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Startrek.com Shutting Down
Curlsman writes to let us know that the fan site startrek.com, operated for 13 years by CBS, is being shut down and its staff laid off. Is this site worth a write-in campaign? From the (perhaps final) post: "Goodbye from the STARTREK.COM Team. Sadly, we must report that CBS Interactive organization is being restructured, and the production team that brings you the STARTREK.COM site has been eliminated. Effective immediately. We don't know the ultimate fate of this site, which has served millions of Star Trek fans for the last thirteen years. If you have comments, please send them to editor @ startrek.com — we hope someone at CBS will read them."
Kaaaaaaahn!!
damn you temporal agents...
I find their use of the word 'eliminated' a bit overly dramatic. Dissolved maybe, but eliminated? It's not like they've all been taken to the alley behind the studio, shot in the head and then dumped in the river.
until now.
They should have thought twice about having a 'Red Shirt Friday' in the office I guess...
Maybe they could give it to the poor actor who played Wesley, and he could write himself some dialogue that doesn't make him like a Slashdot poster child?
Can't we use the Genesis device to loserform a new production team?
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
It's dead, Jim.
"But I suspect it will be sat on, no doubt something to do with afraid something not under their control may be done with it."
There, I fixed the line for you. That is normally the way these types of things work, I can;t see them giving this site up for any reason whatsoever.
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
Hopefully they will let the domain expire so it can be snatched up by one of the various high-quality search engine providers like www.starttrek.com, www.jamestkirk.com, www.ussenterprise.com, klingon.com, romulans.com, etc. These sites show their dedication to Star Trek by providing search engines targeted towards their primary audience... namely Star Trek fanatics.
It's a pretty long trip to blaming the gov't for this. Thank you for restoring my faith in crazy.
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I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
if it is, the mirror will have a goatee and be evil!
Whoever stated that signature sizes should be limited to one hundred and twenty characters can just go ahead and kiss my
Have you ever kissed a girl?
Somewhere, there is a 35 yr old obese man who still lives in his mother's basement pulling out a bag of dice, because if you were there, man, he totally would've dealt 1d20 damage to you for your comment.
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Voyager. I'm not sure how but I'm sure it's Voyager's fault the site is closing down.
Some CBS exec happened to catch a re-run of the Voyager episode with Tuvix and said "That's it. Kill the site."
1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
It is a good day to die.
jamestkirk.com is my favorite stop for everything Star Trek, like a big picture of a TIE fighter.
Man alive! Thank you so much for brining out this magnificent diversion to my day. You have boldly gone where my web surfing would not take me before... looking through those link farm sites and picking out the sweetest plum. On your recommendation I sampled a taste for myself and my life is richer, fulfilled for having followed your bold pioneering. This was a beautiful moment. All I can say is majQa'!
Sand's overrated... it's just tiny little rocks.