Dozaria Dozaria was an inhabited desert planet , located near the Cardassian Union and the Breen Confederacy . It was the only class M planet in the Dozaria system . In 2366 , Cardassian prison transport " Ravinok " was attacked by Breen warships and forced down on Dozaria . The Breen then used the survivors as laborers in a nearby dilithium mining camp on the planet . In 2372 , Major Kira Nerys got word from her old friend Razka Karn that there might have been survivors , and that he had reason to believe that they were on Dozaria . After Legate Dukat was forced to go with her , she took a runabout to the planet and found the remains of the " Ravinok " . Just outside the ship , she found the burials of the crew members who had died in the crash , both Cardassian and Bajoran . The next morning , Kira and Dukat found the prison camp and infiltrated it , finding Dukat ' s daughter Tora Ziyal . Kira discovered that her friend , Lorit Akrem , had died several years earlier . ( ) Dozaria was one of the places that could be visited through the Iconian gateway on Vandros IV . ( ) Appendices . Background information . " doe - zar - EE - uh " was the pronunciation for the Dozaria system ' s name from the script pronunciation guide . The planet was not named in the episode ; it was named by and the . In " Indiscretion " , this planet was represented via use of filming location Soledad Canyon , which required the shooting company to undergo extreme weather conditions . " " It was brutally , brutally , brutally hot out there in the rock quarry , " " noted Director LeVar Burton . The site included a lot of very fine gravel that looked like sand . " " There was this huge , three - story mound of gravel in the quarry , " " Producer Steve Oster reported . Also , the production team added sand , in order to cover up the sides of two massive set pieces that represented parts of the " Ravinok " s hull . ( " " , pp . 275 & 276 ; " Star Trek Encyclopedia " ( 4th ed . , vol . 1 , p . 217 ) ) There were fears over landslides in Soledad Canyon , which made burying the pair of set pieces difficult . The risk was specifically with the huge mound of gravel . " " If you went up to the base of it and put your foot in it , part of it would come down , " " Steve Oster remembered . " " There was a lot of concern about that , and while construction was going on , we were constantly aware of it . " " Ultimately , the mountain stayed put and didn ' t collapse . ( " " , pp . 276 - 277 ) Due to the concerns regarding landslides , interior scenes set on Dozaria , such as in an underground mine , were filmed at Paramount ' s soundstages . The mine was additionally illustrated in a concept sketch by John Eaves , dated . ( " " , pp . 277 & 275 ) The use of a filming location to depict Dozaria in " Indiscretion " pleased Ira Steven Behr . He enthused , " " It was nice to be on location for that show . I thought it worked . " " ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 107 ) He also described it as a " nice location . " ( " ' Indiscretion ' Datafile " , " " , No . 4 ) According to " " ( p . 46 ) and " " ( " Federation Historical Highlights , 2161 - 2385 " ) , the Dozaria system was located in the Alpha Quadrant . The system ' s primary was a .