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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."

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  1. You blew it up! by Overkill+Nbuta · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! This is that TV show isnt it?

  2. Re:MA? by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow...actually forgot what website I was reading...it's really time for bed :)

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  3. too bad .. by hebertrich · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    that's what you get when you deal with corporate America.
    the hell with the fans .. they can suck a lemon ..
    the hell with employees .. they can also suck a lemon ..
    all they care about is their bottom line .

    America : A government of the people , by the corporations
                        for the corporations ! ..

    1. Re:too bad .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No way. George Bush and the evil overlord Cheney are directly responsible for shutting down startrek.com. If you don't think so, you're obviously an evil neoconjewwarmonger.

  4. Re:Hot chick by Pop69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    She's nice, don't like the look of your one much though.

  5. Re:Not Quite by hey! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can earn all the money in the world with your sort of attitude, but you'll still have approximately the same number of days on this earth as I do.


    Which is why I favor single payer health care. Don't think of it as socialized medicine going from the wealthy to the indigent so much as socialized karma going the other way.
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  6. Re:And shut down wikipedia too by snap2grid · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Then all you fucking nerds can lose weight and get laid, get a job and a house instead of living in your Mom's basement, aka "Get a life".

    Said someone sitting at a computer and posting on the internet.

  7. Re:Not Quite by Martian_Kyo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oops double negation
    not really not newsworthy....should've been 'not really newsworthy'

  8. Re:I felt a great disturbance in the Force... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nimoy: I'd say this vessel could do at least Warp Five.
    Quimby: And let me say, "May the Force Be With You!"
    Nimoy: Do you even know who I am?
    Quimby: I think I do. Weren't you one of the Little Rascals?

  9. Mod parent up by wanderingknight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This has to be the most insightful comment I've read on Slashdot. It's a pity to see the consequences of Marx's analysis of the capitalist society being carried away so naturally these days. The alienation of the workers from their work is extremely evident not only in the structure of today's society, but also in the minds of most of those partaking in the progress of society (or are they perhaps a consequence of this very society? It's hard to tell).

    I really wish the best to these guys, they really seemed like they enjoyed their work. A rare treat these days.

    1. Re:Mod parent up by wanderingknight · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Oh, pray tell me, how the hell was that offtopic? I understand your disagreement with me, moderator, but HOW the hell was that offtopic?

  10. Re:Hot chick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice, sure... but hot? Look at her arms -- it's a dead giveaway that she's packing 45 pounds of flab.

  11. Re:Give it to Wil Wheaton? by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great Ceasar's ghost, he is a Slashdot poster child!

  12. and in other news by loafula · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who the hell cares? I guess this falls into the "News for nerds" category. This is definitely not "Stuff that matters."

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