Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "The Fast Approaching Death of Star Trek" video.

  1. If I recall, the original footage of TNG was shot at higher quality over DS9, also, TNG was the more popular show and had less work needed when it comes to remastering the special effects. DS9 on the other hand was shot at lower quality and had far more special effects going on, especially during the war, the cost to remaster that would be far higher and DS9 wasn't as popular as TNG was, but eventually all shows will get remastered as A.I. tech continues to advanced to make it easier to do. Don't get me wrong, I like DS9 as a show, but it wasn't as popular as TNG, and being as the TNG remaster didn't sell that great, there were little incentive to remaster all the other shows as TNG was the most popular of the classic Treks, especially as the shows after TNG likely would cost more to remaster then TNG did, mainly because specially effects went up in leaps and bounds in the 90's and were being used far more than we saw in TNG.
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  2. Star Trek started to go into decline with the end of TNG and during the run of DS9, you only have to look at the viewing figures and popularity at the time to see that Star Trek was going in decline, hence why DS9 and VOY had to do some drastic changes through the run of those shows to try and boost viewing figures. When TNG ended, everyone was surprised because Star Trek was at the height of its popularity then, and don't get me wrong, I love DS9, but I can see that the tone of Star Trek changed, it's darker, more moody and more war like, which went against everything that Star Trek is all about, a more uplifting future, a bright future where humanity comes together to build a better future and explores space together, that vision got lost through DS9 and the shows and movies afterwords, and it's been downhill ever since. Will they ever get back to the true vision of what made Star Trek great in the first place? I doubt it, if it was going to happen, it likely would have done by now, but the studios behind Star Trek seem tone-deaf to the fans and have been killing Star Trek ever since, heck, even the last 2 episodes of Star Trek Picard Series 3 on the Enterprised ship, they couldn't help themselves but to make the ship lighting look dark and moody and yet that was the highlight of the show but yet they are trying to mess it up with darkening the lights, and someday these studios will realise that most of us will want to live in a future that's well lit, peaceful and a bright future, but seriously, when they can't even get the lighting right on the Enterprised ship when they already have a reference to it on TNG, what hope is there for the future of Star Trek when such basic things they keep messing up. All I can say is roll on the advancement of A.I. that eventually we could make our own episodes, so like you could feed it every TNG episode and have the A.I. create new ones, maybe going on the better episodes you like, this isn't possible yet but with how A.I. is improving, it could become a real thing over the coming decades, then, who cares what the studios want to do, we'll just make our own shows and bypass them as they are so disconnected from the fans.
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