Brannon Braga Named Executive Producer of Star Trek: Voyager

Posted on June 19, 1998

Paramount Network Television's Emmy Award-winning Star Trek: Voyager begins production on its fifth season this week. Production resumes with an episode entitled "Night" which will premiere Wednesday, October 14 (9:00-10:00 PM) on UPN. In the episode filming this week, Voyager encounters a large "void" of space where they will be forced to travel without contact with other worlds or beings. The result leaves the entire crew in a state of cabin fever -- and Captain Janeway doubting her decision to lead the U.S.S. Starship Voyager on its original mission.

Additionally, Brannon Braga has been named executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager. Braga will serve alongside Rick Berman as executive producer of the series who most recently served as co-executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager and has been an integral creative force on the show since its inception. Braga began his career with Star Trek when he received the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Writing Internship which later led to a permanent writing post on Paramount's Star Trek: The Next Generation. Braga has written over 50 Star Trek episodes, including the critically-acclaimed final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "All Good Things" for which he won the Hugo Award.

Star Trek: Voyager will air Wednesdays at 9:00 PM this fall on UPN. The series chronicles the 24th century explorations of the Starship U.S.S. Voyager as it searches for a way back to Earth from the remote reaches of the Delta Quadrant.