Jerry Bono (27 December 1941 – 31 August 2007; age 65) worked as a key costumer on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He joined The Next Generation in its fifth season, first receiving on-screen credit in "Darmok". He began working on the sixth season, as well, but left after "Realm Of Fear" (the second episode of the season) to work on Deep Space Nine, on which he remained for all seven seasons.
Homage was paid to Bono near the end of the 2018 documentary What We Left Behind from former Deep Space Nine showrunner Ira Steven Behr.
Career[]
Bono was born and raised in southwestern Illinois and trained as an actor at the Pasadena Playhouse. Drafted into the US Army shortly after completing his studies at the Playhouse, Bono arranged and performed in a number of plays for the Army while serving in the Panama Canal Zone. Following his stint in the military, Bono's work at a Hollywood clothing store landed him a job in the wardrobe department of a Star Trek holiday special, leading to a wardrobe career in film and television.
In addition to his work on Star Trek, Bono was a costumer on such television series such as B.J. and the Bear, Voyagers!, and Airwolf. He later worked as men's costumer on the 1991 television movie Switched at Birth and was a costumer on films such as The Vanishing, Speechless, and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (the latter of which starred Whoopi Goldberg). He also served as the first Vice President of the Pasadena Playhouse Alumni & Associates' executive board.
Bono died in Sherman Oaks, California, on 31 August 2007. He was 65 years old.
Star Trek credits[]
The following are the episodes in which Bono received on-screen credit as key costumer. Note that the costumer credits were in a weekly rotation, meaning that Bono also worked on episodes in which he was not credited.
- TNG:
- "Redemption II" – Set Costumer (Season 5, uncredited)
- "Darmok" – Key Costumer
- "Ensign Ro" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Silicon Avatar" – Key Costumer
- "Disaster" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "The Game" – Key Costumer
- "Unification II" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Unification I" – Key Costumer
- "A Matter Of Time" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "New Ground" – Key Costumer
- "Hero Worship" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Violations" – Key Costumer
- "The Masterpiece Society" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Conundrum" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Power Play" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Ethics" – Key Costumer
- "The Outcast" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Cause And Effect" – Key Costumer
- "The First Duty" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Cost Of Living" – Key Costumer
- "The Perfect Mate" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "Imaginary Friend" – Key Costumer
- "I Borg" – Set Costumer (uncredited)
- "The Next Phase" – Key Costumer
- "Realm Of Fear" – Key Costumer (Season 6)
- DS9:
- "Emissary" (with Patty Borggrebe-Taylor, Phyllis Corcoran-Woods, and Maurice Palinski)
- "Past Prologue" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "Captive Pursuit" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "Dax" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "Move Along Home" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "Vortex" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "The Storyteller" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "If Wishes Were Horses" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "Dramatis Personae" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "In the Hands of the Prophets" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "The Homecoming" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "The Siege" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Cardassians" (with Maurice Palinski)
- "Rules of Acquisition" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Second Sight" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Rivals" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Armageddon Game" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Paradise" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Playing God" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Blood Oath" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "The Maquis, Part II" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Crossover" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Tribunal" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Second Skin" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Civil Defense" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Defiant" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Past Tense, Part I" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Life Support" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Destiny" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Visionary" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Improbable Cause" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "The Die is Cast" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Family Business" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "The Adversary" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "The Way of the Warrior" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Hippocratic Oath" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Rejoined" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Starship Down" (with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods)
- "Our Man Bashir" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Paradise Lost" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Return to Grace" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Bar Association" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Rules of Engagement" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Shattered Mirror" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "For the Cause" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "To the Death" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Broken Link" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Apocalypse Rising" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Trials and Tribble-ations" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "The Ascent" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "The Darkness and the Light" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "For the Uniform" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "By Inferno's Light" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "A Simple Investigation" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Ties of Blood and Water" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Soldiers of the Empire" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "Blaze of Glory" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "In the Cards" (with Mary Ellen Bosché)
- "A Time to Stand" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Rocks and Shoals" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Favor the Bold" (with Michael Chapman)
- "You Are Cordially Invited" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Statistical Probabilities" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Waltz" (with Michael Chapman)
- "One Little Ship" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Honor Among Thieves" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" (with Michael Chapman)
- "In the Pale Moonlight" (with Michael Chapman)
- "The Reckoning" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Profit and Lace" (with Michael Chapman)
- "The Sound of Her Voice" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Image in the Sand" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Afterimage" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Chrysalis" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Once More Unto the Breach" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Covenant" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Prodigal Daughter" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Field of Fire" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Penumbra" (with Michael Chapman)
- "Strange Bedfellows" (with Michael Chapman)
- "When It Rains..." (with Michael Chapman)
- "Extreme Measures" (with Michael Chapman)
- "What You Leave Behind" (with Michael Chapman, Phyllis Corcoran-Woods, and Cleo Mannell)