I know I normally don't post here, often, but I've just read all of the Path to 2409 entries up to this point, and I have to say I am extraordinarily impressed. I've never heard of any MMORPG dev crew that actually cared about the history of the game. Only two questions...

1) Is the history that's being written prior to game release going to have an effect on the overall game, such as continuations to various news events from the Path...?

2) Is Cryptic using anything from the previous Star Trek dice and paper role-playing games, whether by FASA, Decipher, Last Unicorn, etc.?