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Perhaps a gruesome topic, but what are some examples of sentient species which practice cannibalism and/or eat other sentient species (if any)?
I added humanoid to the title, in case someone wanted to claim that the Crystalline Entity was sentient and also ate people.
Species 1: You are knowingly eating a sentient, thinking being.
Species 2: Yes, and it is delicious.
In the Star Trek The Next Generation episode Lonely Among Us there are two species being transported on board from warring races. There is a lot of animosity between the two races throughout the entire episode, and at the end there is a strong implication that the Anticans had killed and were about to eat one of the Selay delegates.
First the implication of them having eaten an "interesting animal":
TASHA: I must ask where you were during this vessel's Earth hours of eighteen hundred last night and zero seven hundred this morning.
ANTICAN: Eating.
TASHA: Sir, we're talking about hours here.
ANTICAN: It was a large meal, Lieutenant Yar. And a very interesting animal.
At the end of the episode Tasha implies that the Anticans are about to make a meal of another delegate:
TASHA: It's good to see you, sir. The problem is that one of the cooks has just been asked to broil reptile for the Anticans, and it looks like the Selay delegate.
(Picard in brilliant fashion turns this problem over to Riker in a jovial manner of course).
While the actual act of eating isn't shown, and in fact there is only the implication and not a direct statement of fact, it is obvious that Tasha believes that it is more than likely that one of the Anticans could eat one of the Selays. Enough so to bring up the fact to her captain. So whether they did eat them or not in this case, the implication answers the question about whether it happens with a resounding; yes.
In the Deep Space 9 episode Blood Oath some old Klingon buddies of Curzon's show up on the station and recruit Dax to hunt down an old enemy. As said foe was nearing defeat, he makes mention of a Klingon tradition, that the Klingons will cut out his heart and eat it:
"This time, we will reach the Albino! And when we do, I will cut his heart out and eat it, while he watches me with his dying breath!" - Kang
Which establishes that Klingons will normally kill their enemies and then consume their vanquished foe's heart.
The Kzinti are featured in the Star Trek TAS "Slaver Weapon" episode which Larry Niven adapted from his tales of known space into the fourteenth show of the 1973 animated Star Trek series. While no longer considered to be ST canon, Kzinti were sentient, bipedal, and not at all adverse to eating their sentient meat-eating enemies. In fact, they were known to maintain hunting preserves and stock them with adversaries for sport.
I know this is stretching it, but my first thoughts were of the salt-eater in the original series' The Man Trap. The creature is bipedal, sneaky and the professor claims it demonstrates true affection for him. Wikipedia says it thus, "The creature reverts to its true alien appearance and starts to feed on Kirk."
I had thought the original intention behind the Ferengi was to make them interested in eating other species, and when I was searching for a source for that, I found a few examples mentioned when someone asked the same question on Wikia.
In "Encounter at Farpoint", Picard does indeed make a quip about the Ferengi finding their past associates to be "tasty". However, of course, Ferengi were later retconned to be not as ruthless and savage as they were first depicted in "The Last Outpost", and Memory Alpha claims that:
This discrepancy was at least partly explained in the novel The Buried Age, a flashback novel looking at Picard's career between the destruction of the Stargazer and assuming command of the Enterprise-D, which explains that the supposedly threatening nature of the Ferengi in early TNG was a product of disinformation; viewing the Federation's moneyless economic structure as a sign of insanity, the Grand Nagus ordered a military buildup and sanctioned the spread of malicious rumors so that when they did make contact, it would be from a position of strength.
making it unlikely that Ferengi actually ate other species.
The second instance mentioned was that of "Survival Instinct", where Seven of Nine and other Borg drones eat another (albeit already dead) drone for sustenance.
