Guys,
I feel honour bound to spring to the Defence of Mongoose, I know they have had some problems with quality control over the years (which has greatly improved), but so have had Decipher, but at least they care about their customers and they produce their products on time or least give good reasons why they maybe late.
And, to be honest, I have considered going to work for them on a couple of occassions when they have put up Job vaccancies on their forums (and how many RPG Companies do that), but the thought of travelling an hour or more from Salisbury (where I live) up to Swindon along some of worst and least straight roads in Wiltshire has always put me off.
But, are we ever going to see Paramount put the RPG license out to tender again? My guess is no, it is not going to happen, the RPG Community is not large enough to be profitable. And also, we don't know if the new Star Trek film is going to be a success or not, so almost certainly the RPG is not going to be included in the merchandising plan.
So, personnally I feel that we are not going to see another version of the Star Trek RPG published by any game company.
But, if I am wrong and it is published again, let it be published by some company like Mongoose, who are gamers and care about other gamers.
"Those Klingons are up to something, I can feel it in my bones"
Cmmdr JT Wayland
Strategic Operations Officer, Starbase 415, Dragomer Sector, Klingon Border, 2372