This makes no sense...

[lance_sibley]

There's a new Trek film coming out in a year, and CBS decides to "restructure" their web team and eliminate the department that oversees STARTREK.COM?

WTF?

Well, so much for my contacts there helping to promote Polaris. :(

Comments

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

That could be it, though having met a couple of the people who worked on it (Sandy Stone and Larry Nemecek), I know they're both quite passionate about Star Trek and about the work they've done for fans. It just seems to me that CBS might be shooting themselves in the foot.

Unless JJ Abrams specifically wants his own people? I know that the screenwriters for the new film are pretty big fans too.

[crusherdisciple.livejournal.com]

I figured it was just CBS's asshat reaction to the writer's strike.

Wait- doesn't Viacom own CBS? Then the writers for startrek.com would probably be part of the freelancers that were striking.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Yes, Viacom owns CBS, but the movie division is still separate. I'm not sure where the website falls, though, since it includes elements from both sides.

The latest news is that apparently TPTB want to move their online content department up to the Bay Area. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me... you produce all of your entertainment products in Los Angeles, so you move a significant portion of your publicity engine to San Francisco?

But you could be right about it having to do with the strike. I don't know how many of the people working on the site are striking WGA members (Larry Nemecek might be, as he has a VOY writing credit). Or perhaps Paramount is trying to demonstrate that they don't make any money from online streaming by getting rid of the people who actually make said streaming possible. (Nose, cut, spite, face.)