There's also a discussion group you're free to join. Episodes will be uploaded as I compress them at my own pace, about 1GB per episode, both original and remastered versions (with appropriate audio tracks), and subtitles included in the file (you will have to open the files in another app that supports subtitles).
My goal is to eventually have all of TOS, TAS, TNG, VOY, DS9, and ENT up along with all the films.
Did I forget to mention I'll also be uploading special features at the end of each season? Because I'll be uploading special features at the end of each season.
As of April 2, 2024, all content promised has been uploaded and I consider the archive complete.
Yesterday I finished upload Voyager Season 7 and its special features. That marks the last of the "classic" Star Trek series uploads. Whether one would consider Enterprise a part of "classic" Trek is highly debatable and very dependent on whether you like Enterprise or not. Though it was before the Abrams films drew a clear line in the sand between old and new.
The main thing I'm really happy about is being done with the DVD stuff. It's bad enough that such important shows are still limited to DVD to this day, but those aren't even good DVDs, and my quality standards are high enough that I'll come and say it - I don't think my encodes of the DVD shows are very good. When I compare them with the MPEG-2 source files, they look slightly more blocky and what little grain is present in the source seems more smoothed out. But I'm pretty sure there was no way to avoid that beyond making the output files absurdly large, like 3GB an episode or something, which I couldn't justify and wouldn't want to subject anyone else to. Don't get me wrong, they're watchable, and when I get to those shows myself I'll probably use my archive for watching episodes on my phone, but if I have the chance to, I'll probably go back to the DVDs when possible... TL;DR DVDs are really difficult to get good quality out of when re-encoding because they're already at the practical limit of what can look acceptable at a given bitrate, any further compression makes them look noticeably bad, always.
Fortunately, from here on out it's all blu-ray sources. ENT was shot for HD and widescreen, so it'll look very modern next to DS9 and VOY, and the generous bitrates of blu-ray mean I can re-encode with almost no loss in visual quality. So, expect Enterprise to start going up soon.
