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Startrek.com Shutting Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the could-have-offered-it-to-fandom dept.

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."

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  1. Outcry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kaaaaaaahn!!

  2. its so obvious.. by RuBLed · · Score: 3, Funny

    damn you temporal agents...

  3. Re:Not Quite by Martian_Kyo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Bad move... by Hanners1979 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have thought twice about having a 'Red Shirt Friday' in the office I guess...

  5. Re:great news? by bm_luethke · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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  6. Re:Give it to Wil Wheaton? by arth1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Watch what you're saying. The person in question may be reading this, armed with moderator points...

  7. Re:great news? by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  8. Mod Parent -1, Sad by Kawahee · · Score: 5, Funny
    Mod Parent -1, Sad please:

    Last fall/winter/ this spring i watched all 6 star trek series and 10 movies in chronological order by episode
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  9. Re:Mirror? by Kredal · · Score: 4, Funny

    if it is, the mirror will have a goatee and be evil!

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  10. I know what I blame. by dreemernj · · Score: 3, Funny

    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."

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  11. Rather, Heghlu'meh qaq jajvam. by C10H14N2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is a good day to die.

  12. Re:great news? by sou11ess · · Score: 5, Funny

    jamestkirk.com is my favorite stop for everything Star Trek, like a big picture of a TIE fighter.