Star Trek Online has had a flurry of activity surrounding it lately. It's all due to the upcoming beta, plus the convention circuit Cryptic has been touring as of late.

The Penny Arcade Expo wrapped up earlier this week in Seatle and Cryptic Studios had a big presence at the show this year featuring our favorite upcoming MMO Star Trek Online.

If you missed it (like we did, Duh!) then you're as excited as we are about all the online coverage. Here a few samples of some of the things we missed while leading a hum-drum existence. We like to call this the PAX 2009 Star Trek Online stuff extravaganza! Dun-da-da-daaaaaah!!

Massively.com's PAX 2009 ST:O hands on:

A brand new installment of the 'Path to 2409' was just released on StarTrekOnline.com.  This time, we read an excerpt from a classified report from Lieutenant Mark Fischer, Federation Operative placed with the troops of the exiled Romulan Commander Sela.  

Hey internet, Super Spock is back! That's right, our favorite blogger Jerad Formby has returned from the abyss known as moving to delight us with another installment of his ongoing masterpiece 'Hey, Star Trek!'.

Searching the tubes (as I like to call it) today I ran across a very special video on Youtube. Actually two videos of the much talked about Leonard Nimoy panel at Dragon-Con 2009. The video is segmented into parts 1 & 2 7 parts, and starts after The Shat crashed the panel. Lots of fun and a very special treat for those of us who missed the con.

Leonard Nimoy Panel Part 1 - Seen any good movies lately?

Here's this week's installment of The Trivia Tribble Presents. As always a huge thanks to the Trivia Tribble David Kleparek for providing the awesome content.

Ricky Gervais, star of Extras and (original English version) The Office, apparently turned down a role offered to him by J.J. Abrams in 'Star Trek'.  Scotty Maybe?

The actor and comedian told BBC's 'Newsbeat' that JJ Abrams offered him a number of roles, which he couldn't take on because of other commitments.

Gervais said: "He's offered me a couple of parts I couldn't do, one in 'Mission: Impossible' and one in 'Star Trek' itself but I couldn't do them because I was busy."

Trekcast 42, the answer to the universe, life, and everything.  In this episode the Trekcasters review their very first TOS episode and are joined by a special Andorian friend.

Did you miss Dragon-Con, just like us? Well it's time for another installment of "...for losers like me" Dragon-Con edition. Thanks to reader Jay S. for taking the time to grab a few photos for us and keeping us up to date on the latest Dragon-Con news.

Jay stopped by the Leonard Nimoy panel with suprise guest The Shat. I'll let Jay explain it in his own words....