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."

Outcry

[Anonymous Coward]

Kaaaaaaahn!!

its so obvious..

[RuBLed]

damn you temporal agents...

Re:Not Quite

[Martian_Kyo]

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.

I never took the Kobayashi Maru test

[Anonymous Coward]

until now.

Bad move...

[Hanners1979]

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

Give it to Wil Wheaton?

[Antique Geekmeister]

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?

Re:great news?

[The Clockwork Troll]

Can't we use the Genesis device to loserform a new production team?

404

[Tumbleweed]

It's dead, Jim.

Re:Outcry

[Hal_Porter]

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

The fact that comes from a rival franchise just makes it funnier.

Re:great news?

[bm_luethke]

"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.

Re:Give it to Wil Wheaton?

[arth1]

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

Re:great news?

[Professor_UNIX]

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.

Re:too bad ..

[heinousjay]

It's a pretty long trip to blaming the gov't for this. Thank you for restoring my faith in crazy.

Mod Parent -1, Sad

[Kawahee]

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

Your mother called, get out of her basement.

Re:Mirror?

[Kredal]

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

Re:I was thinking that...

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you ever kissed a girl?

Re:Not even worthy of thinking about letter writin

[loafula]

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.

I know what I blame.

[dreemernj]

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 [wikipedia.org] and said "That's it. Kill the site."

Rather, Heghlu'meh qaq jajvam.

[C10H14N2]

It is a good day to die.

Re:great news?

[sou11ess]

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

Re:great news?

[wickedskaman]

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'!