Star Trek Online has been in closed beta for quite awhile. We even gave away a key online through Twitter. But now the rest of you can try it out as Open Beta has started.

Here is the information, particularly if you did play before in closed beta:
“Anyone who played in Closed Beta will have their account keys switched over to Open Beta keys and will have access to Holodeck when we open up the server to begin testing.

We have patched Holodeck back to ST.0.20100108a.0 for the time being to give you time to patch your client to the Open Beta build. If you played at all or patch up over the weekend to 8a.1 – then you will have a significant patch to get back to 8a.0. There is no way around this other than patching or doing a full client install.

You can also go the complete safe route and uninstall the game, then do a full client install of 8a.0 by using the new Downloader (found on the Beta – Download page)

There will be another small patch prior to the start of Open Beta which will bring your client up to 8b.x – which will be our final build for the start of Open Beta. The patch from 8a.0 to 8b.x is approx 50mb. Eta for 8b.x to be available for patching is later today”

You can grab the download from here (posted on Twitter) or on the official site here. The open beta runs from January 12 through January 26, 2010. Live long and prosper.