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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where my friends of DeSoto at?

[โ€“] ToddyB 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Time to create a GreatestGen/Trek community!

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

r/greatestgen is still up and there's a thread from 4 days ago from the FoD Mastodon admin about setting up an FoD Lemmy. I pointed that OP here but it wouldn't be official Uxbridge-Shimoda social media unless its the Card Daddy as admin.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh man, we definitely need a Greatest Trek instance. Maybe a mod of speshial conshennce can make one for B&A to drop into.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Best boss I ever had!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Next on this old starship, we building a forum.

Also, where did the name friends of DeSoto come from? I've listened for years and feel like a missed a random reference.

[โ€“] Soupbreaker 3 points 1 year ago

It's from the early days of Greatest Gen, and references Captain DeSoto of the USS Hood (NCC-1703). DeSoto and the Hood made several appearances in TNG, and Ben and Adam leaned into his chill vibes, theorizing that the Hood would be a great place to work.

It's also an allusion to the phrase Friend of Dorothy, an older euphemism for LGBT people.

I think it was originally jokingly conceived as a sort of passphrase or shibboleth for fans of the pod to identify each other without revealing their embarrassing enthusiasm to outsiders, e.g.

Q: "Are you a friend of DeSoto?"

A: "Best boss I ever had!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's from a neat Trek podcast called Greatest Generation, highly recommend checking it out!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it came about during the DS9 Era, don't exactly recall though.