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* In ''[[Lacuna (Literature)|Lacuna]]'', by and large, encountering anything external to the ship only happens when Liao and the supporting characters are on duty.
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' in all its forms with a few brief references that seem to handwave it, such as occassionally showing a captain arrive shortly after an alarm goes off, as well as having [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Data]] and [[Star Trek: Voyager (TV)|Harry Kim]] make references and seem to be involved in their respective ship's 'night shifts'. (Which raises another question however about people from various planets and species being able to agree on what a day cycle should be in their artificially controlled environment, even if for some reason they needed one.)
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'': Every case in the region is investigated by these guys.
* [[Mass Effect]] and [[Mass Effect 2]]. In the first game, leaving the Normandy will result in the onboard VI announcing "the commanding officer is ashore; XO Pressly has the deck"; on the other hand, Pressly is never seen doing anything other than finding the landing zone on Ilos and is summarily killed off at the very beginning of the second game.
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in ''[[Star Wars]]'': The [[Cool Ship|Millenium Falcon]] and its crew are so small that anything that happens to it involves everyone on board. One assumes Han and Chewie take turns flying and sleeping.
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*** Lampshaded on one occasion where O'Neill gets in, from leave, just as an Offworld Activation is going on. Teal'c, Daniel, and Sam are already in the control room. O'Neill points out that he just got in ''early'', and asks what the others are doing there. Teal'c still lives on base at this point, Daniel says he came in as soon as he heard someone new was dialing in (though it's implied he never left the base), and Sam...well, she had been working so late that ''she hadn't left yet''. This distresses O'Neill, who had apparently ordered her to get a life.
* A throwaway line [[Early Installment Weirdness|early on]] in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' once references an officer who mans the control center during the night shift, as part of an attempt to avert this trope. That said, we never see or hear of that officer outside that one line, and whenever we see [[The Bridge|Command and Control]] during the night, it is almost always being run by [[The Lancer|Commander Ivanova]] and [[Bridge Bunnies|Lieutenant Corwin]].
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' City Watch novels, where Vimes's insistance that he's always on duty is the despair of his wife, Carrot is always on duty because Vimes is, and Nobby and Colon are sufficient [[Weirdness Magnet|Weirdness Magnets]] that they'll be the first ones in the middle of a bizarre situation even when they ''are'' off duty.
* The various lieutenants of homicide who appeared on ''[[Perry Mason]]'' seemed to show up at every murder (or, occasionally, suicide) that occurred in [[Los Angeles|L. A.]], despite the time of day or night.
* Jack Webb did his best to avert this in ''[[Dragnet (Radio)|Dragnet]]'' and ''[[Adam-12]]''. It is made clear that our main characters are one team out of many working one shift out of many and that just as much happens off-camera as on. Similarly averted on ''[[Emergency]]''.
 
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