It may not be an opinion shared by everyone, and there would certainly be pockets of brightness, not just our heroes vs everyone else.
The "Lost Years"
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Still too much suckage. Star Trek is about brightness with a few pockets of darkness.
More bureaucratic and ennui than miserable fog of war dystopian nihilism.
On that note, a regret expressed by those involved with The Lost Era novel series was that most of the stories they told were military or espionage themed, with very little exploration or more traditional Trek fare. Indeed, out of the initial six novels released in 2003 only two dealt with exploration as a central plot point, and they still had a military or espionage related subplot. It was one of those things that the authors realized in hindsight that everything established about the time period on the shows was more about conflict, war, disaster and other incidents therefore dictating the kinds of stories a series in this era could tell.
Later Lost Era novels such as The Buried Age and One Constant Star did have more of an exploration angle to them, though there were still three other military themed ones. Granted, that was by necessity given they were a trilogy about the Bajoran Occupation.
From what I understand, from the 2290s to about the 2350's, there was probably little advancement in Federation tech until the switch from duotronics to isolinear systems in 2329, which probably accounted for the switch from the older TMP-era ships like the Excelsior, Miranda, Oberth and Constellation to the Galaxy class family of designs in the 2350's, while those older ships were upgraded over several decades. I'm still not sure where the Ambassador class comes into the picture, seeing as the class could have been commissioned pretty much any time between the 2300's and the 2340's. I would like to think that they started production in 2330 after the switch to isolinear tech, but the Enterprise-C still had a lot in common with the TMP era, at least with the interiors.
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For what it's worth, the novel One Constant Star has the class prototype USS Ambassador undergoing its trials in 2319.
I usually don't consult non-canon information (although I have read all the Lost Era novels.) But it remains to be seen if the Section 31 movie's version of the Lost Era is any better than what was in the books. It's entirely possible we won't see any Starfleet vessels at all.
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The Enterprise-C, Captain Rachel Garrett
What really happened to the alternate Tasha Yar (Sela's word alone ain't much to go by).
Also, why all of Starfleet changed to those bulky, tomato colored jackets with the turtleneck sweaters underneath? Did starships get colder?
And finally, why did it take so long for someone to invent communicators small enough to fit inside the badges? (I have to assume that the two stalling factors were fitting the Universal Translator in there, and making it able to broadcast far enough for an away team on a planet to communicate with the orbiting starship.)
What really happened to the alternate Tasha Yar (Sela's word alone ain't much to go by).
Also, why all of Starfleet changed to those bulky, tomato colored jackets with the turtleneck sweaters underneath? Did starships get colder?
And finally, why did it take so long for someone to invent communicators small enough to fit inside the badges? (I have to assume that the two stalling factors were fitting the Universal Translator in there, and making it able to broadcast far enough for an away team on a planet to communicate with the orbiting starship.)
Heh ... Shrinkage, has always been something that MAN-kind has most often tried to avoid. <snicker>
That happened in the 2280s between TMP and TWOK. I think you meant to say that they ditched the turtleneck in the Lost Era. Fashion trends!
In TMP, they wore communicators on their wrist. I guess Starfleet lost the Apple Watch contract shortly after...
If we are to believe the events of DSC, Section 31 already had commbadges in the 2250's pre-TOS.
I've mentioned before that it could kinda split into three periods:
-2393 up to the Tomed Incident in 2311, Romulans being the main enemy
-2311 to the 2340 (peaceful expansion?)
-2340s to 2364: Cardassian war and a bunch of other smaller wars (basically so they could reference them in TNG and DS9)
-2393 up to the Tomed Incident in 2311, Romulans being the main enemy
-2311 to the 2340 (peaceful expansion?)
-2340s to 2364: Cardassian war and a bunch of other smaller wars (basically so they could reference them in TNG and DS9)
Novelists are not considered as being canon contributors to Trek continuity, hence why they only write fan fic/books on an ad-hoc basis and more often than not rarely being asked to contribute to live action canon shows or movies. This does not negatively reflect on the quality of the novelists content in any way, some of them are *really* good, it just means that what they write is not considered canon as the content that they create does not fit into continuity, and they also do not know how to write scripts which can often be a bit more complicated
The ‘Lost Years’ has always been a bit of a Star Trek ‘Dark Ages’ for me… this does not mean that this time period should be written in a dark way, in my context, ‘dark’ quite literally means that not much is known about this time period due to the loss of recorded written records after the fall of the Roman Empire. But now I am mixing up Star Trek with real life history, hehe!
I'd be up for a "Lost Era" set somewhere other than a starship (Enterprise or otherwise). At least as long as SNW is on the air. Really liked the Vanguard novels which runs current with TOS. Something like that maybe. A "spiritual successor" to DS9 
Throw Garrett in there as a pre-E assignment, if you like.
Throw Garrett in there as a pre-E assignment, if you like.
Trek novel are not considered "fan fiction" on the simple basis that the authors get paid for their work.
Which is completely irrelevant.
There are 2 novels with Harriman and Demora and 1 with Garrett under the Lost Era series of books
