Starfleet Cultural Affairs

Cultural affairs is a division of Starfleet. Admiral Upton worked in Cultural affairs in 2379 when he ordered Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the USS Enterprise-E to deal with a developing civil war on Delta Sigma IV. (TNG novels A Time to Love and A Time to Hate)

Cultural affairs was sometimes considered not to be of much importance (at least by then presidential candidate Nanietta Bacco. (TNG novel A Time for War, A Time for Peace)