Which Lost Era are you most interested in?
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If you can track down some of the older FASA Trek RPG, they have some interesting stuff from that era although elements of the game are naturally superseded by later series and are not entirely compatible. But much like the tie-in comics of the period, FASA had only TOS and the early movies as canon to go on, so they sometimes made up their own details to fill gaps. For its faults, I do like the RPG in many ways.
If you can track down some of the older FASA Trek RPG, they have some interesting stuff from that era although elements of the game are naturally superseded by later series and are not entirely compatible. But much like the tie-in comics of the period, FASA had only TOS and the early movies as canon to go on, so they sometimes made up their own details to fill gaps. For its faults, I do like the RPG in many ways.
One pretty large incompatibility was that FASA assumed that Alpha Centauri was a founding member of the Federation, and that Zefram Cochrane was actually a human-looking alien from that planet (the idea being that Cochrane discovered warp drive for the entire Federation, not just for Earth.)
IIRC, that had been referenced in a few other works like FJ's Technical Manual, although the idea that Alpha Centaurans were a distinct race from humans might have originated with FASA. I always found it a bit silly myself. 
I think FASA did base some of their stuff on details in the FJ TM.
I think FASA did base some of their stuff on details in the FJ TM.
That was my thinking as well, as FASA started later and drew on a number of contemporary sources, like John Ford's descriptions of Klingon culture and a number of plot lines dealing with the Klingons trying to circumvent the restrictions of the Organian treaty.
I still have the FASA Ship Recognition manuals of Federation, Klingon, and Romulan ships. There are some fascinating little stories in some of them, like how some ships were destroyed or disappeared. They even had one ship, the U.S.S. Blackheart, say it was named as such because of the black hearts painted on its hull.
If the TUC-TNG Era can re-examine the 1989 – 2001 period of Western history, then perhaps the Romulan War and post-ENT/pre-Cage era can re-examine the 2004-2012 period of Western history. I wouldn’t mind visiting those eras as time travel stories, if we don't get series about those eras.
I’d personally choose 24XX-3188 era. Specifically, the 26th century. Between seeing the Ent-I (presuming that’s what the Bismarck-class was in the unused Star Trek: Final Frontier idea), the Ent-J (captained by Dax), being 200 years after TNG/DS9/VOY, and being in the early days when the Federation was developing time travel ships, it seems like an interesting period to explore.
It's too bad they didn't make more use of the FASA designs in early TNG on displays etc. before they lost their Trek license.
Agreed. There were some really cool designs.
Really? Which episode?
(And is already ignored in Picard season 3. Oh well. It's the new XCV-330 Enterprise)
It's not a lost era really but I think a Captain Sulu Kelvinverse film would be cool. It's got to be around 2270s or so there now, probably too early for Excelsior, or maybe not, or just give him other ship without the "history" Excelsior brings with it. I think this would be a good idea to continue Kelvinverse without having to get all the cast back plus wind the budget up to astronomical amounts, and John Cho is great. I would love to see him running the ship and maybe they could just use existing Kelvinverse sets with a paintjob. I don't realistically see this happening though.
Working out the peace between UFP and Kronos and why the Romulans disappeared, would be interesting to watch. Sarek, Kirk and co winning the Nobel-Gorkon peace prize
We know why the Romulans went into isolation: blowback from the Tomed Incident. Unfortunately we don't know exactly what the Tomed Incident was, or why it caused them to isolate.
To prevent a Threemed incident?
