As many of your don't care to know, a company named Perpetual
Entertainment is building an online game where thousands of users can
play with each other in a Star Trek based universe.

What is Star Trek

Star Trek collectively refers to a science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series, 726 episodes and ten motion pictures in addition to hundreds of novels, video games, fan stories and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the mid-1960s.

It depicts an optimistic, almost utopian future in which humanity has largely overcome such traditional frailities and vices as sickness, racism, poverty, environmental destructiveness, intolerance, religion and warfare on Earth, and has united with other intelligent species in the galaxy; the central characters explore the galaxy, discovering new worlds and encountering new civilizations, while helping to promote peace and understanding.

You join Star Fleet Academy and slowly move up as you go on missions on
city sized star ships and explore distance planets. From what I am
reading the company is putting a lot of effort into this game by hiring
many of the set designers and writers of the last few hit Star Trek
shows.

Here is the latest article just posted yesterday thanks to Google
Alerts.

http://trekweb.com/articles/2006/02/06/43e7efd8959a5.shtml

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