A couple of months ago, Atari sold Cryptic Studios to Perfect World and one of the first major announcements to come out of the aquisition was the news that Star Trek Online would be going free-to-play by the end of 2011.

If you hadn’t previously heard about this, you can find out all the details on the STO F2P page at http://startrekonline.com/f2p and be sure to checkout the Star Trek Online Homepage for almost daily Free to Play news updates!