Star Trek: 10 Things You Need To Know About The Lost Era

In Star Trek, 'arrives on Tuesday' meant 'not for another 70 or so years'.

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[johncampbell]

The Uhura one. I have no problem with what you are calling an inconsistency. She "retired" in 2333 and was promoted to Admiral in SF Inteligence where she remained until after 2360. The timeline works fine without any mental gymnastics and even if she actually retired for a year or two and was offered the job later it still works.

[KaiCrafted]

I always thought Harriman was judged unfairly, he was on a brand new ship loaded with civilians and press and missing most of its critical staff and infrastructure.

AND he had the most legendary captain of the fleet hanging at the back of the room to boot. Dude handled things better than most, in my opinion

[andyfromtheuk]

Happy Star Trek day! Btw am I the only one who noticed that his name is now Ellie Littlechild?? 🤣

[Bec]

The subtitles an this video converted Cardassians to Karsashians 😅😅😅

I really want a series set in the Lost Era. I love the aesthetics of the uniforms, ship and set designs. It's a shame there was never a Captain Sulu series on board the Excelsior. And since Yesterdays Enterprise is my favourite episode of TNG, I'm really looking forward to Rachell Garrett coming back.

[gabormestyan]

I think, the Strange new worlds can go on after the obligatory injury of Captain Pike. The story can follow Ortegas, Noonien-Singh, Number One, and so on. We can reach the time of TNG-DS9-VOY and we can watch the young Picard, Riker, Janeway, Sisko, ... I think, the Strange new worlds don't need to be on the Enterprise. They can bring in new starships.

[CrimsonRevenant]

2340s are spicy. Narendra III, Khitomer, Cardassians, Tzenkethi, Tholians. They could easily make a Strange New Worlds like series on the lead up to to TNG. Best part of it is that you could easily have Sulu and Chekov as aging admirals on the verge of retirement.

[robg]

Happy Star Trek day folks! Live logs and proper!

[DG-tv]

I met George Takei at a convention back in the 90's, and when I asked him why we don't have a Sulu Series, he flatly responded "Because Paramount doesn't want a Gay man in the Captain's seat."

And this was before he officially came out.

[twocvbloke]

It is sad we didn't get the Sulu series, it would have been nice to have had that as a "lost era" show, but given that the end of Voyager was to bring in the prequel that was Enterprise, having two different eras would probably have cost them too much to make, so, sadly a Sulu series got the axe... :(

[ThiagoMacieira]

I really loved the Lost Era books. Exploring a previously-unexplored time gave a lot of background, like the Tomed Incident. And yes, a lot are military in nature, but The Buried Age book is not. In my opinion, that's the best of the lot, following Picard's own lost era: between the Battle of Maxia Zeta in 2355 and his taking command of the Enterprise-D. And the background story, with a 250-million-year-old mystery and reawakening the civilisation was very imaginative.

[usuckthereturn]

We need more Morn episodes….it can be like Charlie’s angels…IN SPACE!!!!

[gwenever]

Happy Star Trek Day everyone! "Avoid Death & Cower!"

[CelticCubby]

I would have loved to have seen an Uhura-Picard Short Trek and a Sulu-Rand series in particular. It would also be nice to spend time with the Enterprise -B and see Harriman pass on command to Demora.

[AzaleaJane]

They could totally make a whole bunch of one-off episodes just from this era. If they wanted they could incorporate previous Trek guest stars from the TOS/film era and set them in a time appropriate to those people's ages now. Like, that whole story with Harriman and the fake new technology sounds fantastic. Harriman's actor is 68 now. Make it happen!

[zooropa]

OT, but that book compiling all the novels (with occasional stories behind them) is utterly fantastic.

[lorensims]

Fascinating!
I've always thought of "The Lost Era" as the 1970s, after the end of the original series and before the movies and The Next Generation, when all we had were the "making of" books, the Animated Series (where the holodeck was introduced), the novels (which you have gone into in great detail here) and endless reruns of the original series (the best part of my life!).
The novel I remember from this time I think may have been called First Contact, about a Vulcan mother and son in Antarctica, trying to avoid detection because they may have travelled back in time and didn't want to cause an anachronism.

[FBobby]

I want the Tomed Incident. I think it's SOOO worth doing. There are so many amazing stories that could come out of that.

[andyross]

Ellie and Sean seem to look a bit different these past 2 days!

[Bored_Barbarian]

16:41 I’d still be happier with a legit series