The Lost Years

The missing chapter in Star Trek history – revealed at last!
The Lost Years is a Pocket TOS novel – the first novel in the Lost Years series – written by J.M. Dillard. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in hardback in .
== Summary ==
;From the book jacket
:After the end of the s five-year mission, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship. The newly-promoted Admiral Kirk is placed in charge of a specially-created Starfleet division and attempts to defuse a critical hostage situation; Mr. Spock, who, in the midst of a teaching assignment on , finds the one thing he least expected; and Dr. McCoy, whose unerring instinct for trouble lands him smack in the middle of an incident that could trigger an interstellar bloodbath.
== Background information ==
* The novel fills in the gap between the end of the five-year mission and the events of .
* Admiral Nogura's promotion of Kirk in the novel follows in the aftermath of the events in the novel Dreadnought! and the scandal surrounding the disgraced Admiral Rittenhouse.
* Cover art by Joseph Csatari; jacket design by Amy C. King.
* The Lost Years reached number twelve on the New York Times Best Seller List for , its fifth week on the list. It remained on the list for at least six weeks. The paperback edition reached number thirteen on the Paperback Best Seller List for , its first week on the list. 
* The Science Fiction Book Club released a special edition of the hardback in .
=== Cover gallery ===
File:The Lost Years paperback cover.jpg|Paperback cover
File:The Lost Years audiobook cover, US cassette edition.jpg|Audiobook cover, US cassette edition
File:The Lost Years audiobook cover, UK cassette edition.jpg|Audiobook cover, UK cassette edition
== Characters ==
; James T. Kirk
; Spock
; Leonard McCoy
; Kevin Riley
; Nogura
== References ==
== External links ==
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