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* The [[Star Trek Novel Verse]] tends to avert this, for all that the TV series tended to play it straight. For example, the novel ''[[A Singular Destiny]]'' features a character owning a large collection of novels and comics (or equivalent) from Klingon popular culture - most of these had been introduced in earlier novels, only to be collected together here for [[Continuity Porn]]. In the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]], a popular joke involves the crew of ''Defiant'' all reading their way through a melodramatic Klingon novel, and the same series introduced a Bajoran children's educational series, ''The Adventures of Lin Marna''. Meanwhile, in ''[[Star Trek: Klingon Empire]]'' mention is frequently made of the [[Narm Charm]] found in the politically-charged animated series "Battlecruiser Vengeance". In one novel, Ezri Dax is distracted by her memories of a Trill nursery rhyme.
* Despite taking place either on Earth or in a space military setting, the main ''[[Animorphs]]'' series manages to avert the trope, at least for the Andalites. In internal monologues Ax mentions musical forms from his homeworld (and that he hates Earth's), and that people who can [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|morph]] in creative ways (making themselves into [[Winged Humanoid]]s when morphing birds and so on) are bona fide performance artists.
* In [[Technic History]] much of the series is centered on the planet Avalon which is home to a joint colony of humans and eagle-like Ythrian aliens. Most of what we see Ythrians doing among themselves is rather poetic looked at from the outside. But then just being an intelligent flying creature is rather poetic. On the other hand Ythrians often participate rather incongruously in human activities such as going to bars.
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