Face facts and cherish them, if EA allowed you full access to all those goods, it would be they considered it dead and wortheless, the unwillingless to realise the creative content, etc, is an evidence that they want to re-use it someday.
There is interest in a next generation wingcommander game, but it would be damn hard to make the choices to keep the storyline intact and keeping several generations of fans interested, dump the story or remake it? Please keep in mind that you will need financial input a lot bigger then anything this community has to pay tribute to the original work, and the market is a lot different now then it was in the coin-up days.
I just hope Chris roberts has taken an attempt to play through standoff, and the Standoff team did work magic, but would it enable Chris to revisit his old work?, time will tell.