LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Science fiction series Star Trek: Voyager will face its final season next year on the UPN television network, but talks have already begun for a new series based on the classic 1960s TV show Star Trek, network officials said on Monday. Voyager helped launch the fledgling network in January 1995 and has remained a cornerstone of its programming ever since. It remains popular, but UPN and the show's producers figured that after next season, its seventh, Voyager will have ventured to all the strange and exotic places on fringes of space that it can. Tom Noonan, who heads UPN's programming division, promised advertisers a surprising conclusion and a smashing finale for the show at a special meeting on the Paramount Pictures movie studio lot to preview the network's 2000/2001 season. Network chief Dean Valentine said UPN was already talking to the show's producers about a new Star Trek series to take its place, but he remained mum on any details.