Star Trek: DS9 - massive starship battle! HQ

[astralphoenix]

has anyone noticed how in all sci-fi shows/movies, the toughness of ships always seems to go down exponentially with increasing fleet size?

Wrath of Khan / Nemesis - a fight between two ships seems to last about 14 hours

DS9:SoA - 150 ships destroyed on both sides in the first 30 seconds

[criixt]

FOR CARDASSIA!! oh wait their ships barely moved

[gettingcreative76]

0:50 Eat Galaxy Class mofos :-)

[Moremooremore]

@gettingcreative76 Eat Galaxy Class Firepower mofos

[80smusicfanNO1]

Your attempt to upscale the original video made this look really muddy and blurry- particularly the ship textures.

[AeronPeryton]

@80smusicfanNO1 That's probably not his fault. This was one of the first all-CG sequences in DS9 and even on SD TVs it was obvious that they used very low-poly models.

[jeffreyalvarez2002]

0:48 Galaxy Class Starships Tally Ho!

[AeronPeryton]

@jeffreyalvarez2002 "I do say good sir, it's a right good day to go Cardy hunting." "Why yes, indeed it is." "Let's not tarry then." "Righto!"

[xpcode22]

Where are their shields???



[Holammer]

I remember how gobsmacked I was the first time I saw this on VHS and it's awesome how it still looks good enough after all these years.

[davidt0504]

where are the shields? one shot and the ships are getting destroyed

[Cyke101]

@davidt0504 Two things: 1. Starfleet had to create shields to fight the Dominion -- before the war, Starfleet shields were useless, but at the end of S5 the Dominion were caught by surprise. It could be that skintight shields (like in TOS, VI, and XI) are part of that solution. 2. We're only seeing clips of the battle here. The episode basically has this battle being drawn out for hours, so many ships that we see getting shot down towards the end actually lasted awhile.

[mojojojo511]

at 0.45 can anyone hear a tie fighter??

[NickofTroy]

Poor redshirt Steamrunners :(

[123WelshDan321]

Wow this is ace!

[Badboy21thekiller]

WOw

[MegaTitanicboy]

FIVE Galaxy class ships in the same frame 0:16 and at 0:49 it looks like all of the galaxy class ships are going for that one cardassian ship!

[losigler]

@MegaTitanicboy That boy got a smackdown

[Alchemy5150]

I like how in these giant DS9 battles, shields just go out the window. I mean, shields? Who needs those

[philialle4supra]

They need the millenium falcon to finish this more quickly...

[8385953]

EPIC!

[ssssroryssss2]

Personally I prefer the original DVD picture because this clip is a little too sharp and bright, it makes this CGI ships more "CGI" looking. Not a bad effort though. I just wish that Paramount would rescan the original 35mm film (which is higher than HD quality) for TNG, DS9 and TOS. Paramount, if you're going to do this then PLEASE DON'T USE CGI SHIPS!! CGI is no substitute for real models!

[Bactchan]

@ssssroryssss2 The problem with using physical minature models is getting them to do all the things that these CG ships do in terms of combat and astrobatics. Without CG, the battles in DS9 and later would have been a logistical nightmare if not outright impossible to shoot.

[ssssroryssss2]

@Bactchan I do see what you mean. I was referring to Paramount replacing footage of ships in TOS with CGI for the HD release. I hope when they turn TNG into HD, they don't use more CGI than when it was originally aired.

[bernard9782]

My compliment on the improvement of this video, i'm glad there were proper battles eventually other than against single borg cubes, which you saw barely any of it like in sector 001 and wolf 359

[LostInTimeAndSpace9]

Thank you so much for this awesome quality. Wish I had this years ago (as reference).

[ThotPran]

Damn this HQ quality is far far better than the DVD version, if only Paramount would actually spend some money of properly remastering TOS, TNG and DS9 to this quality!

[StarTrekMarco]

I like it how the Defiant is making a Runabout-Style sound at the very end of the Video :D

[schwarzfalk]

I believe every1forgot to raise their shields

didn't know DS9 had such a tight SFX budget :/

[zechreich]

wow really nice video quality...

[calgarymikey27]

Wow the quality of this is better than the dvd release. How did you do this!!????

[josiahsuarez]

@calgarymikey27

I used a program called vReveal which can convert SD video into HD with a variety of enhancements. then I ran the output from vReveal through the VirtualDub filters Auto Levels->warp resize->MSU Smart Sharpen->2:1 reduction high quality. the source I used was just a mediocre quality internet clip (the same clip that I originally posted and that this was a "Video Response" to) so it would have come out even better working directly from the DVDs.

[8487721]

@josiahsuarez Wow, Crazy impressive, wonder how it works... Someone needs to let you loose on the DVD versions...

[priyonjoni]

@josiahsuarez can you do a tutorial for this?

[kp4u2nv]

@josiahsuarez - You did a great job. Thumbs Up (Literally)

[duodsg]

The only question I have is...where in the heck did you get an HD version of this? None of Star Trek except the recent films and Enterprise were filmed in this quality.

In any case, thank you! They stopped showing DS9 and VOY years ago so I never got to watch the dominion war or anything. This makes up for it!

[MrLAYER2009]

at the beginning i count at least 4 ships that look like the enterprise...i thought it was the only one of its kind??? or are some others probably built for defensive purposes?

[mysterio5005]

@MrLAYER2009 The Enterprise is a Galaxy Class vessel, there are others, including some we see during TNG.

[castlecolten]

Outstanding!!!