I have heard the site will get a relaunch in 2009 with the new movie. If it does well than perhaps the site will stay if not dark days ahead for trekkies.

Who knows maybe the site was to expensive to maintain Like the StarWars.com site was before the premium content was charged for i hope startrek.com does not become a paysite like that, we shall see.

If the JJ picture fails star trek is officially finished. you cannot spend 150- 200 million dollars on a movie and have it be a massive flop and expect a franchise to be reborn out of that.

They have not gone with the edenFX guys who did tests for tos reamstered but were dropped in favor of cbs in house inferior cgi work. The edenFX guys did the mirror universe enterprise episodes with The consititution Class defiant . They also did less than stellar work on nemesis when the effects in nemesis are compared to those ILM did for First Contact. So ILM got the new film and the cgi budget for the effects is something like 60 million dollars.

Star Trek has always been about the Starship Enterprise if the trailer comes out in november and ILM nails the design the movie will at least get the trekkies into theaters. Though that alone won't carry a film of this magnitude they have to get general film audience like with star trek IV, and First Contact.

If the enterprise is botched and looks nothing Like the one seen in star trek the motion picture refit, the tv series, or the enterprise A (my personal Favorite) consider this a movie that i will not go to see.

I hope the Enterprise does not look More advanced in trek 2009 than the enterprise E looked, lol.

I remember one of the complaints about the NX-01 was that it looked so much more advanced and newer than the 60's tv enterprise. This had nothing to do with continuity and everything with the difference in production from the sixties to the 2000s a huge leap forward in effects. People that expected the effects to be even more primative than the first tv show to make it fit continuity could never be pleased.