Special mention to the picard maneuver and stamets. ❤️

  • Yen@kbin.social
    41·
    1 year ago

    I’m starting to consider watching it because it’s about half of what I see here lol

    Edit : I am enjoying TOS so far, not very far in though.

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 year ago

      If you do decide to take the plunge, much of trek has been remastered, TNG (the series that came after Shatner’s Kirk in the Original Series) for example was redone and got a Blu-ray release.

      Unfortunately this hasn’t been done for others like Deep Space Nine and Voyager, which came after TNG’s run. So the community stepped in to fill this need.

      I’ve gone thru many AI remasters and they have gotten better and better. Utr/Joybell used to be the best for DS9 until somewhat recently, but they have all been a little rough around the edges.

      Enter DS9, Redefined; this project in my opinion is many steps above in terms of quality. The person running that project has finished a remaster for all of DS9 and is currently working on Voyager (almost done with s1 I think). If you click that link, you can check out some of the footage and screenshots they provide (shown with a slider so you can easily compare source with remake)

      Join their discord, and go to the #instructions channel, there is an ftp server for all completed episodes; you don’t need to run the workflows yourself on the source eps yourself

      Enjoy old trek in a more clear and vibrant experience, the first time :)

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately this hasn’t been done for others like Deep Space Nine and Voyager, which came after TNG’s run.

        The reason for that, by the way, is that while TNG was shot on film (from which more detail could be extracted using new technology), DS9 and Voyager were at least partially mastered directly on videotape (especially the CGI effects) and thus there was no higher-quality source to pull from to begin with.

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, there’s a real doughnut-hole in the '90s-2000s between when stuff was old enough to be remastered and stuff was new enough to be digital/HD to begin with. Also, I double-checked, and according to this article what I wrote before wasn’t entirely accurate: apparently the raw footage is on film, but the cut and edited product only exists on video. In theory, they could go back to the raw film and re-do the entire editing process, but it would be cost-prohibitive compared to how much consumer interest in an HD remaster they expect there to be.

            There’s a really good Technology Connections video on the topic, by the way.

            Finally, I’m not sure if “VHS” is strictly accurate. There are other varieties of videotape that might have been used.

      • Metz@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        Have you compared it to other upscales? there is a 720p from icecracked that looks excellent and to my knowledge even beats redefined by a noticeable margin.

      • Sanity_in_Moderation@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        That looks pretty good at first. I am a huge DS9 fan. But upon closer examination with those sliders, it looks like it’s just brighter. That’s it. Am I wrong?

        • Fades@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          It does look minimal and honestly the source files weren’t that bad. It’s just an attempt to upscale the image so it looks better on bigger screens. If you look at previous AI up scales and such there are lots of artifacts and things like that and this project is the cleanest I’d seen, but also things like stars and other small details are more clear or newly visible also

          I like to watch trek on my big tv and the original source files are frustrating in that regard, so for you it may not be the same value and doesn’t make sense to replace an existing collection but for newer watchers may as well start at an improved version

          But bottom line, it is more than that. Here is the workflow to see exactly what is being done: https://discord.com/channels/774116592409378816/774119166931894272/1066138918128468060

      • Tehgingey@lemmy.ca
        41·
        1 year ago

        I’m halfway through the second, and wow am I enjoying it. Some episodes have super profound plots, and other episodes are super heavy. I love Seth McFarlane’s humor too so it’s a really enjoyable watch for me.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
    4·
    1 year ago

    Come on, man. If you’re going to use inclined rocks and talk about Star Trek, at least use the right inclined rocks…

  • happyhippo@feddit.it
    28·
    1 year ago

    Well that’s funny, I’m typing this from the newly installed Connect app, since on Liftoff I couldn’t find an easy way to block an entire community.

    Yeah, I changed the app I use just to finally get rid of Star Trek stuff from my feed.