A new FAQ on the Star Trek Online Official Website offers info on Cryptic's upcoming MMORPG, covering topics like PvP, economics, your ability to take another role in addition to Captain (dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, I can't run a starship!), playing with friends, and a bit that reveals the game may support cross-platform play for PC and console players:

Will console and PC players be on the same servers?
We would like that to be the case. There is nothing technologically keeping us from making it so.