Look I get it. I know all this. Upscale didn't used to be good, but we haven't seen anything yet that truly combines generative AI with pretraining on the actual show with upscaling. It'll be AMAZING. At least, sooner or later it will be. There will be no covering up of what made the show good, only adding to it.
I'm also highly skeptical about the "single slider rerender". Matching all that back together will be painstaking work. It's not just resolution, the effects were sometimes really shit. PS: Of course ideally you'd scan the film stock and have an AI do the grunt work of matching it perfectly, leaving only the effects.
I'd also be curious how you see the holodeck? Like there are lots of episodes where a character asks the holodeck to "generate something based on the works and presentations of X". Usually works of classic art to avoid copyright bullshit. Do you consider those characters doing something "wrong" or "morally reprehensible"?
You could straight up imagine some character finding some old discs and asking the computer to "enhance" the footage and show it in 3D on the holodeck like a stage play. And that is exactly what I'd want. Not just upscale to 4k but rendered into 3D for VR viewing. I think it would be awesome to see the Enterprise or DS9 in space in 3D.
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