What happened to startrekhistory.com?

[Warped9]

I periodically check in on startrekhistory.com to see if they have any new content, but I recently realized I hadn't visited in quite awhile. Imagine my surprise and disappointment to see it not there and greeted by a message the site is on hiatus.

On another page you can see something regarding what the site project is about, but also with little tabs indicating a more advanced version of Adobe Flash is required to view some of the site's assets. Unfortunately Adobe Flash no longer exists so that means anyone visiting the site is SOL.

Does anyone know what has happened to the site and if it is set to return at some point? It was a great website.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Maybe the site went dark to avoid giving away so much content for free, when they'd rather you buy the book Star Trek: Lost Scenes. Just guessing.

 

[Maurice]

@alchemist @alchemist @alchemist

 

[Felderburg]

Given how much of it appears to rely on Flash, it's possible the site is being converted, or put on hiatus until a solution to that issue is found.

 

[Phaser Two]

I periodically check in on startrekhistory.com to see if they have any new content, but I recently realized I hadn't visited in quite awhile. Imagine my surprise and disappointment to see it not there and greeted by a message the site is on hiatus.

On another page you can see something regarding what the site project is about, but also with little tabs indicating a more advanced version of Adobe Flash is required to view some of the site's assets. Unfortunately Adobe Flash no longer exists so that means anyone visiting the site is SOL.

Does anyone know what has happened to the site and if it is set to return at some point? It was a great website.

Aren't the authors posters here? Maybe someone remembers their usernames and will tag them.

 

[Maurice]

Aren't the authors posters here? Maybe someone remembers their usernames and will tag them.

@alchemist

You can thank Cash Markman in part for the site being abandoned. He used images they restored in one of his books without asking permission, so they stopped adding stuff to the site because why let someone make a profit for your work?

For Fact Trek we have used several images provided by @alchemist but always with consent, and we always watermark the fuck out of them so other Cash wanna-be's can't use them without attribution to the people whose work restored them.

 

[Phaser Two]

@alchemist

You can thank Cash Markman in part for the site being abandoned. He used images they restored in one of his books without asking permission, so they stopped adding stuff to the site because why let someone make a profit for your work?

For Fact Trek we have used several images provided by @alchemist but we always watermark the fuck out of them so other Cash wanna-be's can't use them without attribution to the people whose work restored them.

Wait, Cash wrote a new book?? Or the site has been abandoned since his Cash Grab Trilogy? That can't be right, can it? I thought I visited it more recently. BTW good call on the watermarks.

 

[Maurice]

TATV Volume 1

 

[Ssosmcin]

Wait, Cash wrote a new book?? Or the site has been abandoned since his Cash Grab Trilogy? That can't be right, can it? I thought I visited it more recently. BTW good call on the watermarks.

And FYI, he's continuing to crank out the books. He just released a second volume on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea which is even more lazy and inaccurate than his TATV books. Trek fans probably got more value for their dollar.

 

[Phaser Two]

I'm actually facing a dilemma. I have the Cash Grab Trilogy; I bought it before I was sufficiently educated by the good folks here. (As it was, before I understood what Cash did, I found the books to be disappointing.) Now, they do have some tiny value, maybe just for the pictures. Should I keep them? If not, throwing them away seems a waste. And I don't want to donate them because I don't want someone receiving them or checking them out from a library and relying on them. What to do.

 

[GNDN18]

I'm actually facing a dilemma. I have the Cash Grab Trilogy; I bought it before I was sufficiently educated by the good folks here. (As it was, before I understood what Cash did, I found the books to be disappointing.) Now, they do have some tiny value, maybe just for the pictures. Should I keep them? If not, throwing them away seems a waste. And I don't want to donate them because I don't want someone receiving them or checking them out from a library and relying on them. What to do.

There’s always the Nero Wolfe gambit.

Spoiler

He ripped out the pages of Webster’s Third Edition and burned them.[/SPOLIER]

 

[Maurice]

I'm actually facing a dilemma. I have the Cash Grab Trilogy; I bought it before I was sufficiently educated by the good folks here. (As it was, before I understood what Cash did, I found the books to be disappointing.) Now, they do have some tiny value, maybe just for the pictures. Should I keep them? If not, throwing them away seems a waste. And I don't want to donate them because I don't want someone receiving them or checking them out from a library and relying on them. What to do.

Donate them to @Harvey , so we have the hard copies to refer to when debunking that noise.

 

[Phaser Two]

There’s always the Nero Wolfe gambit.

Spoiler

He ripped out the pages of Webster’s Third Edition and burned them.[/SPOLIER]

Not into book burning.

 

[GNDN18]

Not into book burning.

[Archie said,] “Besides, how about the comments I have heard you make about book burners?”​

“They are not relevant to this.” [Wolfe] yanked out more pages. “I am a man, not a government or a committee of censors. Having paid forty-seven dollars and fifty cents for this book, and having examined it and found it subversive and intolerably offensive, I am destroying it.” He dropped the pages on the fire.​

Some might find your book “subversive and intolerably offensive,” but YMMV.

 

[Phaser Two]

Anyone got any suggestions? I guess I could just keep them. Perhaps I'll donate them, but not to a library. I could always include a disclaimer. "Verify anything in here upon which you plan to rely."

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Starting with my first night on the Internet around 1999, I've been in the habit of saving a copy of anything I find interesting and might want to see again. A particular item, a blog, or a whole special-interest website can be taken down at any time, for any reason.

At this point I've got maybe a half-million things filed away, including a lot of stuff from StarTrekHistory. It's added up to a lot of work over the years, but at times this it feels like I did the right thing.

 

[Maurice]

Anyone got any suggestions? I guess I could just keep them. Perhaps I'll donate them, but not to a library. I could always include a disclaimer. "Verify anything in here upon which you plan to rely."

I made a suggestion. Did you miss it?

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

@alchemist

You can thank Cash Markman in part for the site being abandoned. He used images they restored in one of his books without asking permission, so they stopped adding stuff to the site because why let someone make a profit for your work?

For Fact Trek we have used several images provided by @alchemist but always with consent, and we always watermark the fuck out of them so other Cash wanna-be's can't use them without attribution to the people whose work restored them.

Calling @Indysolo.

 

[Phaser Two]

Starting with my first night on the Internet around 1999, I've been in the habit of saving a copy of anything I find interesting and might want to see again. A particular item, a blog, or a whole special-interest website can be taken down at any time, for any reason.

At this point I've got maybe a half-million things filed away, including a lot of stuff from StarTrekHistory. It's added up to a lot of work over the years, but at times this it feels like I did the right thing.

Yeah, I keep meaning to archive Chrissy's outstanding transcripts just in case. Do you have those saved?

 

[Maurice]

Yeah, I keep meaning to archive Chrissy's outstanding transcripts just in case. Do you have those saved?

Looks like the TOS ones at least are already on the Wayback Machine but the link from the most recent root page don't always correctly link up, but if you poke around to see earlier captures it seems to find them.