Alan Bernard (30 January 1934 – 11 December 2011; age 77) was an Emmy Award-winning and Cinema Audio Society Award-winning sound mixer who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. Bernard was interviewed on 21 March 1994 during the location shooting for the episode "All Good Things...". This interview was part of the special feature "Starfleet Moments & Memories Year Seven" ("A Unique Family") on the TNG Season 7 DVD.
For his work on Star Trek, Bernard received the following Emmy Award nominations and wins for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series:
- 1988 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Where No One Has Gone Before", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Jerry Clemans
- 1989 Emmy Award for the episode "Q Who", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 1990 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 1991 Emmy Award for the episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 1992 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Next Phase", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 1993 Emmy Award for the episode "A Fistful of Datas", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 1994 Emmy Award for the episode "Genesis", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 1997 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Future's End", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
Bernard also received the following Cinema Audio Society Award nominations and wins for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series:
- 1994 CAS Award for the episode "Descent", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 1995 CAS Award nomination for the episode "Genesis", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 1998 CAS Award nomination for the episode "Future's End", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 2000 CAS Award nomination for the episode "Equinox", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
- 2001 CAS Award nomination for the episode "Unimatrix Zero", shared with Christopher Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
Prior to his work on Star Trek, Bernard won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing for The Savage Bees (1976). He earned five more Emmy Award nominations in the same category for his work on the television drama Having Babies II (1977), the television drama Baby Comes Home (1980), The Winds of War (1983, shared with Robert W. Glass, Jr. and Mel Metcalfe), The Jesse Owens Story (1984, shared with Mel Metcalfe and Terry Porter), and for the Crime Story pilot episode (1986, shared with Stewart D. McDonald, Jr.).
Among Bernard's earliest work in the sound department are credits on Three the Hard Way (1974, with Bill Varney) and the television series Gunsmoke (1974-1975) and The Ghost Busters (1975). Further credits as production sound mixer include A Family Upside Down (1978), the pilot episode of Knight Rider (1982), Porky's II: The Next Day (1983, with Malcolm Rennings), A Christmas Story (1983), and the television series The A-Team (1986) and MacGyver (1986-1987).
Star Trek credits[]
(This list is currently incomplete.)
- TNG:
- "Encounter at Farpoint" (TNG Season 1)
- "The Naked Now"
- "Code of Honor"
- "The Last Outpost"
- "Where No One Has Gone Before"
- "Lonely Among Us"
- "Justice"
- "The Battle"
- "Hide And Q"
- "Haven"
- "The Big Goodbye"
- "Angel One"
- "Too Short A Season"
- "When The Bough Breaks"
- "Home Soil"
- "Coming of Age"
- "Heart of Glory"
- "The Arsenal of Freedom"
- "Symbiosis"
- "Skin Of Evil"
- "We'll Always Have Paris"
- "Conspiracy"
- "The Neutral Zone"
- Season 2 (22 episodes)
- Season 3 (26 episodes)
- Season 4 (26 episodes)
- "Redemption II" (Season 5)
- "Darmok"
- "Ensign Ro"
- "Silicon Avatar"
- "Disaster"
- "The Game"
- "Unification II"
- "Unification I"
- "A Matter Of Time"
- "New Ground"
- "Hero Worship"
- "Violations"
- "The Masterpiece Society" (uncredited)
- "Conundrum" (uncredited)
- "The Outcast"
- "Cause And Effect"
- "The First Duty"
- "Cost Of Living"
- "The Perfect Mate"
- "Imaginary Friend"
- "I Borg"
- "The Next Phase"
- "The Inner Light"
- "Time's Arrow"
- Season 6 (26 episodes)
- Season 7 (26 episodes)