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With CBS Interactive putting the official Star Trek Web site into some weird black hole of nothingness, one of the site's artists responsible for the comic strip "The Trek Life" is bringing his talent to another big name on the Web in terms of Star Trek: Roddenberry.com.

David Reddick, who also does work for the syndicated "Garfield" comic strip as well as his own strip "Ballonatiks," will start a new strip in January on Roddenberry.com called "Gene's Journal," Paul Keller, interactive director for Roddenberry Productions told Airlock Alpha.

A preview pane of this journal already is up at Roddenberry.com that includes a preview message from a "young Gene Roddenberry" addressed to "old Gene Roddenberry."

"My name is Gene Roddenberry," the note starts. "I am you, but when you were young. I am writing you this letter on the first page of my journal because when you're old and you read this, you may be too old to remember whose journal this is."

The new strip will focus on exploits of a young Gene Roddenberry, dramatized and probably even fictionalized in a way that is probably best fit for the late "Star Trek" creator who died in 1991. Roddenberry himself was known as someone who would beef up stories from his younger years, or outright create tall tales of different aspects of his life, which always made good listening for those he would tell the stories to.

Roddenberry.com was a Web site started by Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Gene Roddenberry's widow, in the late 1990s, and is currently operated by the couple's son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr.