American television editor who worked on The Next Generation from its first season and directed two of its episodes, Transfigurations and Devil's Due.
Tom Benko was among the original editors of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987 and cut episodes throughout the show's run.
He was one of the first of the post-production staff to be allowed to direct, making his debut with the third-season episode Transfigurations, about an amnesiac alien on the verge of evolving into a being of energy.
He directed again the following year with Devil's Due, in which Picard exposes a con artist posing as the devil figure Ardra, and later edited for Deep Space Nine and Voyager.