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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. Not Quite by datan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually it says that the production team has been eliminated (which kinda sucks just during this holiday seasons), and the ultimate fate of the site is still unresolved.

    1. Re:Not Quite by Martian_Kyo · · Score: 3, Informative
      Ok i'd like to state a few things other already have.
      • In the announcement/article it hasn't been said that site is being shut down
      • In the announcement/article it hasn't been said that these people are fired, only team has been 'eliminated' they might have been moved to different projects.
      so my biggest (and really the only) grudge here, is that this is not really not newsworthy, the title should have been 'startrek.com team dissolved, future of website in question'

      Onto my next observation you said

      The "pursuit of happiness" is an on-going experience, not a goal. and i agree wholeheartedly, one could use the modified zen statement 'Meditation is enlightenment', and say that 'pursuit of happiness' is futile, because 'the pursuit is happiness'. but then you say

      If you haven't found what makes you happy yet, heed the example of this sort of person - don't put him down. which kind of makes it sound like it is a goal. Working for 13 years on one website, is hardly a pursuit. It seems to me that if anyone (there is high possibility no one is really wrong here) mistook happiness for 'goal' instead of 'on-going experience', it's the startrek.com team.
  2. Re:great news? by Hurricane+Floyd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Probably end up with a cybersquatting fake search page on it like all the other premium domains that are abandoned. Or autoforward to the main CBS site.

  3. good riddance by sankekur · · Score: 4, Informative

    The website is a mess anyways, Memory Alpha is much better, its the star trek wiki, http://memory-alpha.org/