Do you want an Enterprise sourcebook?

Regardless of my hateful opinion of this "show". I have to say no, not at this time.

Why?
Simple this series is not done yet and the Storylines and game information about this Era are incomplete until the series is over.
Any information that Decipher will use will be obsolete after the next season of Enterprise and changed. Already the first part of the series has changed radically every season of this show expicially this last one with the Xindi attack on Earth. Note even the Timeline in the Star Trek Player's Guide has no mention of the current events of the series.
Only after the show's run I believe they should. That way we have all the information we need if we want to run this series. This is my pet peeve with any game books to a TV series or movie that is not complete. Look at D20 Star Wars: A new main source book everytime a movie comes out. Or the ICON/LUG Deep Space Nine book that does not cover the last season of the show.
I am not against supplements mentioning current information and stats like those for the Xindi and ships of the Era just not a complete book until the series is over.

Maybe there should never have been any Trek RPG until Trek as a whole is dead? :D

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Originally posted by Cochrane
Maybe there should never have been any Trek RPG until Trek as a whole is dead? :D

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Considering this Era of Trek is not complete I do not think it should be out in a sourcebook yet. The Original Series, The TOS Movie Era, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager Eras are all completed and have had their runs. Information on these Era Books will be stagnent and not be rewritten before the first book is completed. Era books in flux are not good to come out. I know the Enterprise fans want this book out but let's get it done logically. Make Enterprise Sourcebook after it's TV run. It just makes sense.

As for Trek's death, my opinion B&B is doing a great job trying to kill it.

I would like to at least see a book with a section including the weapons, tech, and aliens from this era. Its possible to include this information without going into great detail about whats currenlty going on and making suppositions that would be later ruined by future seasons. Starships did this by including the 22nd-23rd Century Tech Charts for starship construction. Now just do this with the other books, and I'm a happy man. :)

Personally, I don't get all the Hate for Enterprise. I despised Voyager with an all-consuming passion, so I'm not just a reflexive Trek-Lover. (Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy several EPISODES of Voyager, but as a whole, the show was one gigantic mistake). I think Deep Space Nine still holds the title of Best Trek Series Ever. Enterprise has been entertaining. While its not DS9 level, Its certainly better than Voyager.

It may just be that I had serious problems with accepted Star Trek Canon that I learned to ignore because Thats The Way It Is. Enterprise has already overturned two of my biggest pet peeves, and I'm finding myself really getting into the series now.

This isn't going to persuade anyone to change their views. No one is going to change mine. Just my own two cents. I like what I like. You hate what you hate. :)

Essex, you hit the nail right on the head (well, except about DS9 being the best Trek series :p ). I want a sourcebook which gives me everything I need to play in the 22nd century. I don't want or need a sourcebook with a summary of all the Enterprise episodes, after all, I've already seen them!

We don't need the era to be complete to get a sourcebook. The sourcebook doesn't need to cover things which haven't happened yet on the show. It just needs to tell us about the ships, equipment, pre-existing politics, and so on, which has already been established on the show. So long as Enterprise remains internally consistent (as in, consistent with itself - I don't want to get into an argument about whether or not it destroys established the Trek history of other series), there is no reason why a sourcebook which does these things should be contradicted.

We can likely make all this up for ourselves, but the same could be said of 90% of sourcebooks for any RPG. I'd still like to see a sourcebook which gives me the material I need as a GM to run a campaign in the 22nd century rather than a sourcebook which gives me episode synopses and speculates about what is going to happen. I cannot see how the type of sourcebook I want would have to wait until after the show is completed.

I'm all for stats and such. I really don't buy a sourcebook to learn the history or get an episode to episode synopsis. I usually create my own "canon" which is the beauty of RPGs. Stats on ships, weapons, new professional packages, new skills and traits, and equipment is all i need.