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I greatly enjoy the fact that in Trek every culture is an island unto itself. Trek is, after all, a better universe than our own in many ways. You can appreciate and respect another culture and way of life without having to go full klingweeb into it. You can also judge it for its failings, which is something Trek does as well. It is sane and rational to make assumptions on how a Klingon or Ferengi will behave, even if there are rare exceptions among the species.

In practical terms, it's simply too redundant to try and depict every race having fanboys of every other race. What would be the point? Do we really need to see a Benzite who collects Bolian pogs? An Antedian who's really into Nausicaan limericks? Such a line of throwaway dialogue might exist, but there's no need to turn it into a full on characterization. It's enough that cross-culture fascination tends to come in the form of archeological mysteries.