A Cardassian serialist poet who was driven into exile and lived for a time on Vulcan, where the shy Trill engineer Tobin Dax made his acquaintance.
Iloja of Prim was a Cardassian poet of the serialist school who lived during the lifetime of Tobin Dax. His work evidently displeased the authorities of his day, for he was exiled from Cardassia and spent part of that exile on Vulcan.
He is mentioned in the Deep Space Nine episode Destiny. When the Cardassian scientists Ulani Belor and Gilora Rejal come aboard to help build a subspace relay through the wormhole, Jadzia Dax breaks the ice at dinner by recalling that Tobin, the second host of the Dax symbiont, met Iloja on Vulcan. The visitors are delighted that a Starfleet officer knows the name, and the exchange hints at a richer Cardassian culture than the military regime usually shows.
Iloja is never seen and none of his verse is quoted.