No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture: Difference between revisions

* 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.

* In ''[[The Keltiad]]'' by Patricia Kennealy, the descendants of the Atlantean Celts who had migrated to another planet have no discernible pop culture or even mass media despite their futuristic technology. The Kelts' culture is stuck in a [[Mary Suetopia|heavily idealized pre-Christian iron age]] and party entertainment consists of someone playing traditional songs on the traditional harp in a way that apparently hasn't changed for thousands of years.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** Subverted even further in the prequel series ''[[Caprica]]'', where various colonial subcultures (V-World, the Ha'la'tha, the Monotheists) were shown in great detail. 58 years before before the Fall, Caprican society was like our world now but on hyperdrive. Holobands were a good example of a realistic treatment of a fictional commercial application of [[Cyberspace|virtual reality]], though not without their [[Culture Police|critics]].

* The Minbari in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' nearly count as a straight example, but that's because outside of the Religious Caste, we know nothing about Minbari culture. However, most of the Minbari we got to know were either Religious or Warrior Caste, so the largely unseen Worker Caste may have their own separate cultural roots. Also, Minbari humor (not specifically Religious caste humor) is said to be based around failure to attain spiritual enlightenment.