Masanobu Tomita
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Masanobu "Tomi" Tomita served as a sound editor on Star Trek: The Next Generation from the sixth season through the seventh. He began receiving screen credit for his work at the start of season six. He went on to work on Star Trek Generations and the entire run of Star Trek: Voyager. He then became a sound editor and later Supervising Sound Effects Editor on Star Trek: Enterprise. In addition, he was a sound effects editor on the video games Star Trek: Borg and Star Trek: Klingon.
Tomita's work on the canon Star Trek series helped the franchise receive seven Emmy Award nominations – including one win – for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series. Tomita and the sound editing staff of "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" (comprised of then-supervising editor Bill Wistrom, supervising music editor Gerry Sackman, and fellow editors Wilson Dyer, Mace Matiosian, Jim Wolvington, and Dan Yale) shared the Emmy Award for their work on that episode. Tomita's subsequent Emmy nominations were for his work on:
- TNG:
- "Power Play" (shared with Wilson Dyer, Gerry Sackman, Bill Wistrom, Jim Wolvington, and Dan Yale)
- "Time's Arrow, Part II" (shared with Jeff Gersh, Miguel Rivera, Gerry Sackman, Guy Tsujimoto, Bill Wistrom, Jim Wolvington, and Dan Yale)
- "Genesis" (shared with Ruth Adelman, Jeff Gersh, Mace Matiosian, Miguel Rivera, Gerry Sackman, Guy Tsujimoto, Audrey Trent, and Jerry Trent)
- VOY:
- "Equinox, Part II" (shared with Dale Chaloukian, Jeff Gersh, T. Ashley Harvey, Gerry Sackman, Bill Wistrom, and Jim Wolvington
- "Endgame" (shared with Dale Chaloukian, T. Ashley Harvey, Gerry Sackman, Bill Wistrom, and Jim Wolvington)
- ENT: "Broken Bow" (shared with Dale Chaloukian, T. Ashley Harvey, Hilda Hodges, Katherine Rose, Stephen M. Rowe, Shaun Varney, Bill Wistrom, and Jim Wolvington)
Besides his work on Star Trek, Tomita has worked on a few feature films. He was a sound recordist for the 1990 comedy Ski Patrol, working with fellow Trek sound engineers Doug Davey, Wilson Dyer, Chris Haire, Richard Morrison, Guy Tsujimoto, and Bill Wistrom. He later worked as a sound effects editor on the films The Only Thrill (1997) and Family Plan (1998). Fellow Trek sound department members Ruth Adelman, Dale Chaloukian, Doug Davey, Wilson Dyer, Chris Elam, Jeff Gersh, Chris Haire, Bill Henderson, Mace Matiosian, Richard Morrison, Jivan Tahmizian, Audrey Trent, Chris Trent, Jerry Trent, Guy Tsujimoto, Eric Williams, and Bill Wistrom also worked on both of these films; T. Ashley Harvey and Miguel Rivera worked on the former.
Tomita more recently worked with Guy Tsujimoto on the 2004 short film RocketScience.
