The Klingon Way

How does Star Trek manage to make a goofy book about manly man aliens and their warrior culture and not make me reflexively pull back? It's too pure and wholesome to be toxic masculinity, but I don't know if I can put my finger on why it works where similar works leave me sickened.

I found the audiobook to this, and I'm assuming like just about all of them from back then, it was an abridged version. But the substance was still pretty good - it takes sayings, proverbs or the like from various times or series that a klingon might have said, and explains it in terms of Klingon history or behavior. It's a nice behind the scenes look to the culture. The audiobook though, for as good and cool to have the two main Klingons narrating it from the year this came out - Worf and B'Elanna - it was kind of on the boring side.