Dorvan V

The inhabited planet Dorvan V was home to a Federation colony hosting a distinct Human culture during the mid- to late 24th century. It contained at least one continent, as well as mountains and rivers. Facilities included a habak.
Around 2350, a group of North American Indians settled the planet, building a village in a small valley on the southern continent. This settlement occurred despite being warned that it was hotly disputed by the Cardassians. The group had left Earth two hundred years before, in order to preserve their cultural identities, and had been searching for a new world ever since. They settled on Dorvan because the planet did not only have the right environmental conditions, but also was perceived as being welcoming in a spiritual way.
In 2370, after a long three years of drawn out negotiations, the Federation-Cardassian Treaty defined the final status of the border between the Federation and the Cardassian Union. The new border placed several Federation colonies in Cardassian space and vice versa. One of these Federation colonies, which Starfleet planned to evacuate, was Dorvan V. This occurred despite an Indian representative being included in the deliberations of the Federation Council, and objecting. It was felt that the Dorvan settlers were a ic group that should never have settled on a disputed planet in the first place.
Shortly thereafter, Starfleet sent the to relocate the settlers. Anticipating the possibility that they would refuse removal, its orders were to remove them by whatever means are necessary. The settlers indeed elected to stay, explaining that the place had a deep spiritual significance for them. A resolution to the conflict was reached when the colonists renounced Federation citizenship and agreed to be governed by the Cardassian government. ()
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=== Background information ===
This planet's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of the Cardassian Union as seen in the star chart appearing in the episode .
The producers of originally intended Dorvan V to be Chakotay's homeworld. () Although this idea was not established during Voyagers run, the Voyager relaunch s state that Chakotay and his family were native to Dorvan V. However, established Chakotay's colony to have been established centuries ago, which does not appear to be consistent with , which stated that the settlers had been on Dorvan for about twenty years. Even though Picard's statement "Dorvan Five? Isn't that where the group of North American Indians settled?" to some degree implies that Dorvan is unique, Chakotay would seem to originate from a second planet of American Indians in the DMZ. Later, canonically established that Chakotay's colony was the planet Trebus, a name previously given in the novel Pathways.
The date the settlers left Earth can be constrained with some accuracy. It was said that the settlers left Earth "more than two hundred years ago", but also that they had searched for the planet for "almost two hundred years". Given that the settlers had been on the planet for "about twenty years", they must have left Earth roughly between 181 and 219 years ago, or between 2151 and 2189. Interestingly, this is consistent with the , a ship with Native American inspired naming that was launched in 2187.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 47) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), the Dorvan system was a binary system with a G-class star and a K-class star. In the late 24th century, it was an independent system.
The classified Dorvan V as a M-class planet.
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