: The first two seasons are considered to have the worst DVD source quality, featuring color distortions on external station shots and poor green-screen detail.
For decades, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has lived in a visual purgatory. Unlike The Next Generation , which received a lavish (if arduous) manual HD remaster, DS9—along with Voyager —remained trapped in the standard-definition, interlaced video era. Shot on 35mm film but edited on standard-definition videotape, a true remaster would require reassembling every episode from scratch. The cost? Prohibitively high. star trek deep space 9 s01 ai upscale 4k 2020