Masanobu "Tomi" Tomita (born 3 May 1958; age 66) is a sound editor who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek Generations, and the video games Star Trek: Klingon and Star Trek: Borg.
For his work on Star Trek, Tomita received the following Emmy Award nominations and win in the category Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series:
- 1991 Emmy Award for the episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", shared with Bill Wistrom, James Wolvington, Mace Matiosian, Wilson Dyer, Dan Yale, and Gerry Sackman
- 1992 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Power Play", shared with Bill Wistrom, James Wolvington, Wilson Dyer, Dan Yale, and Gerry Sackman
- 1993 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Time's Arrow, Part II", shared with Bill Wistrom, James Wolvington, Miguel Rivera, Guy Tsujimoto, Jeff Gersh, Dan Yale, and Gerry Sackman
- 1994 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Genesis", shared with Mace Matiosian, Ruth Adelman, Miguel Rivera, Guy Tsujimoto, Jeff Gersh, Gerry Sackman, Jerry Trent, and Audrey Trent
- 2000 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Equinox", shared with Bill Wistom, James Wolvington, Ashley Harvey, Dale Chaloukian, Jeff Gersh, and Gerry Sackman
- 2001 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Endgame", shared with Bill Wistrom, James Wolvington, Ashley Harvey, Dale Chaloukian, and Gerry Sackman
- 2002 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Broken Bow", shared with Bill Wistrom, James Wolvington, Ashley Harvey, Dale Chaloukian, Shaun Varney, Stephen M. Rowe, Hilda Hodges, and Katherine Rose
Besides his work on Star Trek, Tomita has worked on a few feature films. He was a sound recordist for Ski Patrol (1990, with fellow Trek sound engineers Doug Davey, Wilson Dyer, Christopher Haire, Richard Morrison, Guy Tsujimoto, and Bill Wistrom). He later worked as a sound effects editor on 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, Christopher 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 also worked with Guy Tsujimoto on the 2004 short film RocketScience. More recent work as sound editor and sound designer includes NCIS (2005-2009, with Dale Chaloukian), Law Abiding Citizen (2009, with Mark P. Stoeckinger), and the video games Bayonetta (2009), MAG (2010), Lost Planet² (2010), and Kinect Adventures! (2010).
Star Trek credits[]
- TNG:
- "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" – Sound Editor (uncredited, Season 4)
- "Power Play" – Sound Editor (uncredited, Season 5)
- Season 6 – Sound Editor (26 episodes)
- Season 7 – Sound Editor (26 episodes)
- VOY:
- ENT: "Broken Bow" – Sound Editor (Season 1)