We’re only weeks away now from the long-awaited arrival of What We Left Behind, the fan-funded Star Trek: Deep Space Nine retrospective documentary, and today the first trailer for the film has beamed down — with a ton of brand-new high-definition DS9 footage!

Debuting through IGN today, the trailer for What We Left Behind is loaded with never-before-seen remastered Deep Space Nine episodic footage, including looks at moments from Emissary, The Siege of AR-558, Change of Heart, Shadows and Symbols, The Wire, Wrongs Darker than Death or Night, and more — and interviews with the cast and crew (including archival contributions from Avery Brooks, who declined to participate the film).

The documentary’s being distributed via digital streaming to campaign backers on April 25, the product team announced yesterday, ahead of the May 13 theatrical screenings — and details on DVD and Blu-ray release are set to come next month after the Fathom Events showing.

We also get our first glimpse of the upcoming “Season 8” animated episode concept, developed by some of the original writers of the series — which looks to include older versions of our favorite DS9 characters (including Starfleet officer Molly O’Brien?) and a shrine to the Bajoran Orbs right on the station Promenade.

While we’ll be bringing you some video comparisons of this new footage soon enough, here’s a look at some of the upgraded picture from the old Deep Space Nine DVDs.

Interestingly, the trailer also contains a few snippets of footage which appear to NOT be from the as-broadcast cuts of certain episodes, including an alternate angle on the crew in Vic’s Lounge from the “The Way You Look Tonight” performance at the end of “What You Leave Behind,” an unused take of Kira in Quark’s from “Rapture,” and more.

Stay tuned for lots more coverage on the What We Left Behind documentary in the coming days — and share your thoughts at this first look at Deep Space Nine in HD in the comments below!