As a long term investment? No.

As a game you can pick up and play one month? Sure. You can pick it up for $10-$20 and play for the free month. In that amount of time, you'll have no problems hitting max level and finishing all the content. Then you can cancel your account and perhaps try it again for a month 6-12 months down the line.

I thought that was only available when pre-ordering.

Later,
LAR 

It's fun for a while but it's not what I'd call a "Real MMO". There's Way Too Much "Instancing". Even on the large Starbases you can only have 25-50 players at a time.

The ship battles are the best part but even that gets old pretty quick. I was so stoked for STO, but Craptic/Cryptic ruined it. I would say hold off until the game is ridiculously cheap. I still get the urge to play every now and then. Luckily a friend of mine bought a lifetime sub and gave me the account info so when I get that "itch to play" I can still fire up the game and play for a day or two before I get bored again.

Seems like they brought it back. It's a good deal for Cryptic, given how sparse and shallow the game is. People pay for a "lifetime" membership, and get bored in 2 months. That's a lot more profit then a short term paid subscription.

You will most likely enjoy the game immensely for the first month (maybe two), then the real flaws will show.  There is very little content for anyone who reaches max level and the crafting is mostly non existent.

There are some interesting quest arcs that do a good job of tieing up lose ends in the Star Trek lore.  For example one arc explains the change in klingons from the original series to the movie and beyond klingons.  However they really dropped the ball with end game content.  You can pvp, do a daily repeatable explore mission, or participate in one of the 4 special task force 5 man instances.  It is really sad considering they could have really taken this and made it a wonderful game.

The space combat is excellent, but the lack of anything to do once you max your character was a game breaker for me.

I would have to disagree with the above responses. I got tired of the game after a few days, tried to stick with it but gave up after barely a week. It's the worst game I've ever bought. Space combat consists of slamming the space bar over and over while slowly spinning your ship in circles. Ground combat is a joke and feels like an after thought. Most of the content is randomly generated by a crappy system that gives you the same objectives over and over again in small poorly generated systems or planet areas. There is no community, people are spread out over 10-50 instances of the same tiny zone that only holds a dozen or less people. Oh, and a lot of the content people have been asking for is being sold to players on a cash shop. Half the patch notes are usually additions to the cash shop. I just wouldn't recommend the game to anyone. If you absolutely must play I'd suggest waiting for a free trial, assuming the game lasts much longer as I heard it's already dying.

Half the patch notes are usually additions to the cash shop.

It honestly blows my mind why people even bother playing a game with a triple cost.  You have an upfront cost, monthly fee, AND microtransactions.  And from I've heard of Cryptic, they don't put in trivial junk to their cash shop like shiny mounts, they make you pay cash for respecs (and constantly mess with the balance via patches so respeccing is unavoidable).  I see Bill Roper still has no concept of customer satisfaction, despite everything that he's touched since leaving Blizzard turning to shit due to his greed.

Considering the insane potential of a Star Trek MMO and what Cryptic did with it, I'm surprised the shareholders haven't demanded the execution of the entire senior management team.  What massive waste, both in gaming potential and money making potential.

Except that it's a shadow of what it could have been, and I'm not talking about the gameplay.  This thing should have been a perpetual motion machine of money for years and years like WoW, but I haven't heard a single person who bought it say they'd go back to it.  The way thing are going, it will likely be dead in a year unless it gets console ports.

Do you think there is any chance of them reworking it, or possibly seeing it off for another company to rework?  Or do you think its just dead?

Ya I wasted money on this game and beta tested it... I only played it for less than a month after release. Really disappointed with it...

I mean I still have Eve Online which is really fun and this year is going to be some big changes in it!

The only new mmo I am interested in is The Old Republic and what ever CCP's other mmo they are baking! And I'm not talking about Dust 514 (which I will probably get)...

Anything's possible, but I wouldn't bet on it. It would take a lot of money to do a rework, and the game's reputation is already cemented. It's really hard to recover from early failure of this scale in a MMO.

By 'seeing' back there i meant 'selling'

I know about all the legal junk PE went through.  Ive been following this game from the begining.  So sad no one could do it justice.  Though to be honest i wasnt too thrilled with the way PE went about their build.  From what I read it was bassed around Ship crews.  You joined a ship as a crew member and had responsibilities.  Not stupid stuff, but like as an ensign bridge officer.  You went on missions with your crew and had to work together.  It sounded more first person, "ground based" then space based.  You could explore the galaxy on your own but it intailed getting a ride on different star ships.  Or possibly eventually getting your own.  I could be wrong; it was a long time ago and I have slept since then.  I was glad to hear that Cryptic had baught the game.  I wasnt too eager to be ordered around by someone who had been in the game longer, and I like the idea of every person being a captain of their own ship.  But that has changed the more I've read... 

I have never played an MMO and honestly have never really had the urge to, though EVE and more recently Jumpgate have intrigued me.  This game however I have been eagerly anticipating for a while.  I still think im going to get it, especially if it has a free month subscription... We will see...

What have you heard about Jumpgate?  I know its still in Beta, have any of you played it?