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The documentary What We Left Behind (2019) provided a glimpse of what a studio-led 4K remaster could look like by rescanning specific film sequences. Fan projects in 2020 used these professionally remastered clips as a "base" to further upscale to 4K, proving that AI could achieve sharp results with both live-action and CGI.
Paramount/CBS (at the time) did nothing to take it down. Why? For the same reason they didn’t remaster the show: money. Shutting down a niche fans project would generate bad press and highlight the studio’s own failure to deliver a HD product. Meanwhile, the AI upscale acted as free advertising; fans who watched the 4K fan version often went on to buy official DS9 merchandise or subscribe to Paramount+ (where the SD version still lives). star trek deep space 9 s01 ai upscale 4k 2020
The most sought-after versions of this upscale were encoded in to manage file sizes, often ranging from 2GB to 6GB per episode. The documentary What We Left Behind (2019) provided