CBS shuts down Startrek.com after 13 years [Update]

Thankfully, TNG Red Shirts lasted longer

After thirteen years as THE source for Star Trek news and a gathering point for fans of the franchise, Startrek.com was given the axe:

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.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

UPDATE - Looks like someone came in and erased the former production team's heartfelt goodbye and replaced it with some good old-fashioned marketspeak:

Keep the conversation going on StarTrek.com boards

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 its 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 that end, we encourage you to keep the conversation alive and flowing using our message boards.

Jump into the conversation here!

The person who posted that tripe either forgot or doesn't know how to add a hyperlink in HTML. Mayhap they shouldn't have canned the web team.

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*gulp* What the hell was CBS thinking with this move?

How the **** are you going to build communities by eliminating the community caretakers?

Utter stupidity...

That's exactly what I said. If CBS were absolutely committed to StarTrek.com they would have left it alone and given the team more resources.

Welcome to the world of Online Operations. The first team to get the axe is the Community Relations. Seemingly however, the company expects things to go without a hitch and become bewildered when the community turns ill-favored.

I'm thinking its a big plot by LucasArts... ST: 0 SW: 1