"I just love scanning for lifeforms. Lifeforms... you tiny little lifeforms... you precious little lifeforms... where are you?"

- Data (Star Trek Generations)

"Our mission as Starfleet officers is to seek out new lifeforms so we can learn about one another."

- Miles O'Brien (DS9: "Captive Pursuit")

A lifeform is simply any living entity or organism. The study of lifeforms is known as biology, and, when dealing with alien lifeforms, can be further sub-categorized into xenobiology and xenology.

Starship sensors and tricorders are primary instruments used in detecting or locating lifeforms. This can be determined by identifying or localizing blood type, heart rate or metabolic setup.

Contents 1 Starfleet lifeform classes and types 2 Kingdoms 2.1 Other types of life 3 See also

Starfleet lifeform classes and types Edit

• R3-type lifeforms (Sheliak)
• Class-5 lifeforms (Vhnori)

• Order 480-G anthropoids (Taurus II natives)

Kingdoms Edit

• Monera
• Protista
• Fungi
• Plantae
• Animalia

Other types of life Edit

• Artificial
• Biomimetic lifeform
• Cybernetic
• Silicon-based
• Solanogen-based
• Spaceborne
• Viral
• Xenon-based
• Sporocystian

See also Edit

• Anatomy
• Non-sentient lifeforms
• Species and cultures