Here’s Your First, Tiny Glimpse of theDeep Space NineDocumentary’s HD Footage in Action

It ’s short enough that yes , it can almost entirely be captured in gif form . But god , considering how intemperately it is to get , how improbable it is to see more beyond the upcoming Deep Space Nine documentary , and how sporty it is , it ’s not operose to be excited anyway .

A few month agoWhat We Left Behind , the highly anticipatedcrowdfunded documentaryfrom Ira Steven Behr and David Zappone , announced that it was launching a lower-ranking crowdfunding product to digitally remaster every composition of footage from DS9 being used in its runtime ( about 20 minute in total ) into gamy definition for the first time , to avail really celebrate 25 years of the show .

Back then , all we have to see of the suggest remaster was a single shot . Now , as part of this calendar month ’s update on the projection , Behr shared our first literal glimpse of what HD Deep Space Nine actually looks like in legal action . He could n’t have picked a better shot to show off — Sisko and his crew waltzing their way down the promenade in the season 7 episode “ Badda - Bing , Badda - Bang , ” cloak in their fine sixties garb to go bring through holo - crooner Vic Fontaine . It ’s a great shot , and it looks terrific , specially in this comparison between the novel footage and older made byTrekCore :

It ’s exonerated a lot of work and love has gone into remastering this footage from the original film — not only let it be seen in the gamey character potential , but beyond the 4:3 formatting DS9 was in reality presented in on TV , DVD , and now on streaming . But , as Behr notes in this update , although the second stave of funding did mean What We leave behind Behind will now entirely apply remastered HD footage of the series , the process is so blanket and expensive the project will now no longer be finished this class .

But honestly , as Behr also notes , as annoying as that is , it ’s all worth it . Given that theincredibly difficult processof converting DS9 and its sister show Voyager into HD likely stand for that neither show will get a commercially - released remaster in the wayThe Next Generation did , What We Left Behind might be the only meter we ever get to see one of the unspoiled sci - fi shows ever made in all its uninfected , crispy glory . Even if it ’s only footage amounting to the eq of half a regular episode of DS9 , it ’s an chance that Behr clearly did n’t want to miss .

If you still want to donate to What We Left Behind ’s financing of the HD remasters — which is still an ongoing process — you could do sohere .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.