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Sad but true. According to their website, the April 2003 issue will be the last.
I called them today; anyone who has a subscription over that date will get a refund for the difference.
It's a shame to see this one go. It's a good magazine with tons of great reference material.
Goddamn it. ST:TM is the best Star Trek magazine ever.
What ARE they thinking??
Shame to see it go, even though I cancelled my subscription last year. (I never really read it, and it was an added drain on my pocketbook, so I decided to cut my losses.)
I suspect it's my kind of sentiment*, (cancelling subscriptions = less operating $$) that contributed to decision to end publication
* = I am in no way suggesting that I ended the magazine single-handedly, rather that reduced numbers of subscriptions contributed to the demise of the mag.
Not sure, but as I indicated in my post, I'll bet all you have to do is, "follow the money" (or perhaps lack thereof), and you'll find your culprit.Quote:
What ARE they thinking??
It was you, I know it! :D The editors were like "Darn it! Perrryyy's cancelled his subscription! No sense going on now!"Quote:
Originally posted by Perrryyy
* = I am in no way suggesting that I ended the magazine single-handedly
:)
Okay, maybe you're right. Still a shame to see it go. Time to snap up some back issues.
BWAHAHAHHA!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Ineti
It was you, I know it! :D The editors were like "Darn it! Perrryyy's cancelled his subscription! No sense going on now!"
Fear me for I am the Elaysian trickster of doooom! :D
I had to pay $12+ for a single issue up here in the GWN. That's a ridiculous sum for a monthly magazine. I guess many others also felt the same.
*shrugs*
May sound cold, but I'm not crying over the fact that it's going to the nether realm.
Steve
I think it is a sign when "Maid in Manhattan" makes more money than "Nemesis" that the Trek franchise is grinding down. Paramount/Vicaomm and all their subsidiaries have always shown that they have a lack of willingness to spend too much money on Trek.
DS9 was weakly rated.
Voyager and Enterprise have been ratings disasters.
I think it is fair to speculate that perhaps Star Trek needs a vacation... or something to rejuvinate it.
I will miss the magazine, though I stopped buying it when every issue featured soemthing on Enterprise for about 4 or 5 months in a row (or so it seemed).
The Fact Files have finished over here in the UK, too. 304 issues wasn't a bad run though. :)
Yeah :pQuote:
I think it is a sign when "Maid in Manhattan" makes more money than "Nemesis" that the Trek franchise is grinding down
While playing on HSX (Hollywood stock market) I went long on Nemesis @ 22, with the idea that it would make at least as much as the previous movies (which where all in the 20's for the first weekend), especially with all the hype (admittedly, most of it on this board, which is Trek anyhoo, but still...) . It made 19.
I got my shorts handed to me :p :( :rolleyes:
That's too bad, although not entirely unexpected. That was one darn expensive magazine. I let my subscription lapse on purpose.
Well sad to see it go, especially since I was hopeing for the same treatment for the DS9 DVD sets like the TNG ones were getting. At the same time since I paid cover price for every issue since #1 and that the colection was starting to take up way to much shelf space (I just moved the collection downstairs into the basement book dungeon) I can say I am a little happy to see it end now. They have made alot of nice illustrations and I am sure they will be seen again in he Encyclopedia when ever it is reprinted again.
Maybe Communicator will start to have technical briefings now (both mags were published by the same publisher I think) say maybe one or two an issue would not be too bad.
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IIRC, they did have ads, but it was for weird-ass stuff like "How to be a good small-talker" and that sort of thing. Very weird.Quote:
Originally posted by StyroFoam Man
All kidding aside. There were no ads in that rag other than the fanboy startrek crap. Now if they had run ads for REAL products then they might have survived.
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The ads struck me as odd. "Learn to get over your inability to interact with others..." ;)
I'm not sure how much many it made - most of their tech briefings popped up on the internet moments after an issue was released (or before, since they originally came from Fact Files)
More decontamination scenes :DQuote:
Originally posted by StyroFoam Man
More cleavage? :D
:rolleyes:
full spread layouts of IBG, TWBGLDGF, and LGT! :D
Forget layouts! You wanna revitalize Star Trek? You want a feature film that TENS of MILLIONS will go mad to see?Quote:
Originally posted by Perrryyy
More decontamination scenes :D
:rolleyes:
full spread layouts of IBG, TWBGLDGF, and LGT! :D
"Star Trek IBG: The (High-speed Naked) Motion Picture!" :D
So you guys gonna shang-hi this thread too?
I never got into it; too costly.
Few ads that would pay much of anything
Star Trek far less popular than Star Wars in the eyes of the general public
Expensive magazine up against a shrinking fan base
The only Star Trek show on currently has not-so-hot ratings
That's not to keep a magazine running on.
Indeed this may be a sign of Star Trek in general
The Star Trek franchise is currently in disarray; TOS had a fanatically loyal (if not particularly huge) fan base; TNG is long time gone; DS9 and Voyager never caught on to the same level and, as indicated above, Enterprise even less so. In a lot of ways Star Trek seems "old hat" to a lot of folks.
If the franchise wants to stay alive, it's going to need to do something really spectactular or it is going to watch its fanbase diminish even further.
Maybe the need some movies not tied to a tv series? Maybe they need more space battles? Maybe they DO need more cleavage? I don't have the real answers, but Star Trek is definitely fading from the general public's mind.
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..or just fewer ads, period. I cancelled PCMagazine for the same reason. Ads for what were IMHO, useles geek trash.Quote:
Originally posted by StyroFoam Man
Next time, try running more adds for useful stuff. :rolleyes:
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Eh.. I see your point. I just hate seeing mags that are 25% (or more) ads & declining percentages of "real content".Quote:
Originally posted by StyroFoam Man
Gotta disagree. It's the lack of ad revenue that killed them. I'm not saying ads on every page, but they needed to get ad-contracts with usefull products or services. Not monogramed foil-printed Trek-Checks that cost $95 for a box of twenty.
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Touche' :DQuote:
Originally posted by StyroFoam Man
Declining precentages of content? Like our posts? :D
"We regret to inform you that STAR TREK: The Magazine will cease production after the April 2003 issue...
...We apologize for any disappointment this causes and assure you the decision to stop producing the magazine has been taken reluctantly."
Hmmm. Did they lose a license, or did Paramount pull the plug? Just like them to scrap something that was decent.
Oh, well. I think my subscription to Communicator kicks in soon.
Pseroanlly their content has been going down hill a bit anyways (IMHO).
I always enjoyed getting the articles for the behind the scene stuff. Things that might look original or at least different from the shows that I could introduce. Seems material like that has been dwindling and for the longest time it seemed like the only things they really showed was TNG: First Contact. (I'm sick of seeing the sketches for their "civilian outfits").
They've done some articles on Enterprise but nothing really that screams to me. No uniforms, nothing major on the ships. Even Nemesis seemed a lil lackluster in their "all Nemesis" issue. And the 2nd half of the "let's tour the Enterprise-D" really got to me. Not that I did appreciate it, gave me ideas for other ships. I don't recall seeing a "to be continued next month" and reading the intro made it sound like a different article, not a continuation.