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Atari and Cryptic Studios have just announced a release date Trekkies worldwide have been waiting for - the offical debut of Star Trek Online. It will be released February 2, 2010 in North America and three days later on February 5, 2010 in Europe and Australia.

Star Trek Online will be available in two versions, the standard edition which costs $49.99 and a $79.99 collector’s edition. The collector’s edition comes with a special game box, an art book, a Starfleet communicator badge and buddy passes so your friends can play. If you preorder it at Amazon, you’ll get guaranteed access to the open beta and a Borg Bridge Officer character. If you place your preorder at GameStop, you’ll get a special Starfleet Constitution Class Starship with extra features.

Star Trek Online follows along the same storyline as the recent J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie and is set in 2409. Players get to explore space, starships and planets as a Starfleet officer from any established species from the series or their own unique species. If you’ve been eagerly following any Star Trek Online news, you probably already knew all this.

If you’re a Star Trek fan who really wants to get into this by knowing the stardate for when Star Trek Online debuts, then it gets complicated/ The whole system for determining stardates was pretty much different for every Star Trek show. Depending on what online converter/calculator/generator you use, you’ll get different stardates. For example, the Stardate Calculator at Star Trek USS Dragonstar says that it would be released around stardate 63587.4. The Sector 001 Stardate Converter says it would be around 63508.1. Really, it’s best not to overthink it.

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