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Post by Captain Hawke on Dec 18, 2007 14:19:54 GMT -6
Goodbye from the STARTREK.COM Team 12.14.2007 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. Thank you for your loyal fandom over the years. It has been a pleasure to serve you. e-mail to editor@startrek.com www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/2316633.html
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Post by firestar on Dec 18, 2007 20:09:24 GMT -6
Someone on one of the Star Trek Boards said it was still up. I wonder about that?
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Post by Captain Hawke on Dec 18, 2007 22:46:27 GMT -6
I went there today and it still is up. Maybe it'll be taken down the first of the year?
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Post by Skyler on Dec 19, 2007 7:25:51 GMT -6
Two Strips of Latinum: CBS Interactive “absolutely commited” to STARTREK.COM By: Dennis Rayburn
Date: 12/17/2007
CBS Interactive, in answer to a storm of emails and phone calls from fans of Star Trek, issued a statement today on STARTREK.COM, pledging its continuing support to the extremely popular website. This statement came in answer to a flood of calls and emails to the company on the heels of laying off the entire startrek.com staff on Friday, Dec. 14th.
The incident started when announcement from the staff of STARTREK.COM that they had been laid off by CBS appeared on the site on Friday. Their statement went on to say, “We don't know the ultimate fate of this site, which has served millions of Star Trek fans for the last thirteen years.” The reaction to this news and lack of information on the future of the site had a very pronounced effect of Trekkies all over, ranging from sad to extreme fury. This spawned a mass of emails and phone calls to CBS Interactive which resulted in the statement released on Monday Dec. 17th. The statement from CBS Interactive was as follows:
“CBS Interactive, which oversees StarTrek.com, is reorganizing the way it does business to align the division's workforce with its new vision that focuses on building communities online.
'CBS Interactive remains absolutely committed to StarTrek.com and to growing the site along with it's users by directly tapping into and utilizing the passionate fan base that has supported the site.
'It has been your support and contributions to the lore of Star Trek that are what make STARTREK.COM a vibrant place to be. To the end, we encourage you to keep the conversation alive and flowing using our message boards.”
This announcement is found on the StarTrek.com site where the farewell message from the staff (which has been removed from the site) was originally located.
Only CBS knows for sure what the future holds for the site, but after the last three days, it is this writer's belief that they have been throughly reminded of the Trek Nation and that we are alive, very well, and still very vocal.
We will continue to monitor this story and report updates as they come available.
Discuss this column in our forums
If you wish to comment to Roddenberry.com about the situation, send an email to support@roddenberry.com
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Post by athene on Dec 30, 2007 17:45:43 GMT -6
I haven't looked at the site for a while. I hope they decide to leave it up and running.
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