Hilary Bader, an Emmy-winning television writer who worked on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and "Superman: The Animated Series," has died. She was 50.

Bader died Thursday of breast cancer at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, said her husband, Jay Broad.

Bader was nominated seven times for a daytime Emmy Award. She shared the award last year for the animated "Batman Beyond," for which she had already won an Emmy. She also won an Emmy for "The New Batman/Superman Adventures."

Bader was born in New York and studied mime in Paris. She toured the United States performing story theater called "African Folk Tales." Bader moved to Hollywood to write for television, pitched a couple of scripts to "Star Trek" and got hired as a Writers Guild intern.

She also wrote for "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," "Xena: Warrior Princess" and "Silk Stalkings." Bader also wrote 38 comic books for DC Comics and several Web episodes of "Gotham Girls" and "Red Knuckles Gym."

She is survived by her husband; her mother, Evelyn Bader; and her sister, Stephanie Bader.

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