@Animaxx
Wonderful story! A trekkie-family-tradition! And: what an obligation!
I know this kind of feeling very well: The strong wish to take part, help, somehow in something you really love.

Joel Hruska said:
The problem is DS9 itself. There’s a reason I didn’t use Emissary (1x01) to show off my work. Early Deep Space 9 does not respond to upscaling nearly as well as later DS9 does. It’s not as clear. It’s not as sharp. It makes early greenscreen effects look really fake, and the footage can almost look as though it’s being spliced in from VHS. There’s moire on everything, the models are dull, and it scarcely looks like an upgrade. Some of that is baked right into the source and looks bad there (like the early holodeck scene), but gets magnified by the upscaler. But the show looks bad – really bad – on DVD.

Yes, I know that. I recently watched it (about two months ago the first episode). They seem to have improved scanning equipment through the years… Problems are Rainbowing (see Borg-cube), Ringing (I guess not because of not-so-well DVD-encoding, but somehow compressed storage in the past, quite common - see captions after upscaling), rests of aliasing (same reason, some of the past storage compression algorithms did not 100% take respect of interlacing), artefacts of not-so-well encoded film-grain, a. s. o.
Maybe I can find some time next week for this, I see some possibilities.