Lots of news about Star Trek Online on the web today. Let's bring it all together into one convenient place for you guys :) Let's start first with the Developer Diary:

Video Games - E3 2009 - Video Game Trailers

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See some exclusive screenshots over at MMORPG.com.

Release Date news and beta news:

Executive producer Craig Zinkievich told Videogamer today that STO will be released between January and March of next year. "Without giving you the date, which I'm not allowed to give out or else the marketing people will come and smack me in the back of the head, I can tell you that the game will be out the first quarter of 2010."

"The closed beta is really just right around the corner," Zinkievich added. "I think that there's a press release that's going to go out in just a couple of days."

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Dev Chat:

Next Tuesday, October 20, at 11:30 a.m. Pacific time (we’re GMT -7 right now), we’ll be holding a developer’s chat in the official Star Trek Online IRC chat!

This week's topic is player progression. We've talked about this previously in an Ask Cryptic, but we'd like to use this chat for any follow-up questions you'd like to ask the devs in real time.

The chat is scheduled to last 30 minutes. If you can’t make it due to time constraints, we’ll be posting a transcript of the chat on the forums.

If you’d like to join us, point your IRC program of choice toward #STO on coldfront.net, or click right here for a Java client, then type "/join #STO" in the input area. And if you can’t make it, just reply with your question in this post’s comment thread. We’ll be selecting questions from the thread to put to the developers.

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