[captian beckett]

i'm still here

i got an idea that might make this place a bit more active

make some simulations

[Ensign James T. Kirk]

^^ Ok I'll bite.

Explain, please.

[captian beckett]

like the uss gorkon thread but more of them lol

we can have it in the future or parrell universes any thing you want

[Futureguy]

It would be great to start a ST XII rumors section.

[captian beckett]

cool

[starbase63]

Suppposedly the info for the message boards has been transferred over for the new boards at st.com, so the current ones are apparently dead boards walking.

I'm going to laugh when people find they may be several hundred posts lighter when they log into the new boards when they open...as the posts from July 1st on are not being retained...

[jla1987]

Originally Posted by starbase63

Suppposedly the info for the message boards has been transferred over for the new boards at st.com, so the current ones are apparently dead boards walking.

I'm going to laugh when people find they may be several hundred posts lighter when they log into the new boards when they open...as the posts from July 1st on are not being retained...

Any word on what shape the new ST.com will take beyond the forums?

[starbase63]

The site itself is being reworked by the net design team at Funny Garbage out of New York City...a little worried because the samples you can see of their work show a lot of BIG and WOW kind of sites, IMHO what you don't need for startrek.com. Many people felt the site as it is should have been repaired/reworked/updated...maybe they did keep it on a lower key. We'll know fairly soon.

It's likely the new boards will be in the Prospero format like many other CBS boards...not my favorite. I've even gotten to like these vBulletin boards better than Prospero.

[Futureguy]

Originally Posted by starbase63

The site itself is being reworked by the net design team at Funny Garbage out of New York City...a little worried because the samples you can see of their work show a lot of BIG and WOW kind of sites, IMHO what you don't need for startrek.com. Many people felt the site as it is should have been repaired/reworked/updated...maybe they did keep it on a lower key. We'll know fairly soon.

It's likely the new boards will be in the Prospero format like many other CBS boards...not my favorite. I've even gotten to like these vBulletin boards better than Prospero.

I had just started to look through startrek.com several years ago before they discharged a former web team and it seemed to go without any updating for some time, so I never really kept up with it for long.

[starbase63]

That team, dismissed in December 2007, was the group that started startrek.com, led by Marc Wade and Tim Gaskill, both Trek fans. After the Viacom reorganization and CBS started making staff cuts after acquiring Paramount Television and Paramount Digital Entertainment, the founding team was let go (including "Trek Life" artist David Reddick), and the site pretty much drifted, while the boards were put under the control of the CBS Sports division along with CBS Interactive.

The original team kept the site up to date and running right, such has not been the case since.

The good thing is, CBS Consumer Products, who will be in charge of the new site, has directed that the person in charge of the site must be a Trek fan...