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 new cast portraying the crew of the original show. "Star Trek" was a prequel of the original series set in an alternate timeline, known as the "Kelvin Timeline". This gave the film and future sequels to it freedom from the need to conform to the franchise's canonical timeline. The eleventh "Star Trek" film's marketing campaign targeted non-fans, even stating in the film's advertisements that "this is not your father's "Star Trek"". The film earned considerable critical and financial success, grossing (in inflation-adjusted dollars) more box office sales than any previous "Star Trek" film. The plaudits include the franchise's first Academy