Object
Caviar (Unhatched Eggs)
A small, glossy portion of unhatched fish eggs—pearlescent black-to-amber beads—served chilled in a shallow dish with a faint marine brine scent. Each bead glints under the dining-room light; grains cling to spoons or fingers and leave a slick, oily residue on glassware. At the captain's formal table it sits as an ostentatious delicacy: offered, tasted, or used as a conversational prop while diners recoil, joke, or deliberate politeness. Characters lift it tentatively, sniff, or exchange barbed remarks around it, and the item actively shapes the social tone of the exchange.
2 appearances
Purpose
Served as an edible luxury condiment/appetizer intended to be sampled at a formal dinner; functions practically as food to taste and share.
Significance
Operates as a cultural touchstone and conversational trigger that sharpens the dinner's social friction: its presence foregrounds status, taste, and cultural difference and becomes a focal point for Kurn's provocation and the test of Worf's standing within Starfleet society.
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