Hope there's no bumps in the road with this. Being made by the same people who did the Spock/Nimoy documentary makes me even more excited (first because it was great, but secondly because it means this might end up on Netflix with any luck).
Got mixed up with when it was originally put up, because as they tweeted earlier, after only ONE DAY, the project has almost met its target (99% as of time of writing basically).
But yeah, there's no interest in Deep Space Nine, black sheep of the family, etc...
I always felt that DS9 was the black sheep of the family because of its concept; a static space station instead of a ship, boldly waiting for aliens to come to it rather than boldly going to seek out new life, and what eventually developed into an almighty war story that involved religion... it was so far from Roddenberry's take on Star Trek but absolutely fantastic for it.
I do wonder though had DS9 been given some breathing room with Voyager starting after it had finished rather than starting during its run. There's a huge case here to be made that the only reason Star Trek's ratings began declining is that there was too much Star Trek on the TV. It would of been nice had the studio understood that these shows needed a year apart from one another to maintain the popularity.
The Love of Spock was great so really looking forward to this one!
9 days remaining, it's at $410,000, and they've revealed the final stretch goal of $500,000: Remastered HD footage!
Seriously, they'll have Doug Drexler himself working on this:
I really am getting the impression that the stars seem to be aligning for this thing, unbelievable.
Unbelievable. I wonder what this'll do for the chances of getting a handful of episodes remastered (as suggested by Drexler - make the fans happy by offering a few of the best episodes fully remastered)?
What about a subscription service? Even get Eaglemoss to facilitate it?
subscribe to receive each season of DS9 restored/remastered on Blu-Ray/4K with a part-works magazine showing how they've been able to take the show and remaster it for Blu Ray. you could feature interviews from the cast and crew too.
Could include this very film as a special issue.
£49.99 every two months over 14 months (leading onto Voyager if sales are good.
To be honest, I think that after seeing this documentary raise half a million dollars purely from the fans, I'd be content to play wait and see in regards to what Netflix (or CBS) decide to do over the next few years.
I love DS9 more than any other show, but £49.99 every two months isn't something I'd even want to find out about, let alone subscribe to. Trying to squeeze the money out of the fans by charging around $100 for one season isn't going to work either, and is why TNG didn't sell as well as expected.
No, I agree with Doug Drexler on this - let them do what they initially did with TNG: Release a set (or two) of three remastered episodes. If it sells well, maybe think about going for some more (alone or in partnership with Netflix). If it doesn't sell well, not much money will have been lost, and the hardcore fans (like me) will at least have been given a small taste of seeing it in HD. Having The Way of the Warrior (for example) alone be fully remastered would honestly be really satisfying to me (if the rest of the series was to never be done).
The one thing I'm honestly nervous about now in regards to any DS9 remastering, is that the CG files will just be upped in resolution, resulting in something only slightly better than this:
As opposed to this work of art from theIRML:
I wish they'd try an open source way of doing it, but that'll never happen (especially with Moonves in charge).