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Yet Another Reason to Hate CBS...

CBS has fired the entire production staff at a popular Web site devoted to the iconic Star Trek television series, raising questions about the site's future.

"Sadly, we must report that the CBS Interactive organization is being restructured, and the production team that brings you the StarTrek.com site has been eliminated," said a blog post from the team that appeared Friday on the Web site.

The post said that the move is "effective immediately" and added that "We don't know the ultimate fate of this site." CBS officials did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.  More...

Who Are They Calling Cheezy??

From Wired Magazine: Having conquered television, movies, videogames, comic books, paperbacks and lunch boxes, the original Star Trek crew moves into high definition this week. The first season of Star Trek: The Original Series beams onto store shelves Tuesday in an HD DVD/DVD combo pack that looks better than ever.

To celebrate, we're reliving the glory of 10 of the best monsters and creatures to stomp, ooze or float across the screen in the groundbreaking TV series. Thanks to the magic of high def, and a painstaking digital remastering effort, you can now see these monsters in more detail than ever before -- although, to be fair, that doesn't make them look any more convincing. More...

Star Trek is Academic!

It's the PhD thesis that boldly goes where no thesis has gone before. Djoymi Baker watched 700 episodes - 624 hours without ads - of Star Trek and its spin-offs, dating from 1966 to 2005, in the name of research.

She analysed the series armed with an exhaustive knowledge of the characters and storylines of ancient mythology - from Homer's Odyssey down.  More...

Star Trek Posters

Click here for a great collection of Star Trek inspirational posters!

Memory Alpha

Memory Alpha is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek. The database is organized in a WikiWiki structure, which allows an incredible level of interconnectedness and expansion. It started in November 2003, and the database currently includes 19,106 articles.  Trivia Question: In the Next Generation episode Sarek, Sarek is moved to tears during Data's Mozart recital.  But the music playing at the time was not composed by Mozart.  Instead, it was composed by whom?

4 8 15 16 23 42

In the TV show Lost, a map appears briefly on the Blast Door inside the Swan while Locke is pinned by the door during the lockdown incident.  The map includes a number of mathematical equations.  It also includes some tantalizing clues about the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 that appear in many of the episodes.  To read more about the show, check out the new Lostpedia.  For an annotated version of the map, click here or here.  For an interactive version, click here.  All of this came from a blurry image that appeared briefly on the screen.