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Also see [[Alien Catnip]].

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== Comic Books ==

* In the [[Marvel Comics]] series ''[[Strikeforce: Morituri]]'', the alien [[Planet Looters]] find chocolate to be a powerful intoxicant.

 

== Film ==

* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s [[Technic History]], Nick van Rijn heads the Solar Spice and Liquors Company. Of course, Old Nick has his pudgy (but very strong) fingers in a lot of other profitable endeavors, as well.

* Ordinary ginger turns out to be an addictive drug and aphrodisiac to the reptilian Race in [[Harry Turtledove]]'s Worldwar series. The setting isn't [[Space Opera]], but trade ends up developing fast.

 

== Literature ==

** In the [[X Wing Series]], the Rogues have to talk a glitbiter—someone who regularly takes glitterstim and shows it - via hologram, and the glitbiter apparently forgets that he's using a hologram. Glitterstim telepathy doesn't work on someone who's aware of the glitbiter's ability and hostile, so because this guy couldn't read Rogue Leader, he got defensive.

 

* The 1984 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "The Caves of Androzani" featured a textbook example ("spectrox", a life-prolonging substance), with the added twist that the unrefined stuff was extremely toxic.

* In ''[[Firefly]]'', regular spices are prized as much as they were in olden times due to the bland flavor of packaged protein that most space crews eat. Shepherd Book notes, "A man can live on packaged food from here 'til Judgment Day if he's got enough rosemary."

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** On the Commonwealth side, we have Stott Spices and Massom Powder.

*** Between the 3 major spice selling powers however, Terran Spices are the most valuable of the flavorings. And the Split and Boron are at war with one to compete as the other dominant spice selling group.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]

[[Category:Alien Tropes]]