Brannon Braga is an American television producer, director and screenwriter.
16 Facts About Brannon Braga
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Best known for his work in the Star Trek franchise, Braga was a key creative force behind three of the franchise's live action series.
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Brannon Braga later became an executive producer and writer on several Fox shows including 24, Terra Nova, and The Orville.
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Brannon Braga served as an executive producer on the Fox primetime series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a re-launch of the 1980 miniseries hosted by Carl Sagan for which Braga won a Peabody Award, Critics Choice Award, and Producers Guild Award.
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Brannon Braga served as writer, executive producer, and co-creator of the drama series Salem, WGN America's first original series.
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Brannon Braga started out as an intern on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990 as part of the Television Academy Foundation's internship program, eventually becoming a co-producer for the series final season.
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Brannon Braga then joined Star Trek: Voyager as a producer and was tapped to serve as executive producer the following year.
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Brannon Braga served as showrunner for Voyager until the end of the sixth season when he moved to Star Trek: Enterprise.
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Brannon Braga went on to co-create Star Trek: Enterprise and led that series as executive producer until its fourth and final season.
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Brannon Braga was an executive producer and writer on the 2009 ABC science fiction series FlashForward.
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Brannon Braga was the producer and one of the directors of the 2014 science education series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a sequel to the 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage that was hosted by Carl Sagan.
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The project saw Brannon Braga collaborating with the original series' writer and Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan, executive producer Seth MacFarlane and host Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
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Brannon Braga was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the show.
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Brannon Braga is one of the producers of The Orville, a 2017 science fiction comedy drama inspired by Star Trek.
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Brannon Braga attended Kent State University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, studying Theater Arts and Filmmaking.
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Brannon Braga gave a speech at the International Atheist Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2006, where he discussed mythologies, specifically the atheistic future for humanity that Gene Roddenberry imagined in Star Trek.