Star Trek: The Magazine ending publication

[Ineti]

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.

[First of Two]

Goddamn it. ST:TM is the best Star Trek magazine ever.

What ARE they thinking??

[Perrryyy]

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.

[Perrryyy]

What ARE they thinking??

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.

[Ineti]

Originally posted by Perrryyy
* = I am in no way suggesting that I ended the magazine single-handedly

It was you, I know it! The editors were like "Darn it! Perrryyy's cancelled his subscription! No sense going on now!"



Okay, maybe you're right. Still a shame to see it go. Time to snap up some back issues.

[Perrryyy]

Originally posted by Ineti
It was you, I know it! The editors were like "Darn it! Perrryyy's cancelled his subscription! No sense going on now!"

BWAHAHAHHA!!!

Fear me for I am the Elaysian trickster of doooom!

[Liquidator Queeg]

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

[AslanC]

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).

[Greg Smith]

The Fact Files have finished over here in the UK, too. 304 issues wasn't a bad run though.

[Perrryyy]

I think it is a sign when "Maid in Manhattan" makes more money than "Nemesis" that the Trek franchise is grinding down

Yeah

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

[Don Mappin]

That's too bad, although not entirely unexpected. That was one darn expensive magazine. I let my subscription lapse on purpose.

[Eric R.]

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.

[StyroFoam Man]

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[Ineti]

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.

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.