star Trek' and 'The Expanse' Real

As an executive producer on SyFy’s The Expanse, Naren Shankar helps to steer the spaceship Rocinante through the asteroid belt and beyond, a sci-fi journey that began, for him, in real laboratories. He’s been writing TV for nearly three decades — he began on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1992 — but before that, he was studying at Cornell University in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics.
Older article but still interesting..