The Greatest Generation (podcast)
weekly comedy Star Trek podcast hosted by Adam Pranica and Benjamin Harrison and distributed online by Maximum Fun
The Greatest Generation is a weekly comedy Star Trek podcast hosted by Adam Pranica and Benjamin Harrison. The show's tagline is "A Star Trek podcast by two guys who are a little bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek Podcast."
The show started on January 25, 2016, and after 30 episodes joined the Maximum Fun network on May 9, 2016. Pranica and Harrison left Maximum Fun in May 2026, with their shows now being distributed by their own company, Uxbridge-Shimoda LLC. The show, as of August 2018, is the highest-rated Star Trek podcast on iTunes.
History and format
From January 2016 to September 2017 the podcast was posted twice-weekly (on Mondays and Wednesdays), with each show reviewing an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (where the podcast gets its name). After completing its run of The Next Generation, the show switched to once a week (Mondays) and moved on to review episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in October 2017, Star Trek: Voyager in February 2021, and Star Trek: Enterprise in May 2024.
The podcast has a number of running gags, such as referring to the listeners as "viewers" and Pranica and Harrison parodying This Old House or impersonating the character of Kevin Uxbridge (played by John Anderson) from The Next Generation episode "The Survivors".
Fans of The Greatest Generation are collectively referred to as the Friends of DeSoto (FODs).
Maron open and review
Every show starts with a Maron Open (named after comedian Marc Maron's podcast, WTF with Marc Maron). There are a few standard opening segments including opening trading cards, reading fan mail, or "Bible Study" (where they open up the show bible and compare the plan for the show to its eventual execution). The opening for episode 152 (which was published on July 10, 2017 and reviewed "Descent, part II") featured Pranica and Harrison interviewing LeVar Burton, who portrayed Lt.
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