It has at least three planets and TWO planetoid belts and at 10.5
light years is the closest star we know with a planetary system. It is
relatively young (850 million years old estimated), but unlike Alpha
Centauri, we do know it has worlds to visit.

In the Star Trek universe, it would take a starship less than one full
Earth day to reach Alpha Centauri, but about two centuries to reach
the galactic center at Warp 8. Still, considering the core of the Milky
Way is 26,000 light years from Earth, two centuries is pretty good.

Please note that warp drive is not entirely a Star Trek technobabbling:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Apparently using some dark energy could help us go FTL:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2141/dark-energy-spacecraft-could-fly-faster-light

There are a few tiny technical issues, like trying to obtain actual dark
energy to run your star drive, plus, to quote from the above article:

"Even if it were possible, faster-than-light travel would still take an enormous amount of energy. It would consume the entire mass of Jupiter to move a spaceship 10 m at warp speed, the researchers said."

Well, there are all those superJovian exoplanets we've been finding....