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 Paramount by 2002. Since 1967, hundreds of original novels, short stories, and television and movie adaptations have been published. The first original "Star Trek" novel was "Mission to Horatius" by Mack Reynolds, which was published in hardcover by Whitman Books in 1968. The first publisher of "Star Trek" fiction aimed at adult readers was Bantam Books. James Blish wrote adaptations of episodes of the original series in twelve volumes from 1967 to 1977; in 1970, he wrote the first original "Star Trek" novel published by Bantam, "Spock Must Die!" Pocket Books published subsequent "Star Trek" novels. Prolific "Star Trek" novelists