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</div>Pierre had been only just started readying the cooking equipment for the day, removing it from the various secured cabinets, cupboards and drawers when the call came from the bridge about a possible contact to be investigated. The few items he'd readied now went beck immediately into storage, in case the ship had to go through some violent maneuvers. Still he did need a few items and tools out to feed the crew.<br/><br/>The Ship's Cook would be preparing "simple" sandwiches and a hot beverage, coffee for most of the humans and barley tea for the Mrinka. The sandwich filling would be a nutritional paste (initially as flavorful as papier mache' glue), into which the Chef folded some additional ingredients and flavors. It was in no way 'haute cuisine' but easily as edible as any planet-side 'fast food'. With the portions supplying six hundred calories, the effects of hunger would be delayed as much as if the crew had eaten a regular meal.<br/><br/>By the time Pierre was finished preparing things, almost all of the crew would be on the bridge. The service cart had three tiers. He boxed the sandwiches in small washable containers that were just the right size and placed them into the middle tier. When the drinks were brewed, they were poured into the heat retaining thermal sipper containers and were placed in the space on the top tier. He locked the cart into place, cleaned the equipment that he used and re-stowed everything else back into place. Now he would wait until the order was given for him to bring the meal up to the bridge.<br/><br/>No sense in counting one's chickens before they hatched but when the encounter with the contact was resolved, perhaps there would be some good quality food stuffs that could go into the galley lockers?