Yea, I don’t think there’s anyone here who can match Paul Reiche in that regard. I think it would be a foregone conclusion that Stardock would need to reach out to external talent. In an ideal world, I’d love to see Paul Reiche as involved as possible but I don’t know how likely that’ll be given how successful Toys for Bob has has become in the last few years. They’re probably very busy.
One of the things that Toys for Bob did back in the day that I thought was really cool was run contests for some of the content (such as the music). There is a rather considerable Star Control community still that I think would want to be involved during the development of a new game.