'Star Trek Online' to explore new civilizations, life-forms

By Derrik J. Lang, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - "Star Trek Online" is finally going warp speed ahead. After years in development limbo, the "Trek"-themed massively multiplayer online game will engage, according to game developer Cryptic Studios Inc., which recently announced it had secured the rights to develop and publish "Star Trek Online" from CBS Consumer Products after now-defunct Perpetual Entertainment set the besieged project to kill. "We had a friendly relationship with them," Cryptic chief creative officer Jack Emmert told The Associated Press. "As it became apparent they weren't going to continue to function, they decided to sell off the licence. We swooped in and grabbed it. We took no assets. There was nothing to be had, to be honest. We're building everything from the ground up." Emmert said players will... [read full story]