I'm not overly enthusiastic about the project, maybe because it seems to me that about every SF series happens in a dark and dangerous universe, and that some series of Star Trek were about the only ones with a rather optimistic view of the future (no matter how unrealistic one could find it).
Then again, I agree it could make for a nice RPG setting. I particularly like the idea of warp travel being rendered inoperative in some areas of space. Plenty of potential in that one.
"The main difference between Trekkies and Manchester United fans is that Trekkies never trashed a train carriage. So why are the Trekkies the social outcasts?"
Terry Pratchett