a four-part comic book series Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hive for IDW, which made its debut in 2012. 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. The project saw Braga collaborating with the original series' writer and Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan, executive producer Seth MacFarlane and host Neil DeGrasse Tyson. The 13-episode series premiered March 9, 2014, and received mostly positive reaction from critics and viewers. Braga was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the show. The following month saw the premiere of the historical fantasy drama television series Salem, which Braga co-created with Adam Simon, and on which he serves as one of the executive producers. in 2014, he directed the Marilyn Manson music video "Cupid Carries a Gun" off The Pale Emperor album. Braga is one of the producers of The Orville, a 2017 science fiction comedy drama inspired by Star Trek. He also directed several episodes of the series. Personal life Braga attended Kent State University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, studying Theater Arts and Filmmaking. During production of Star Trek: Voyager, Braga dated star Jeri Ryan for several years after she joined the cast in the fourth season. Between February and November 2000, they were stalked by Marlon Estacio Pagtakhan, who was convicted for harassment and threats in May 2001. Braga gave a speech at the International Atheist Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland in 2006, where he discussed mythologies, specifically the atheistic future for humanity that Gene Roddenberry imagined in Star Trek. Filmography Film Television References External links Brannon Bragaprofile on the official Star Trek site Brannon Bragaon Star Trek as atheist mythology 1965 births American atheists American male screenwriters American television producers Hugo Award-winning writers Kent State University alumni Living people Showrunners Writers from Bozeman, Montana Writers from Canton, Ohio University of California, Santa Cruz alumni American people of Portuguese descent Screenwriters from Montana American male television writers