Dark Mirror (1993)
“Riker chuckled a little while setting it up. “A buffet briefing,” he said; “this might be setting a dangerous precedent.” Picard smiled. “If civilization is the ability to slide gracefully into customs not our own,” he said, “let’s get out there and slide.” Food at the briefing was simply courtesy to their guest. While there were species who did not discuss business over food, most of the cetaceans, except under most unusual circumstances, didn’t discuss business without food. To them, food was... business—had been, for a long time, the only business they had. Everything else—song, love, birth, death—was counted play—in much the same way, scientists theorized, as Earth’s cetaceans had regarded the universe centuries before. When Triton’s cetacean species came into the Federation and discovered all the other kinds of business there were, they dove into them gladly, but they insisted on taking a lunch.MoreLess
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