Have you watched the AI Upscale of Season 1? Share your thoughts—does the wormhole look better as a hallucinated AI dream, or are you holding out for Paramount?

The most immediate difference is the removal of the "blur." Characters' faces (and specifically the intricate Bajoran and Cardassian makeup) look much clearer. You can see textures in the uniforms and the station walls that were previously lost in the compression of the original broadcast and DVD releases.

, DS9 was left behind because its visual effects were finished on standard-definition (SD) videotape rather than film. Remastering it officially would require rebuilding every space battle and phaser blast from scratch, a project estimated to cost over $20 million The 2020 Breakthrough: Project Defiant