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 Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), the first African-American woman to hold such an important role in an American television series; the captain's yeoman, Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney), who departed midway through the first season; and Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett), head nurse and assistant to McCoy. Walter Koenig joined the cast as Ensign Pavel Chekov in the series' second season. In February 1966, "Star Trek" was nearly cancelled by Desilu Productions, before airing the first episode. Desilu had gone from making just one half-hour show ("The Lucy Show"), to deficit financing a portion of two expensive hour-long shows, "" and "Star