Star Trek Online Coming
Perpetual Entertainment announced that it has acquired the rights to a massively multiplayer online game based on the Star Trek universe, the GameSpot Web site reported. Under the agreement, the two-year-old, San Francisco-based company will develop and publish the online game for release in 2007, with public beta testing to begin in 2006, the site reported.
The game will be set during the 24th-century timeline of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, though other timelines could be added later through expansion packs. Players will be able to create characters of familiar races and go on solo and multiplayer missions involving characters, locales and situations from the Star Trek movies and television series, the company said.
Though Perpetual has released few specific details about the game, the company has posted a list of frequently asked questions and answers on the official Star Trek Web site.
