Monday April 2, 2007

DuroSport and Star Trek: The Party’s Over

Yesterday, we posted our review of the Star Trek / DuroSport Video Download Service. As is usually the case with things involving the DuroSport Electronics Company, we thought that it was ill-conceived and kinda amateurish.

Today, the link to the service has been removed from the Star Trek website. While we don’t think that our review had anything specific to do with the removal — officially, that is — it seems like the people over at Star Trek came to their senses, and cut their losses pretty swiftly.

While we still wonder what kind of space junk they were smoking to get involved with the DuroSport in the first place, this seems like a welcome return to their senses. Now, if they can just get that J.J. Abrams movie into fast gear!

We urge CBS or Viacom or Paramount or whichever huge multinational corporation is in charge of Star Trek this week to take a good hard look at the people who run their website. Just sayin’.

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