Star Trek: The Lost Era
| Author |
Michael A. Martin Andy Mangels David R. George III Keith R. A. DeCandido Ilsa J. Bick Jeff Mariotte Margaret Wander Bonanno Christopher L. Bennett |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Published | August 2003 to June 2014 |
| Media type | Novel |
| No. of books | 8 |
| Preceded by | Star Trek: Gateways |
| Followed by | Star Trek: Destiny |
Star Trek: The Lost Era is a series of novels that take place during the time period between the 23rd century events of the film Star Trek Generations and the first season of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, set in 2364. Editor Marco Palmieri selected the authors for the series, and worked with some of them to develop ideas.
The Lost Era was designed to be similar to the Star Trek: Section 31 miniseries of novels produced by Pocket Books two years earlier. The idea was to fill in a period of unknown Star Trek timeline between Captain James T. Kirk's death in Star Trek Generations on board the USS Enterprise-B to the events of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Encounter at Farpoint". This was a period of 70 years that had not been covered by any film or television series before, although some had been mentioned such as the destruction of the USS Enterprise-C and the Tomed Incident. The books were to be unconnected in plot, but with thematic links.
Editor Marco Palmieri later said that the majority of the information already known about the period in Star Trek history was military in nature, with very little known about the social change or first contacts made in the 70-year gap. This meant that the information being presented to potential writers was limited, and resulted in a reduced variety of settings and stories than he'd originally envisaged. He specifically asked writers to look outside the limited information with the exception of two books which would deal with the Tomed and Betraka Nebula incidents, but found that the majority of proposals were related to military actions, political discourse or covert operations. He was able to select the authors for the series based on those pitches.
Palmieri helped to develop some of the elements of the books, with the Neyel created during the course of a phone conversation between him and Michael A. Martin, and would appear in The Sundered. The basic premise of these aliens was that they were to humans as the Romulans were to Vulcans; that being an offshoot race.David R. George III was working on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel Twilight when Palmieri offered him the chance to write The Lost Era novel featuring the Tomed Incident under the requirement that the book had to explain what happened, and additionally for there to be a segue from Twilight into the new book. In preparation for writing a Captain John Harriman story, he read Peter David's The Captain's Daughter, and chose to keep his new work in line with that, creating a background for the character as well in order to explain why he seemed so less capable than Kirk in Star Trek Generations.
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