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By: dr_iacovone (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:44:03 on Aug 17, 2005

Very sad for trek fans.

Trek cancelled this year and will probably be years before we get anything back.

Reruns are more or less nixed until wee hours of the night, unless you video recorded them, or shelled out the money for the dvds.

Now the communicator and the Fan club is in Limbo.

Is there any other shaft we can get from Trek?

Maybe Viacom/Parmount are working on a device to suck out any brain waves with any hint of Trek out of our brains.

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Where, O Where, to Begin | Report this post to moderator
By: DustMan (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:51:26 on Aug 16, 2005

Um, I'm not sure where Mr Nemecek is getting his information from, but he (and, by extention, this article) is not entirely accurate.

Decipher has not "gone down." They are in a period of retrenchment, and have had three rounds of layoffs within the last year, primarily due to the catastrophic failure of the WARS CCG (an adaption of their Star Wars CCG Mechanics in a proprietary setting). They are not gone yet, and are saying that things are coming back on track, as noted here.

I have no clue what is going on with the Star Trek Fan Club or the Communicator, since I am not a member or subscriber, but they are still working on the CCG, with a release in a couple of weeks, world championships at GenCon this coming weekend, and a full expansion next month, plus the impending products for their LOTR lines.

This isn't to say that everything is rosy. Decipher has a lot of problems right now, especially PR wise as these issues demonstrate. But declaring them dead before they even have a chance to recover is counterproductive.

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By: Defiant (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 09:22:13 on Aug 16, 2005

A month or two ago, I saw that they charged my card for an extra year of subscription.

I NEVER add any auto-renewal on anything, so I complained, and they reversed it.

Lucky me.

-Defiant

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By: Defiant (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 09:21:58 on Aug 16, 2005

A month or two ago, I saw that they charged my card for an extra year of subscription.

I NEVER add any auto-renewal on anything, so I complained, and they reversed it.

Lucky me.

-Defiant

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So what's the deal with editing my posts? | Report this post to moderator
By: The Flashlight (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:46:39 on Aug 16, 2005 | (2)

EDIT - disregard the post title, my mistake

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Couldn't be happening to a nicer bunch of people | Report this post to moderator
By: The Flashlight (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:18:28 on Aug 16, 2005 | (3)

This really warms the cockles of my heart. Decipher has been ripping off and screwing fans for years with their overpriced little bits of cardboard. Let's hope Kathy McKracken and Even Lorentz were first on the layoff chopping block. Dumping my Trek cards and selling them on eBay at a loss was one of the best decisions I ever made. After they betrayed supporters of the original game by discontinuing it and starting up that crappy 2nd edition of ST:CCG, I was definitely through with the entire CCG world. I won't even get into how they utterly screwed Star Wars fans.

Now they're being sued by tournament winners they haven't paid? Reneging on their "fan dollars"?Pathetic. Best of luck to the fans that are hauling them into court, I hope they get every penny owed to them and then some.

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