Star Trek: The Lost Era Star Trek: The Lost Era 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 "", 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 "" 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
Star Trek: The Original Series Trek", though he remained nominally in charge as its "executive producer". Roddenberry reduced his direct involvement in "Star Trek" before the start of the 1968–69 television season, and was replaced by Fred Freiberger as the producer of the television series. NBC next reduced "Star Trek's" budget by a significant amount per episode, as the per-minute commercial price had dropped from $39,000 to $36,000 compared to the Season 2 time slot. This caused what many perceive as a significant decline in quality for the 1968–69 season. William Shatner felt that the main characters became increasingly compromised or exaggerated while being involved