The New Traveller--A Raw Deal?

Well, I’ve heard rumors regarding the 5^th Edition of Traveller, and I must say I am pretty annoyed. It’s going to have dice? Game Masters? Combat Rules? Possibly even a fleshed-out setting? Evidently, they want us to think this is still 1977! I think I’m going to start a thread at on one of the Traveller boards expressing my outrage, not that I think any of the senior citizen fatbeard grognards will listen to a voice of the future. All I’m saying is, if a game is capable of exploring more than one theme at a time, I call that a scatter-brained lack of focus. No sir, give me Professor Curtis’ Alienthing RPG any day, which is a powerful thematic study of the decision astronauts must make—who will be the first one on the moon (and if you aren’t avant-garde enough or savvy in the ways of Hungarian filmmaking to know why its called Alienthing despite having no aliens, I pity you, in a totally non-judgemental way).