Last month, while declining to give an exact date in fears of getting smacked in the back of the head by the marketing people, executive producer Craig Zinkievich said Star Trek Online would leave space dock in “early 2010,” a window that can now be narrowed down to some exact release dates — February 2 in North America and February 5 in Europe. Just the right time to start catching up on some Star Trek lore then; the three-minute history lesson above catches us up to the time where the game begins, the year 2409.