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]

I think I must have heard about this before, because when I just went to send an email to the content producer (kradical introduced us at Dragon*Con, but it turned out he remembered me from a panel at the 2006 Worldcon), a similar subject line popped up, suggesting that I'd sent a similar email before. However, a search of my Sent folder failed to find it.

And yeah, I know that CBS and Paramount are probably a little tired of Trek fans in general, but OTOH, they're spending $135 million on the new movie...

[kairi-kiss.livejournal.com]

its a freaking condendrum thats what it is, and yes i know that there was some fear, and discussion on the topic of startrek.com before, cause i was following it rather closely, but i dont know if i still have the emails, sigh

what a pair we are eh???

Still i think the uproar of trying to ditch the site would be disasterous?

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

what a pair we are eh???

Not just us. ;) I found out about it from a thread at TrekBBS.

Still i think the uproar of trying to ditch the site would be disasterous?

It's hard to say. There's a significant portion of Trek fandom that has become rather cynical and will look at this as CBS just trying to kill the franchise. They'll just roll their eyes and go on. Others will be more "the sky is falling!!!" about it.

Perhaps briankit is right (see below), and they just want to bring in a new team. I can't see them completely ditching the site altogether - just having the name of the site would probably be quite valuable in itself.

Come to think of it, though, I do miss one thing from the last restructure - they used to have a Trek encyclopedia tied into it, where you could look up names, places, etc. I think they got rid of that a few years ago. I always found that useful when I was researching panel topics. Maybe they'll turn the site into something like that (he said hopefully).

[kairi-kiss.livejournal.com]

yes, briankit has a point,

i have enjoyed our convo, but i think i am on kid duty tomorrow, so i am going to go to bed now, Hugs dear, talk to you soon,

oh and brian, nice LJ home btw, i like to see the doctor is in

[marahsk.livejournal.com]

they used to have a Trek encyclopedia tied into it, where you could look up names, places, etc. I think they got rid of that a few years ago. I always found that useful when I was researching panel topics.

I'm no encyclopedia, but my brain is filled with random bits of Trek trivia. Feel free to ask me stuff if you get stuck on some minor Trek detail.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

I have a pretty good memory (particularly for TOS) and some good reference books, but sometimes they just don't have what one is looking for.

[marahsk.livejournal.com]

Feel free to ask me anything you can't find. I will probably know it, or be able to find out; I have pretty good Google Fu.