Gamestop has posted STO for preorder with a tenitive release date of 1/26/2010.

following their history, this i pretty accurate, usually off by about a month, so expect it around feburary timeframe, no later than march 2010.

the reason i say this is that they would not have posted a pre-order without some knowledge from cryptics maketing department giving them a tenitive date.

so expect beta in 6 months time folks.