Soukara was an inhabited planet in the Soukara system. During the Dominion War, this planet was in Dominion-controlled space and was the location for a Dominion base. The planet had at least two moons and a nearby asteroid field, which could be used to penetrate the Dominion sensor grid undetected. The base was located in the middle of a jungle, and was protected by transport scramblers.
In 2374, Worf and Jadzia Dax were sent on a covert mission to Soukara to recover a Cardassian defector, Lasaran, who claimed to know the location and false identity of every Founder in the Alpha Quadrant. Unfortunately, Dax was severely injured by a Jem'Hadar patrol, and Worf chose to abort the mission to seek medical care for her. Starfleet Intelligence later intercepted a transmission confirming Lasaran was killed trying to re-enter the Dominion base on Soukara. (DS9: "Change of Heart")
Later that year, Romulan Senator Vreenak met with Weyoun on Soukara. On the way back to Romulus, he took a secret detour to Deep Space 9 at Captain Benjamin Sisko's request. Some time after leaving Deep Space 9, Vreenak was killed, along with his staff, when a bomb planted on his shuttle by former Obsidian Order operative Elim Garak detonated, as part of a Federation plot to deceive the Romulan Star Empire to break its non-aggression pact with the Dominion. The Tal Shiar, upon investigating the wreckage, recovered a badly damaged Cardassian optolythic data rod containing evidence the Dominion was planning to invade Romulus; unaware of Vreenak's detour to Deep Space 9 or that the evidence was in fact a forgery commissioned by Garak and Sisko as part of the plan, the Tal Shiar incorrectly concluded that Vreenak must have obtained the evidence on Soukara, and the Dominion assassinated him before he could expose them when he returned to Romulus (with their subsequent denials only adding veracity to the Romulans' conclusion). As a result, the Romulan Star Empire broke its non-aggression pact and formally declared war on the Dominion. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")
According to the script for "Change of Heart", the pronunciation for Soukara was "sue-KAR-uh".
External link[]
- Soukara at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works