Brannon Braga will remain in Starfleet Command -- Paramount -- or at least the next three years, but will broaden his interests beyond Star Trek.
Paramount will pay the Trek executive producer "an estimated high seven figures" to helm the franchise -- and develop non-Trek series -- through 2003, entertainment daily Variety reported Thursday.
No information was immediately available on Braga's non-Star Trek projects.
"21st century Trek"
Likewise, details were sparse concerning the long-anticipated "fifth Star Trek series" that will follow
Voyager, which ends next spring.
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Braga told Variety the upcoming show would be "something that takes Star Trek into the 21st century . . . Star Trek at its core" but the project is still in the early stages.
He said the next series -- which he is creating with co-executive producer Rick Berman -- should still arrive sometime in 2001, in time to replace Voyager as the flagship Trek show.
Insiders have told SPACE.com that the as-yet-untitled fifth Trek -- actually the sixth, if one counts the animated follow-up to the original series -- will focus on the early years of the Federation, possibly "taking Trek into the 21st century" by actually bringing the focus backward to a point only a few decades from now.
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