Bethesda Executive Producer Todd Howard spoke with Kotaku Talk Radio yesterday. He mentioned that, before making Fallout 3, the team actually pitched a Star Trek RPG set in the Captain Kirk era. Howard said that, at one point, Bethesda had the rights to Star Trek games. After Activision decided not to renew its license, Bethesda picked up some of the projects.
Howard noted that nothing was actually developed internally. "There was a pitch to do a big Star Trek RPG, [but] we were doing other things. We made Fallout. We can't do everything," he said. Howard also said that if the project had been done, Shatner would have been voicing Kirk.
"I agree, I want the big Star Trek RPG that you go out and explore the universe," Howard commented in reference to Atari's Star Trek Online.
