Hey maybe this could be what’s displayed over on /r/startrek while it is down.
hahahah yes pleasee
And now I have the Pearl Jam song stuck in my head. Thanks.
Where my friends of DeSoto at?
Best boss I ever had!
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.
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!”
I think it came about during the DS9 Era, don’t exactly recall though.
It’s from a neat Trek podcast called Greatest Generation, highly recommend checking it out!
Time to create a GreatestGen/Trek community!
Oh man, we definitely need a Greatest Trek instance. Maybe a mod of speshial conshennce can make one for B&A to drop into.
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.
Make it so.
I was fumbling around Lemmy instances looking for a “home base”, frustrated when I couldn’t find anything I liked. Then I found this one posted on the Lemmy subreddit and was immediately excited!
Hit it!
I’m in the same boat! None of the big, general-purpose instances had quite what I was looking for. A dedicated one for Star Trek makes me feel like I’m on-school Star Trek forums again, which is the way to (boldly) go.
You are welcome!
Man I just love the content that is growing every day in these new forums … nice work guys … subscribed and will come back again and again.
I feel like we’ve rebelled against old alliances and we are restarting again in some far off outpost with minimal supplies but plenty of hope and enthusiasm.
I’ve cut my ties and I’m staying on this outpost with you all.
And I am so happy to see that. I joined up yesterday
Any chance r/startrekmemes is also coming over here?
We expect to expand our communities as we gain more users, so there likely will be an equivalent space on here eventually. In the mean time, though, I encourage you to meme it up on /c/risa!
They should have named it startrek.federation
Not a valid TLD sadly
We’ve had one Federation, yes. What about second.federation?
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To boldly go
Hello, you’re posting in it 😄
@TeaHands
Really the only response to my stupidityOK so im confused about this, I thought the idea of the fediverse is that people could have viewed or posted here from both mastodon or lemmy or kbin based apps?
Free from the Ferengi’s profiteering schemes
I’m replying to a mastodon post, from a separate lemmy instance federated with startrek.website.
I’m living in the future.
What is this, the Mycelium Network?!
no sir. this is the federation.
I thought it was a Wendy’s.
I thought we were the borg
DON’T PROVOKE THE BORG
“I learned it by watching you!” 😭
No, that’s the Delta Quadrant.
No, this is Patrick.
Instructions unclear, starship stuck in wormhole.
I’m replying to your post on a lemmy instance federated with startrek.website, from another lemmy instance federated with lemmy.world.
Things get mighty confusing, but fun in their own ways.
EDIT: Also didn’t realise that this was a Mastodon post, but that would explain why some of the comments have a bit of unusual formatting.
