I support the decision to revisit TNG. Longtime FOD here, and listening to new episodes of this very comfy content at a different stage of my life has been… reassuring, I guess. Grounding, maybe?

If I could give 47 stars I would. This is the greatest men’s health game show about Star Trek I could ever hope for, and they’re about to grow a beard! I’m sure you know what that means. But if you don’t, subscribe!

Sometimes when I rewatch TGN I notice a conspicuous amount of knuck and I have no one to talk to about it because my spouse and friends aren’t nerds who watch Star Trek. So I just feel like a nerdy pervert. But then I found this show. And they ALWAYS notice the knuck. Listening to this show is like watching TNG with your most filthy minded - and yet least problematic -friend.

Sexual politics without historical perspective make for a dull experience.

I only started watching Trek as an adult, and never thought it would be for me. This podcast convinced me it was worth a shot after giving up on TNG’s first season a couple of times. I’m so glad I stuck with it, because Trek and Greatest Gen have brought me so much joy. Trek is a bright spot of utopia in a world that often feels dystopian, a reminder that we can dream a better world even when the present feels bleak.

This pod is a banger. I work blue collar and during a rough day of parking lot heat or hours of tedious prep seeking perfection, they make me laugh and stay positive. New fan and quite enjoying the takes guys!

Bring it back, and I’ll support both! Im so happy to see you guys taking THIS show independent, and now it’s time to call up John and get the other band back together. I NEED to hear you guys review Seven Samurai. ❤️

Long-time viewer, finally figured out how to leave a review. Go-to comfort podcast, it’s been great getting to parasocially hang. As many have said, this podcast has helped through some tough times, thanks for taking the chance on making it. Thrilled you decided to revisit TNG.

I’ve been injecting this extremely well produced dick and fart Star Trek/Men’s Health podcast into my earholes for a decade. It’s so good I’ve gone through it twice! As Adam and Ben say, it’s about the hang. Trek fan or no, give it a chance and tell me with a straight face you didn’t think it was funny and entertaining - I dare you! Thanks B&A, here’s to another 10!

A surprisingly thoughtful exploration of Trek for a show ostensibly about poking fun at the ridiculous parts of the series(s). Now is the ideal time to start if you haven’t listened. They are so committed to the bits that they actually did start over from the beginning to go through TNG once again.

To anyone looking for the best Star Trek podcast in the galaxy, look no further. Ben and Adam pilot their way through the Star Trek catalog with humor, grace, and very tasteful dick and fart jokes while looking for a writer for new Trek to blow them out of an airlock. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen until next year at least. FOD‘s forever!

Loved the show for years and was very happy to throw a scarf Ben and Adam’s way when they became independent. It feels wild to say it because I thought it would be the standard, but these guys are of the few that actually mean it when they say their paid subscriber feed is ad-free. Now back to enjoying my all-knuck-no-filler pod.

In March of last year, I decided to pair a release order watch through of all Trek everywhere with some Star Trek podcasts I'd been wanting to try for years. Fast forward to a year ago, and only The Greatest Generation remained (after a brief prelude where I watched every episode of TOS, TAS, and the movies that precede TNG). Smash cut to January of this year, and I had finished every episode of "classic" Trek, was eagerly waiting for TGG to finish its coverage of Enterprise, and was excited to move on to Nü Trek and watch those shows for the first time in my life. Star wipe to today, and I'm 60 episodes and a movie away from having seen all the Trek that currently (officially) exists in this world, and 256 episodes into Greatest Trek's 377. I'm also riotously celebrating TGG's circle back to TNG to craft brave new riffs informed by 10 years of "wisdom". All of this to say that Ben and Adam have crafted some of the finest pod that's fit to view this side of the Delta Quadrant, and I couldn't imagine a better companion piece of media to accompany my journey through 60 years of incredible programming. Here's to another 10 year mission to seek out new knuck and new Shimodas; to kind of embarrassedly go where no Pod has gone before!

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This show is so funny. Especially the Nth degree special episodes. Some of my favorites!

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This podcast is exactly what it claims to be. If you are looking for a sober analysis of Stark Trek, go elsewhere. If you want to take a trip back to the heydays of bad hair and moose knuckles, please subscribe. Be sure to start at the beginning to get all the inside jokes.

Guys if you see this, I heard you talking about cleaning your roof gutters. Please don’t climb up there with a ladder, get a wet/dry shopvac with a gutter cleaning attachment, you can do like 30 ft high gutters from the ground. Don’t risk an unnecessary fall injury/death 👍

This podcast is a war crime (complimentary)

Did you ever wonder why you’ve never wondered which chipmunk is the horny one? Is it Alvin? Do you also love Star Trek and being in on inside jokes? Then you might like the often clever and always insightful humor of Greatest Gen. Ben and Adam have a background in film production and a background in being a little bit ashamed of loving Trek. They use both to breathe new life into a series you’ve maybe seen 10 times or maybe never got hooked on when it originally aired.

I really love this podcast. The inside jokes and production insights make other podcasts look like the alien trash of the galaxy. Ben and Adam, what would be your dream project to show run if big Rod ever gave you the keys to a new Trek series?

I have been listening to The Greatest Generation for a while. Now when I watch an old episode of Trek, either encountered out in the wild or if I put it on streaming, I also go back and re listen to the corresponding Greatest Gen episode. The rare scenario where double dipping is allowed. Same goes for the greatest trek.

you come for the star trek that doesn’t take itself too seriously, you stay for the chemistry of ben and adam whose charisma works across genres - from trek to beg to baywatch to gremlins to the most gastrointestinally-distressing genre: cheesecake factory

A critical re-watch of Star Trek from a knuck-and-hog-focused perspective. Forever will change how you watch Trek, for better and worse.

I started listening to this podcast a couple years ago after having never listened to a podcast before in my life. These guys are hilarious and are single-handedly responsible for me listening to any podcasts at all. Now they are my constant companions through earbuds while doing chores and taking care of my kids. Unfortunately I’ll laugh out of nowhere and now my kids think their nonsensical jokes are hilarious.

See title. Never reviewed a podcast before but had to for this one. Countless hours of company and laughter enclosed!

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They really love trek, but not in weird toxic way. Funny stuff.

…if your Star Trek character impressions aren’t actually just bad impressions of Ben & Adam’s bad impressions. How many times have I imitated their Janeway whisper while doing a noisy home chore? Broken out a Kevin Uxbridge in polite company? Seriously, 80% of my Trek rewatches on Paramount+ are because of these two. Hilarious takes, insightful commentary, and the best bits. And much like Trek, somehow the bad stuff is somehow entertaining, too? 🤷🏼‍♂️🤣❤️🖖🏻

These guys are hilarious. I’m ded

Rewatching Voyager and reading way too much into Chakotay saying, “Sounds good” instead of what the pod has taught me is his usual catch phrase, wondering if this is what my life has come to. Why not “great,” Chakotay?

Ben and Adam, two devoted fans who do a fantastic job of reviewing and examining Star Trek in all its media. This podcast is my weekly treat to myself that I always look forward to. I’ve been listening from the beginning, I’ve been to live shows and am the proud owner of some TGG swag. Keep up the great work!

Like the Star Trek industrial complex itself, TGG just keeps on giving. Whether it’s a ‘Measure of a Man’ or a ‘Up the Long Ladder’, I’m here for it.

Picard-Wesley fanfic, bashir golden shower, and rope jokes not-with-standing, this show is great and the host are kind and funny! Kaplah!

Not sure if the “jokes” are getting worse or I’m getting old but I can’t listen anymore. Two guys who think it “cool” to get drunk and say horrible things under the guise of “doing a bit”. If that’s for you, have fun..I’m out I tried again hoping maybe they grew up just a little bit. I got about 10 minutes in and I realized they had gotten worse. I can think of multiple “ jokes” that are worse than anything bean dad did. Why haven’t these guys been “ cancelled” and piled on by the internet like their “friend” was? I’ll never know…..

No other Star Trek podcast has prompted me to seek out and watch a forgotten hobo killing medical thriller starring Gene Hackman and Hugh Grant. Best podcast around if you like hosts who will reference an obscure movie so many times you’ll eventually go “Alright! FINE! Where can I rent it??”

They got these pretzels…….$4 ??!

Imagine, if you will, a courtroom where sarcasm is admissible as evidence, wit is required by law, and the judge is wearing a Starfleet uniform—but ironically. That’s The Greatest Generation. It’s not so much a Star Trek podcast as it is a self-aware improv trial where the defendants are Gene Roddenberry’s legacy and the hosts’ own sense of decency. Benjamin R. Harrison and Adam Pranica—if those names sound made up, it’s because they feel engineered in a sarcasm lab—don’t so much discuss Star Trek as weaponize it. Their humor is fast, biting, and delivered with the casual precision of a character who’s had five double espressos and one moral awakening before 9 a.m. And their scorbic retorts? Oh, they don’t just roast bad episodes. They reduce them to subatomic snark. There’s something comforting about two men who love Star Trek just enough to mock it relentlessly, and who mock each other just enough to prove they love each other, platonically, with all the affection of two emotionally constipated Vulcans on shore leave. In a world where fandoms teeter between blind reverence and joyless cynicism, The Greatest Generation dares to ask the question: What if we replaced nostalgia with neurosis, and reverence with roast comedy? And what if that’s exactly what Star Trek needs? It’s a podcast for people who love Trek, hate themselves just a little, and know that behind every sarcastic sigh is a profound respect for warp cores, Picard speeches, and the quiet tragedy of a man named Reginald Barclay. Do yourself a favor: subscribe. Unless you’re too busy being offended by a fart sound during a plot summary of “The Inner Light.” In which case, you’ve already lost this courtroom.

They are so casually hilarious that you almost forget you’re listening to a Star Trek review show.

Voyager fan? This is the show for you! Listening from Saudi Arabia , thanks for the laughs guys!

Tremendous

Goes down smooth and creamy. Yum yum!

I once met these guys at a show and had an extremely awkward exchange with Adam, but I nevertheless enjoy their pod.

I love everything about this podcast the pacing is Perfect I started listening after this years pod crawl I heard about this pod while listening to Matt and Andy on STTNC. At this very moment I am listening to S5E15 The Polar Region.

Great Trek show, for sure, but perhaps best serves as direct evidence that straight white boys might not be so bad after all. Good for them!

I tuned into Greatest Generation as part of the Pod Crawl, and rewound back to the beginning of the series right away. Adam and Ben are my age, so not only the lens through which we first watched TNG but also the surrounding pop culture references they toss out are exactly my jam. The show's great, and I've started donating scarves to Max Fun (this after listening to Judge John Hodgman for years). Middle of season 4, they comment about people feeling low about politics (after the 2016 election), and alas it echoes exactly now why I'm mainlining Greatest Gen now and not my usual array of Slate and NPR podcasts - the humor and escape from this embarrassing program is exactly what I need. I look forward to catching up to Greatest Trek.

The Trek is good (except when they talk about Dr Bashir—that running bit really isn’t funny) but the example Ben and Adam set for building a warm, lasting friendship is actually the best part.

Irreverent. Silly. Touching. These are just some of the ways I would describe the greatest generation podcast. I’ve been listening since the third episode and it’s consistently one of my favorite podcasts of all time.

I’ve been with this from the start, it’s one of the only pods I listen to, and I’ve attended several live shows. There is no better way to revisit the generational embarrassment of Trek-dom then in the company of Ben & Adam.

As a lover of all things Trek, this show brings me absolute guilt-free joy. Ben and Adam talk about my favorite chunk of media in totally unpretentious and hilarious ways. One of the rare podcasts that gets better with a second listen -inside jokes galore. Nontoxic, genuinely insightful, FUNNY, uplifting. Warning buoy fired!